3^ The Botanical Gazette. [January, 



Lamson-Scribner. It covers eighteen pages, and appeaas very com- 

 plete. The other botanical articles are short, and part are in abstract. 

 They are as follows: Preliminary notes upon the rotting of potatoes, 

 by 1. J. Burrill; Scab of wheat heads, by Clarence M. Weed, describ- 

 ing a Fusisponum; Recent observations on black rot of the grape, and 

 comparative test of copper preparations for black rot of the grape, by 

 B. 1. Galloway; Some fungus root diseases, by L. H. Pammel. The 

 abstracts are: Forage problem of the plains, by C. E. Bessey; Rots of 

 the sweet potato, by B. D. Halsted; Cucurbita an American genus, by 



L. L. bturtevant; Some biographical factors in the nutrition of plants, 

 by M. Miles. 



The Indiana Academy of Sciences met at Indianapolis December 

 29-31. The botanical papers announced were as follows: Stanley 

 Coulter, Preliminary note on the genus Polygonum, Aberrant fruit of 



^/n mgra ' Value of minute anatomy in plant classification; D. T. 

 MeDougal, Aberrant forms of Juglans nigra; David M. Mottier, Notes 

 on the apical growth of liverworts, Notes on the germination of spores 

 of Notothylas; /. C. Arthur, A remarkable oscillating movement of 

 protoplasm in a Mucor, Accelerating germination bv previous immer- 

 sion of the seed in hot water; Henry E. Seaton, Notes on Guatemalan 

 Compositae; E. M. Fisher, Parasitic fungi of Indiana; John Morgan, 

 Circulation of sap;/ N. Rose, Distribution of Peucedanum in N. Am., 

 Plants collected by Dr. Palmer in Arizona in 1890; D. H. Campbell 

 Comparative structure of the roots of Osmunda and Botrychium, 

 Notes on the prothallium of the Osmundaceae; H. L. Boiler, Notes on 

 a new Puccinia, On the manufacture of plant infusions for the culture 

 «>t bacteria; IV. P. Shannon, The occurrence of Veratrum Woodii in 

 l.)ecatur Co., \nd.; Joseph H. Tudor, Some features in the occurrence 

 ot Viola pedata, var. bicolor; W.J. Spillman, Preliminary list of Knox 

 Co. plants. Introduction of noxious weeds; Katherine E. Golden. 

 Weight ot seed in relation to production; John M. Coulter, Biological 

 surveys, The flora of Texas. 









