94 ERYTHEA. 



"Cascadel Ranch is forty-five miles from the post-office and corner 

 grocery. The trees are so thick, that one can scarcely look heaven- 

 ward. The loneliness comes like a heavy pressure from all sides. 

 People come to this region, because Uncle Sam offers one hundred 

 and sixty acres to old maids and widows and other citizens. . . . 

 After a long stay Mr. P. went down the mountain one day and we 

 rode with him about three miles. We swung our hammocks to 

 some small trees. that grew on a high bluff, where we could see out 

 over the world once more, there to await the return of the team at 

 evening and look our fill for months to come. Across the gulch we 

 saw some white flowers on a shrub and went to get them. The 

 shrub was very graceful in shape, with gray bark, slender branches 

 and white flowers in clusters on long greenish-white stems. The 

 altitude was about 4,500 feet, with a southwest exposure, the ground 

 moist but not wet. Seldom does one see such a sight as the shrub 

 presents when in full bloom." — Mrs. L. A. R. Peckinpah, Cascadel 

 Ranch, Madera Co., California. 



NEWS NOTES AND CURRENT COMMENT. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, who is well known as a forestry expert, 

 has been appointed chief of the Division of Forestry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 resignation of Dr. Fernow. 



Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Breslau, Germany, died suddenly of heart disease, on June 

 25, at the age of 60. Dr. Cohn was known as the author of 

 several botanical works, among them Die Pflanze, and was much 

 interested in the study of bacteria and parasitic fungi. He was 

 one of the fifty foreign members of the Linnean Society of London. 



— J. B. D. 



The death is also announced of Dr. Johan Lauge, Emeritus 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

 Professor Lange was especially interested in systematic phanero- 

 gamic botany. He was a foreign member of the Linnean Society 

 of London, and a Corresponding Member of the Academie Interna- 

 tionale de Geographie Botanique. — J. B- d. 



