1886. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 21 
presi Phallus. I do not know the species, but for a day or two — they 
appear above the ground the odor of carrion prevails, and as soon visible, 
t i S. ey 
in r loamy soil, and follow one another in most an 
any "application to the ground can destroy them I should sii yaniy obliged eed 
informa MartHa Bock&e Fur 
The Agricultural ii Denadimiack. 
I was very much interested at Ann Arbor, last August, in two things con- 
ne ore with this department, viz: the action of the botanists with reference to 
h coura 
ing the sintitoaial herbarium what i ght to be, and t yen 
no given to the new work under the charge of Prof ibne take ie 
ans of asking, either the editors of t ZETTE, or the officers of the Agri- 
inetd i perbeepon what en the r of the acti these two cases? 
has be sult 
know of many botanists ready to peoriy in both these directions if they can 
oleae: the necessary informat Bs ITs 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
me Ai of the Microscope. By Edward Saaiehy Bausch & Lomb Optical 
Co. Rochester, 1885. 12°. 96 pp. Llu 
he author has attempted, in this on work to describe the parts of a 
microsco be and their uses in such aclear and concise manner that the beginner, 
confronted for the first time with a ar “inieroscope may have no difficulty in 
firm’s salen oce ne one twice in the work, and that it is as free from any adver- 
well be. On i 
vot 
rei 2 compound microscope, 0 ves and eye-pieces, saponep for il how 
g icr 
mend the work to all ithe ome zn aan roscope, especially those who 
a Snaalees full masters of the ment, and it would also be ex- 
cellent . put into the hands of the any preg at the beginning of his 
Thirty. — Annual Report of the N. Y. State Museum of core History: Report 
of th e Botanist. By Charles H. Peck. Albany, 1885. 8vo. pp. 77-138. 
“ ates. 
of the Mascon staff are to be cee under their immediat superyision, an 
e work of the botan ist which has been partially inter- 
rupted for two years through political interference, has fully resumed, 
and the result is seen in the description of sixty-six new s in the present 
report, including a curious fungus on flies, assigned to a new genus, ppendicu- 
I Am aph of t New » k ies of Lactarius oe Pluteus is also 
given, containing forty and nine species respectively. eck says very 
truly that “a nce Pie een of our cymenaareeiel fungi is greatly 
