VOL. XVI. 



January, 1891 



No. 1 



THE 



Botanical Gazette 



EDITORS: 



JOHN M. COULTER, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind. 



CHARLES R. BARNES, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 



J. C. ARTHUR, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. 



B T A N I C 



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CONTENTS: 



Undescribed plants from Guatemala, VIII. (with plates I-II).— John Donnell Smith . 



On certain new or peculiar North American Hyphomycetes, I. (with plates III-IV). 

 Roland Thaxter 



New grasses .— Geo. Vasey - 



Briefer Articles 27. 



Actinella (Hvmenoxis) Texana, n. sp.: 

 John M. Coulter and/, N. Rose.— Anaes- 

 thetics and transpiration : Conway Mac 

 Millan. 



Editorial 28 



Themes for independent investigation. 



Current Literature 20 



A general treatise upon fungi. — The 

 Silva of North America . — Plants as rock- 

 makers . — Minor notices . 



The word ' 4 biology. " —Labeling speci- 

 mens for the herbarium. 



Notes and News 



Piperacese of Ecuador .—Sugar in fungi. 

 — Morong's return.— Arctic plant in 

 alpine regions.— tk Heating" of pota- 

 toes. — Leguminosae and nitrogen. — 

 Canadian botanists' correspondence as- 

 sociation.— Teaching botany.— Conju- 

 gation of Spirogyra.— Britton on N. A. 

 Phanerogams . — Proceedings S . P . A . S. 

 — Indiana Academy of Sciences. 



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