1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 95 
_ with the result of showing clearly the relations of the uredo- and aig 
forms, and affording a proper basis of classification of the two 
The metamorphoses of Pyrenomycetes gave rise to a ors a papers in 
which the connection of secondary forms as conidia, pycnidia, spermogonia, 
with ascosporic forms was clearly shown. On this fruitful topic, the super 
illustrations have been the envy of all later botanists, and their observations 
on the development of ascomycetous fungi threw a flood of light on one of the 
most obscure corners of mycology. In this connection should be mentioned the 
memoir on ergot and also the “ Mémoire pour servir 4 lhistoire jorganograph- 
ique et physiologique des lichens” in the Annales of 1852, one,of the most im- 
portant treatises on the structure of lichen 
he complete studies of the Tulasnes on ivporowas forms appeared in 1851, 
when thy published a folio volume, “Fungi Hypogzi,” of which only a hun- 
dred copies were printed. This work was followed in 1861-65 by the “(Selecta 
Fungorum Carpologia” in three volumes, containing an elaborate account of 
the different conditions of Erysiphei, Pyrenomycetes, and all other ascomycetous 
fungi. These four volumes, which really form a single series, are most elabo- 
artistically considered, by any other work on fungi. They will remain a last- 
ing monument to the memory of these two Si who were as talented as they 
were modest. Always courteous to their contemporaries and quick to recognize 
‘the value of their work and that of aie maa it is not strange that they 
were universally esteemed. Their lives seem almost a romance from the time 
when they began their botanical career as young men at Paris to their death at 
one of the most beautiful spots on the Mediterranean. The spirit which guided 
them through life and inspired them in their scientific work is indicated in the 
‘quotation which is placed at the head of the beautiful plates of the last volume 
of = ‘re sen boo “Non nobis, Domine, non nobis sed Nomini Tuo da glo- 
riam,’ RLOW. 
The Grasses of Coulter’s Manual.—In his preface the author invites 
criticisms or eso with the view of hastening the p a of a second 
edition, and the arks here offered ar e made with va hee pe that they may 
be o feck use ihe direction indica ted. Being more measly acqua. oe 
She the order A hies ve than with the other families, tious notes will be co 
ned to this order. i Ben 
into 
with the , as adopted by Bentham, designe to express their true mor- 
ns 
ithout stamens or pistils are developed ; but we must not include in the flower 
the bract or glume which inden i eS 
1 Bentham, Notes on Graminex, Trans. Linn. Soe. Xix., p. 24. 
