1891.] Notes and News. 297 



The other is the California Botanical Club, organized in San Fran- 

 cisco March 5, much more pretentious in point of membership, its 

 roll bearing at last accounts one hundred and twenty-five names. On 

 the list are the names of some well-known botanists of the Pacific 

 Coast; but the majority are ladies who are interested in ferns and 

 flowers. The club has a field of usefulness, 111 teaching and interesting 

 in botany those who have leisure, and thus enlisting a larger number 

 in the work of collecting and exploration — a work which is, in this 

 state, only well begun. — Willis L. Jepson, Berkeley, Cal. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor Dr. Goebel has accepted a call to the University of 

 Munich as Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden. 



Mr. Arthur Lister, in Journal of Botany (Sept.), has published 



some notes on Mycetozoa, accompanied by four plates. The paper is 

 a notice of the species not included in Dr. Cooke's " Myxomycetes of 

 Great Britain," and contains the description of three new species. 



The herbarium of the late Dr. C. C. Parry has now been arranged 

 for sale, together with an extensive library of botanical works. A 

 catalogue has been issued, which shows 6,780 species, represented by 

 about 18,000 specimens. Of these 5,290 species are North American. 

 Full information can be obtained from Mrs. K. R. Parry, Davenport. 

 Iowa. 



In answer to a request from the city council of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture detailed Prof. J. C. Arthur, as an 

 agent of the Forestry Division, to examine into the causes ot in- 

 injury and death of the shade trees of that city. His report ascribes 

 the injury to the excessive quantities of coal smoke, more particulars 

 to the noxious gases which accompany the smoke. 



Sph^rothkca lanestris Hark, has been supposed to be confined 

 to California, and to a single host, Quereus agrifolta, but both ttu 

 conidial and the mature forms have been found this season 10 Missis 

 sippi, by S. M. Tracv. It occurs on Quereus prtnus, alba, maerocarpa 



and fahnim sn,] ;« r'^her abundant. The conidial form has also been 



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sites, proposes the following grouping for them, based upon nanu. 

 1. euphvtoid parasites, erect land plants, including five rami. ies w th 

 35 genera and 400 species; 2. lianoid parasites, including the genus 

 Cuscuta with 77 species and Cassytha with about 20; 3. epipntoia 

 parasites, tree-dwellers, including 500 Lorantjiace* and 15-18 antarctic 

 Santalacese; 4. fungoid parasites, including about 60 species ot the two 

 families Balanophorese and Cytinaceae. 



At a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada held May 2 9 tb last, 

 a club was formed by the botanists present, to be known 1 as the Bo- 

 tanical Club of Canada. It has no connection with the Royal Society 



other than that which all scientific and literary societies enjoy. 



