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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



-ment stands alone and faces the x)ther five in a cluster 

 opposite, thege vsdth their dilated filaments E^pproximating 

 eaoh other by their edges so nicely as to appear at first glance 



unit^. -The anthers dehisce by four slits at the apex. They 

 ^are, however, strictly innate, but on dehiscence are turned 

 4nwards and downwards, so as to be exactly resupinate. .The 

 stamen of the lower set only partially succeeds in inverting 

 •ite ainther. This contrivance was found uniform in all flow- 

 ers examined* — W. L. Jepson . 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



A'lWMtiER of British botanists are still jumping about in 



the bramble bushes. The May number of theXondon Jour- 



nal of Botiiny contains articles in which are described two 



new species and two new varieties, and the July number 



keeps Tip the procession of new Rubus species. In the 



'August niitilb6r the HaiT^weeds get some attention and six 



new species of British Hieracia are published, not to speak 



of some twenty new varieties. It is evident that in such 



genera at least the discrimination 6! species by English 



botanists has passed much beyond the point of capillary 

 division. 



The Botanical Survey of 'Nebraska has issued its Report 



for 1893. Preliminary work of a useful sort has been done, 

 as appears by the following articles: Revision of the Poly- 

 petalae; Preliminary Ijist of Botanical Expeditions Made in 

 the State; Bibliography of the Flora of Nebraska. Further- 

 more, one hundred and eighty-two species, a list of which 

 is ^en, have been added by members of the Survey to the 

 ' known plants of that State. 



Mr, T. H. Kearney, Jr., has succeeded the late Dr. 



Morong as the Curator of the Columbia College Herbarium. 



