156 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 



Under the editorship of Prof. L. H. Bailey, the American Gar- 

 den has become the sprightliest and most readable of the journals of its 

 class. 



The first bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station of 

 North Dakota deals with grain smuts, a contribution bv the Botanist. 

 Mr. H. L. Bolley. 



In the first of the Beihefte zum Botanisches Centralblatt F. Ludwig 

 gives a resume of the papers appearing during 1890 on the relation be- 

 tween plants and snails. 



Professor John M. Coulter has been elected President of the 

 State University of Indiana, and will enter upon his duties at Bloom- 

 ington next September. 



In Journal of Botany (March), Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell gives some ac- 

 count of the conspicuous European weeds that have become natural- 

 ized in the United States. * 



A popular volume by M. C. Cooke, on the subject of edible fungi, 

 will be issued shortly. It will be of a moderate size and price, and 

 wdl contain colored plates of forty-four edible species. 



M. A. Lothelier has shown by experiments that plants like Ber- 

 beris or Hawthorn produce spines more freely in direct proportion to 

 the degree in which they are exposed to the light.— Gard. Chron. 



Dr. Edward Palmer has recently returned from a three months 

 collecting trip at Manzamlla and Colima, Mexico, having obtained 

 about 500 species. These species will be reported upon by the botanists 

 of the Department of Agriculture. 



In an account in the Botaniska Notiser of European Uredineae 

 occurring at Quito, J. G. Lagerheim describes a new parasite of Puc- 

 cmia grammis, which he calls Fusarium Uredinis. It attacks the 

 uredosori, giving them a pinkish color. 



In American Garden (March), Mr. Walter Deane gives an interesting 

 and illustrated account of the native orchids of New England. Every 

 species seems to be mentioned and in a very readable way by one who 

 knows them well in their native haunts. 



Four species of North American plants have become established in 

 the vicinity of Pavia, Italy, according to M. Bozzi (Atti. Soc. Ital. Sc. 

 Nat., xxxi, p. 281). They are Oxybaphus nvctagineus, Commelina Vir- 

 ginia, Elodea Canadensis and Azolla Caroliniana. 



The summer course m botany at Harvard University will begin at 

 the Botanic Gardens June 29, and continue five weeks It will be un- 

 der the instruction of Mr. W. R Ganong, Instructor in Botany, and 

 Mr. G. 1?. Pierce, Assistant in Botany, in Harvard University. 



Dr. Douglas H. Campbell has been appointed Associate Profes- 

 sor of Botany at the new Stanford University of California. As the 

 Pacific slope is already well supplied with workers in systematic botany, 

 that subject will not be represented At present in the new University. - 



