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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



The last "Beiblatt" (No. 7.) of the cryptogamic journal 

 Hedwigia, just issued, contains an index of all new fungi 

 (both genera and species) published between the date of 

 issue of the last volume of Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum 

 and January 1, 1896. Forty-three new species are listed from 

 California. The Agarics head the list with nineteen species 

 and the Fungi Imperfecti (Sphseropsidese and Hyphomy- 

 cetes) follow with thirteen, the Gasteromycetes have two new 

 species, the Pyrenomycetes and the Myxomycetes three each, 

 and the Uredinese, Peronosporese and the Chytridese one 

 each. The work done at present upon our Californian spe- 

 cies, seems to be chiefly the collecting of material and send- 

 ing it away to be determined, thus bringing into existence a 

 host of names, new and old, fastened upon our territory, which 

 will be just one more^obstacle in the way of the student who 

 may at some time be willing to go more slowly and more 

 surely in studying our species from a developmental point of 

 view. 



A POPULAR edition of Sir John Lubbock's "A Contribution 

 to our Knowledge of Seedlings " has been issued by Kegan, 

 Paul & Co., London, England. To those who desire to be- 

 come acquainted with the conclusions arrived at by the au- 

 thor this edition will doubtless be welcome. 



A PORTRAIT of Professor A. Cogniaux of Verviers, Belgium, 

 appeared in the Journal des Orchidees for February 16. M. 

 Cogniaux who is well known as an authority on the Cucurbi- 

 taceae and Melastomacefe, and who has issued monographs of 

 these orders, is now devoting his energies to the Orchidacese. 



The death is announced of Prof. M. Lawson of Madras, 

 formerly Professor of Botany at Oxford University, and a 

 contributor to Hooker's Flora of British India. 



The Bulleiin de UHerhier Boissier for February pub- 

 lishes a portrait of the late Jean Muller, the lichenologist, 

 accompanied by a notice of his life and works. 



