22 BOTANICAL GAZETTE, [Jan. 
needed,” and we think Be is just the person to write it. But if this is too great 
an undertaking at present, why not bring aie a monograph of the New York 
species with colored Sane to be printed i ”, _Mus eum series vs BASES! 
volumes ; it would be of great scientific iad and o ng cre uthor. 
For the information of those who ma y not eS of the fac we will 
state that the vie report of the botanist, ci ha was over fistributed, may be 
found in Assembly Document. 89 for 1879, vol. 6. 
seis SP - a Bate ia and Yeast Fungi and allied species. By W. B. Grove 
and Windus. London, 1884. 12°. 112 p Le 87 Diepestions. 
tg ie a thes two classes of laut f given by Winter in the las 
tion of Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen staal von Deutschland, etc., ates ua — 
basis for several English works, and n ore serviceable than the one in han 
prey =~ ha if the book is iaeetaaiie a Hila pote from that work, with 
notes aealaies and some additional species, principally from Van 
Tiegher, Burrill, Kock and Hausen, Additional cuts are also introduced from 
various sources, of teas h the most interesting are those from Dallinger showing 
flagella A cha apter is given to forms which are inadequately known, or whose 
i ould i 
pope Thin, Engelmann, Warming, Van Tieghem, Klein, Ehrenberg ont ma 
"This, in ts present unsatisfactory state of knowledge regarding these 
nute organisms, provides a very useful manual, giving good oe and 
istration, and igo “gsr bine to some extent the synonymy and literature. The 
e nume and clear, but in many instances have lost in — meee oduc- 
tion saiech of = 2g cety of Rae ne that gives individuality to the organ 
An _sretnon Sa feature of the work i i es chapter on plamibossion | in which 
rog of classi i 
others, but asses by Zopf. They views et the latt ter on pleo ‘ morphism apt 
its dangers i are discussed, 9 ope with a statement se the true nature of s 
among th ara to the rank of the yeast plants i ln 
space is given to - hypothesis of Hest id, who sald he them to be a conidial 
stage of other fungi, probably 
— ices s give information “regarding t the unit of micro-measurement, 
B duced by schizophytes. A full 
staining 
index completes the 
Th 
ork. 
e excellent pean of the work and no less excellent contents should 
bring it into the hands of many workers 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
RANZ, Baron L bea tebe known as monographer of the Salicornie, died 
in ati, Italy, August 12, 18 
AN APPARATUS to hibeilessins before classes or large audiences the manner in which 
e cambium gives rise to wood and bast, a been devised by Dr. F. Noll, of Heidelberg, 
and is highly spoken of by Professor Sach: 
Dr. WInTER, of Leipsig, and C. H. Demctrio, of St. Louis, rere in Hedwigia, a list 
of 350 species of various kinds of fungi collected in Missouri. Twenty-five new species are 
described, including six of Septoria and eight of Cercospora. 
Str JosePH D. HOoKER, aiter twenty years’ service, resigned the Directorship of the 
