MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 39 



Mr. Geo. Hansen of Jackson, California, has issued a 

 volume on " Orchid Hybrids " which is an " enumeration 

 and classification of all hybrids of orchids " published up 

 to October 15, 1895. The book is dedicated to Dr. Maxwell 

 T. Masters, Editor of the Gardeners'' Chronicle. The con- 

 tents include a review of the work accomplished and infer- 

 ences for future work; the characters of the flowers of 

 orchids; a list of the people who raise orchids; remarks 

 respecting the genera and species employed in raising 

 hybrids; synonymy; a key; and a list of hybrids. The author 

 expects to issue supplements from time to time. The volume 

 should certainly be of great interest to orchid-growers. 



De. Ernst Stizenberger, the well-known lichenologist 

 and a contributor to the pages of this journal, died in Kon- 

 stanz, Germany, Sept. 27, 1895. 



Dr. Francis P. Porcher, an able and well-known physician 

 and botanist, died in Charleston, S. C, Nov. 20th. In the 

 capacity of an army-pbysician he held a high position with 

 the Confederate government. His celebrated work on 

 " Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests," published 

 during the Civil War, was of immense practical service to the 

 people of the South enabling them during the years of the 

 blockade to utilize natural and cultivated products in the 

 absence of all imports. 



Mr. 0. G. Lloyd has distributed No. 8 of his series of 

 " Photogravures of American Fungi." This plate represents 

 Urnula craierium and is equal in excellence to those pre- 

 viously issued. 



Professor W. A. Setchell, of the Department of Botany 

 of the University of California, devoted three weeks of 

 December and January to an examination of the marine flora 

 of the Southern Californian coast near San Pedro. 



Professor D. H. Campbell published in December, under 

 the title of " The Structure and Development of the Mosses 

 and Ferns," the results of his investigations among the 

 Archegoniatae. A review of the work will appear in our 

 March issue. 



