5 8 The Botanical Gazette. [February, 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Prof. Dr. W. P. Wilson has recently been elected a member of the 

 German Botanical Society. 



R. v. Wettstein shows by the intermediate stages that each of the 

 stammodes of Parnassia palustris represents a single stamen. 



Thouvenin after an exhaustive study of the Saxifragacese savs that 

 there is not a single anatomical character which is constant. 



Prof. Dr. H. Mueller-Thurgau of Geisenheim has been appointed 

 director of the German-Swiss experiment station and school for fruit, 

 wine, and garden culture at Wadensweil near Zurich. 



An old letter of Persoon's is published in the Am. Naturalist 

 (Dec.) It was found in a copy of Persoon's "Synopsis Methodica 



Mingorum, recently purchased for the University of Nebraska. 



Prof. Frank finds Robinia Pseudacacia capable of utilizing free 

 nitrogen, like the other Leguminosse. In the roots of four plants 125 

 days old were 0.092 gm. of N, as against 0.0024 gm. in the seed sowed. 



Prof. Dr. T 



ship of the plant physiological station at Geisenheim on February 1. 

 1 he station is a department of the royal institute of fruit and wine 



culture. 



spruce. 



A new genus of Uredineae, Barclayella, is described by Dr. Dietel 

 in a late number of Hedwigia (xxix, p. 266). It is related to Chry- 

 somyxa and Coleospormm. Only teleutospores are known. The single 

 species described occurs in the western Himalayas, parasitic upon 



Hugo de Vries has succeeded in obtaining for several successive 



years an increasing number of sterile plants of maize by sowing grain 



rorn the most poorly productive plants. He concludes, therefore, 



that sterility in the case under consideration is a hereditary quality 



susceptible of fixation. J H 



m^JL&Tm^ £?£**> T^ ot ? s some botan >' that ha s found its way 



Petition « t£ Vll H ge PS^^ U is §° od eno ^ h to bear 

 vtlSi ?«", F» rden had been ne g Je cted ... his roles had re- 



verted to type and bore suckers of bramble and large-eyed roses." 

 1 his reversion to type took place in a couple of month! or so. 



Mr. C. G. Pr ingle's last season's collection is being determined at 

 Cambridge preparatory to the distribution of sets. The work was 

 pushed farther south than ever before, and, as a consequence, the col- 

 lection contains an unusual number of novelties. As soon as the sets 

 of 1890 are distributed Mr. Pringle intends to return to Mexico. 



The editors and publishers of the Botanisches Centralblatt announce 

 ^JS?3S?Sf fell' SC K eS ° f su PP ,emen ts to the journal in order 



ill l»\ V ^ fnUer abstracts of «** ^orks. These supplements 

 Will each contain 80 pp. and seven will appear annually, increasing the 



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