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(De la Pyl.) J. Ag.” (xxvi, 177, September, 1891). These 
articles were accompanied by plates illustrating gross and 
minute structure. A paper entitled “On the Classification 
and Geographical Distribution of the Laminariaceae,” may 
be found in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, (ix., 
333, 1893). These papers will give an idea of the 
character and purpose of the research work of the new head 
of the Department of Botany at California. We believe they 
represent thus far the totality of his published contributions 
to the knowledge of the marine algae. In the Botanical 
Gazette for May, 1894, appeared ‘ Notes on the Ustilagineae.” 
Professor Setchell there describes a new species of Doassansia, 
viz. D. intermedia and, also, describes and figures the 
germination of several other species. One of his latest 
papers is a biographical sketch of Professor Eaton. This 
was published in the Bulletin of the Torrey Club for August, 
1895. The summer botanical work at Woods Holl, it may 
be noted, is under his direction. It is hardly necessary to 
say that Professor Setchell is versed in modern laboratory 
methods. He has the reputation of being a careful and 
thorough worker and possesses the very large advantage of 
being a young man. 
Dr Maxwext T. Masters, has renamed the Guadeloupe 
Island Cypress as Cupressus macrocarpa var. guade- 
loupensis, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for July 20 (3 ser., 
xviii. 62). In connection with this change he remarks:— 
“The late Prof. Sereno Watson described, (Proc. Am. Acad. 
xiv. 300, 1879), this fine Cypress as a distinct species, under 
the name of C. guadeloupensis, and perhaps rightly. Itmay 
also, and, as we think, more correctly, be considered as a 
form of C. macrocarpa. The latter, known as the Monterey 
Cypress, has a very limited range of distribution on the 
Californian coast, and, to our thinking, the present is but an 
insular variety of the species, differing from the type more 
especially in its glaucous color. It is true there is a consid- 
erable distance between Monterey in lat. 36° 4’, and 
