1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. i 
THE FitcHpurG (Mass.) High School, under pene st its science teacher, E. Adam: 
Hartwell, has prepared a catalogue of the plants of Fitchburg and vicinity. os is i hse 
by the Agassiz Association of that place, and is cute soot oie is na preci 
and order of sequence are used, but as the result of seven seasons’ aes me is an ex- 
cellent showing 
WE cuiP the following lines ab wngre! Dr. Asa Gray from the tiie “eke of 
adpoal 6. They were called out dy ps eel s biographical sketch in the New 
York Sun: ‘En A sh botanists vai Asa Gray as themselves es, despite nb accident 
of his birth on +e other side of the Atla ntie, anc g 1e€ 
land of his birth.’ 
WINTER WEEDS is the subject of an illustrated article in Vick's meyers for February, 
by Warren H. Manning. Capsella Bursa-pastoris, Veronica peregrina, Linaria Canadensis, 
eon inflata betty ou ricum mutilum, Spergularia mig Malva rohan altel and Stellaria 
edia are mention ed. Although most of poe ually classed as annuals, the power 
o young Cote to endure the winter, and often ‘et n the flowers whenever the weather 
is mild, makes them in effect biennials. They ti 1 led wint 1 
oxox Louis RENE vie LASNE ae Ly Hyéres on hos uit second of December a 
tt Though he ork for the past twenty yea 
his‘name is fam mous hy #0 n of his classical researches aa various groups of phy es- 
pecially t the Tuberaceze, Tremellinew, Nidulari ex, ae Ustilaginez. His work upon the 
eals 
well known. 1 
ious g ps of t tant ich isa Synopsis of Podos 
Much of his laborious | research was shar red b ve paar Ch. Tulasne, Ming aa some 
Sais ago, their most celebrated joint work being Selecta Fungorum Carpolog: 
Pror. J. C. ARTHUR has just eis his annual report for 1885, as See of the 
New York Agricultural Experiment Sta The report shows great activity and, better 
than all, a desire te grapple with okay are ; ans living problems. The ave ports 
from agricultur. Coulis oe the usual tables ut very per oes — from 
Still more unimportant nts, upon kind of 
work. This report ia chic 4 wit b pla nt diseases, the _ presented secre as itlewa: 
Pear blight, proving of sine fruit, rotting of tomatoes, st and mildew of lettuce, rot- 
ting of cherries and plu leaf we i aon and their _— tes. 
ae Ls of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific each ta for 1884-5 ¢ ns one hundred 
This society draws its snark in part 
the University. of North a pane bbe Ppl does credit both t o the society and to 
the university. oe chief bots cal a Rev. M. A. Cur 
tis by Dr. Thom: 
m t bot i 
also notes on transpiration of plants, ey of Ilex leaves, citric and malic acid in pea- 
huts, cypress in North Carolina quaternary, ee the _ and abnormal leaves of 
capa a aoe Venable, Schweini et Holm Hyam 
THE N FLORA is the subject of arecent communication to the Linnean Society 
by John rath eatin with the origin of the Andean flora, the author remarks that a 
quarter of the phane erogams of the region are Composite, probably the highest proportion 
own in hen region, and peed of fore ais — characteristic group is t 
Mr. Ball co f Composite, arguing their great antiquity 
from the soasetas of forms, the localization of some great groups, and the cosmopolitan dis- 
Persion of o Allowing for all ie a peared of origin, or even several lines of 
dean ho Tato the Rocky Mountains of North America, brows about be the ae okie 
_conneetion through Central Ameriea and Mexico, is dise oniacee and Hy- 
drophyllacew are both noted as orders whose original ne may ket cusiee western 
North America, having feebly spread ova along the Andes. The order Loasacez. 
on the contrary, poet a South America 
