46 ERYTHEA. 



The sixth fascicle of the Phycotheca Boreali-Araericana, Nos. 

 251 to 300, has just been issued by Messrs. Collins, Holden, 

 and Setchell. The Californian species are represented as follows: 

 278, Colpomenia sinuosa (Roth) Derb. et Sol.; 279, Desmarestia 

 latifrons Kuetz. ; 281, Chordaria abietina Rupr.; and Melobesia am- 

 plexifrons Haro. A notable feature of this fascicle is the number of 

 rare species from Florida which are distributed. 



Information has recently come to us of the death, on February 

 28, of Dr. L. N. Johnson, who is familiar to American botanists as 

 our foremost worker on the Demids. 



Another volume from the pen of Prof. L. H. Bailey is at hand. 

 "The Survival of the Unlike" is a collection of evolution essays, 

 which were originally addressed to horticultural societies, and in the 

 preparation of which the author had in mind their final collation 

 and publication in book form. The first two parts are concerned 

 with the general theory of evolution as suggested by a study of 

 cultivated plants; the third part is devoted to essays tracing the 

 evolution of particular types of plants. The titles of some of these 

 essays are as follows: "Whence Came the Cultivated Strawberry?" 

 "The Battle of the Plums," "The Evolution of the American 

 Grapes," "The Amelioration of the Garden -Tomato." The whole 

 volume will be found a most readable one. $2.00. Macmillan 

 & Co., New York. 



