70 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. | March, 
apparatus, is Jeo haeatg by the details of saat bogs with seventeen differen 
plants, phanerogams and cryptogams, in various stages, ve leafy wes 
Lilgicackn tes or entire plants, = various : degrees of temperature and illu 
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tion. In the ifferent experim ts the ratio of the intramolecular to the: ace 
m 1.e.I+N) v sfr i i 
celsa, to rene in seedlings of Vicia faba at 23° The gre ies — of the pa- 
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per is occupied by a discussion of these results and critical re upon the 
theoretical eiulanaion of the phenomena of normal and ieeeiiaghooelic respi- 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. HeNry G. BULL, of Hereford, England, a mycologist, died October 31, 1885, at the 
age of 67. 
Dr. Basak the well-known mycologist, died at Geneva, Switzerland, November 
24, —e pe nace 
LSPAUGH’S third fascicle of American dicinal pl I pp d, containing 30 
Pio ei with descriptive texts. 
THE BEPORT of the Forestry Commission of New Tern pentse, eS, is a hundred-page 
t 
he . OysTER, of Paola, Kansas, ies published a peeniog ue of Bort American 
plants, nek seems to be well done, and is surely 
sry D PROVINCIAL LEGISLATION in the ae of horticulture and forestry is the 
title na a eae? of Sap ee <: pages, by Charles W. Garfield, containing valuable in- 
form. 
ED ACCOUNT of the apenas pear blight, written by Dr. J. H. Wakker, has- 
bre pubis in i rene ndsche Tuinbouwblad, a — ardening rei of Holland, with a 
rtaining e disease is ieee in that country. 
ngage EpOUARD MorREN has distributed his adres ey ee La oserqueasec et - bate 
lité des végétaux.’’ It was delivered at a public meeting o yal 
tees ath of bapeie and is a delightful nah ik ofa on interesting shies oy 
DES CHAMPIGNONS is being published soit regu eer of Paris, ener gives 
the principal eatble and pesoneus mnshroomis of Fra The authors are MM. Richo 
an t lored plates, ual is issued in aeiatine ata 
reasonable price. : 
THE HERBARIUM of Columbia rye ees York City, is being removed to the third 
floor of the library building. This w any advantages, not the least of which will 
2 a thorough protection against fire i $e “nat ing being fire-proof. It will be several 
onths before the work of removal is complete. 
PROF. . BessEY has been appointed State Botanist of Nebraska, and ‘ 
sum of tw ree me dollars, or so much thereof as may be n paren was eppopraed 
pay the. incidental expenses e onnected with the appointmen nt. With 
i tis country well WOPKE 
Ts N THE JOURNAL oF Boraxy se Febroary, Sitios Britten sina eis: to show that the 
genus Brodixa ofS n older name, Hookera . = sbury. Itisa t 
of justice to Sali d th i well presented that dass to be no reason 
ee not accepting the change. In that their if 
IN THE BULLETIN of the Royal Society of Rilcto, Vol. eg pss ON on has mare 
lished a monograph of the genus Thalictrum, with five plates representing the types of 
akenes. The genus numbers 79 tage ies, of lacie gg have about 10, The name T. Cornutt 
he suppressed, which brings p T. corynelium C., but Dr. Gray claims that As i peyonan 
ahi. i liest and well 
Mublenberg’s 1 name, therefor, 1 this species will ryt hereafter 1 te known, - ms 
among American botani 
