1886. ] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 103 
“ outer side of each bundle is a “igo layer of cambium.” On the same page t the 
endogens are said to have “their cambium ti ssue in is eae of each bun dle.” 
A a rence of opinion aight also be held in reference to 
page 87, that “ polacggionl ray eigen secures variation,” a cl Fag gate re- 
presses We can cordially recommend the book, not only to the peactee 
ilottios but also to con ig Gand of whom know far too little of ihe prin 
ciples of physiological bot 
On the str gh the Testa ow Several Leguminous Seeds. By L. H. Pammel. 
Ext the Bullitin of the Torrey Botanical. ‘Club. Vol. ‘xiii 
88), ped aan te2: 
In this brochure, Mr. Pammel describes a shits of the seed —- of 
ace vulgaris, ‘Gymnocladus Canadensis, Phys ma venenos and 
a cuna urens. The ee of the very "hand pe co e aide: ite 
hat 
eaisours nt of scler Bieter tenon cells which are commonly present. The wor 
carefully done, and much of the extensive literature regarding legumin- 
us seed-coats is cited by the author. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
E GERMAN imperial gov romana has ordered the establishment of chairs of bacteri- 
iiey at all shee ectretel of the empire 
Ags! PAPER ig Dr. ah ents on intenuncnlas respiration, noticed in the March Ga- 
ZETTE, is taken are inform ed by Dr. N. L. Britton, from Untersuchungen des botani- 
schen illo: in Taingen, vol. i 
NUMERATION of the aca of the genus Phyllosticta by George Martin is 
n in ee March nu abe of the ae rnal of Mycology. It includes seventy species, ack 
upon sixty-four species of host plan 
EXTENSIVE BACTERIOLOGICAL sar are now carried on at the U.S. or: and Medi- 
cal Museum at Washington. The most recent apparatus and methods are used, and the 
facilities are considered tes equal to those of German laboratories. 
LLOWING n rasses a orfirpiseens by Dr. Geo. the sree’ = ni 
Torrey Club t + Fepeuney * paliguta Nealleyi, Imperata aerate spear Arizo 
Harvardii, mae A. Orcuttiana, Seven new vaueties belongingto other species are a atib ta e- 
Scribed. 
Epovarp Mo ORREN, the well-known professor mi bo otany in the University of Liége, 
vice-president ne the Royal Bot meme Pret! of Belgium, editor of Belgique Ho seo and 
of Ce serge etc died o 28th of Rapneciew last, at the age of 52 yea 
IN ANSWER to an enquiry, Professor Gray informs us that he is not quite astiee to 
Place on sale copies of his papers in the American Academy’s Proceedings and elsewhere, 
are not very many left over. Still, to oblige those whom he has to overlook or can not 
keep the run of, and to recover a portion of the cost, he has arranged that orders for them 
‘dresse the curator of the Herbarium of Harvard University will as far as possible be 
filled, at the rate of thirty-five cents for each paper. 
We. WALKER, F. R. M. 8., of Utica, | and H. H. Chase, M. D., of Geneva, N. Y.. have 
issued a fascicl (3) plates per with some new and rare dia- 
toms. Twenty-two species are mentioned, all of which are figured. Of the forms marked 
as hew five species are by Mr. Walker, two species and two varieties by Dr. Chase, two 
of 
fine cng of this kind of work. We suppose it is by a slip that the figures are said to 
be magnified 400 diameters, for being free-hand they must necessarily be variable. Weare 
informed ed this is to be s etiiwed by other numbers. 
