5^ The Botanical Gazette. [February, 



observations recorded in this volume were made in middle Germany 

 and in the lower and higher regions of the Tyrol, in the years 1886- 

 1888. 171 pages are devoted to a consideration of the adaptations of 

 different flowers, which are taken up in their natural order, there be- 

 ing 187 species belonging to thirty-eight families. After many of the 

 larger families there are summaries of the results. Pages 172-224 are 

 devoted to. several topics which the author has reserved for special 

 consideration. Thus on pages 203-224 the author gives a list of per- 

 forated flowers which he found in two years, i887-'8, stating the posi- 

 tion of the perforations and the insects which make them. The list 

 contains about 160 flowers, 125 of them being perforated by a single 

 species of bumble-bee, Bombus terrestris. — R. 



The Missouri Botanic Garden. 

 A hand-book of the Missouri Botanical Garden has just been issued, 

 which in a very handsome and elaborate way gives the objects of the 

 Garden and School of Botany, and the principal steps which have thus 

 far been taken to forward them. The book contains 165 pages and is 

 issued under the editorial supervision of Dr. Trelease. There are nu- 

 merous handsome illustrations and a large scale map of the Garden. In 

 addition to the presentation of the facts of organization and plans of 

 work the book contains Mr. Thomas Dimmock's biographical sketch 

 of Mr. Henry Shaw; Mr. Shaw's will; Dr. Trelease's inaugural address; 

 the first annual "flower sermon "by the Rt. Rev. Daniel S. Turtle, 

 Bishop of Missouri; and the speeches at the first annual banquet. 



Minor Notices. 



THAT important work, Die Natu, lichen Pflanzenfamilien, has now 

 reached heferung 54, which contains a continuation of Composite by 

 Hoffman. The genera are brought up to Achillea, which is no. 54 S- 

 1 he North American genera are very much as Dr. Gray left them, and 

 American work in general has been adopted. This may be explained 

 in some cases by lack of material for verification. 



Part .1 of the Proceedings of Philadelphia Academv of Science for 

 1890 has been distributed and contains the following botanical titles: 

 Descriptions of three new species of Myxomycetes, with notes on other 

 forms in Century XXV of the N. A. F., by Geo. A. Rex; New N. 

 Am. fungi, by/ B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart; and Contributions to 

 the hfe-histones of plants, No. 5, by Thos. Meehan. The contents 

 of Mr. Meehan s contribution have been noted in this journal (xv. 



Messrs. Lazknby and Werner, of the Ohio State University, have 

 published a supplementary list to the Beardslee catalogue of Ohio 





