1886. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 159 
NEW cidium, ©, Phryme, is described by Dr. B. D.-Halsted, in the Journal 0; 
: Myo for May. It occurs upon Phryma Leptostachya, and was found in northwestern 
Tow 
Pror. L. H. Benny is making some sets of carices for fall distribution, comprising a 
number of rep , for the benefit of those who wish a start in the study of 
chee 
ss C. E. CUMMINGS, in : in Wellesley College, has been 
valores —_ i eR for a year’s study in Europe. She expects to sail shortly after 
commencem 
KINS eee of the eryptogamic botany of a Florida log in a short paper in 
the Journal of Mycology a dant having found fifteen species of lichens and fungi on one 
log, besides vet mosse: 
t of a botanical trip in the mountain region of bbs ar “ona 
ry Ca foe including a visit to Mts. Seas and Mitchell, is given by Mrs. E 
in ate Bulletin of the Torrey Club for May 
THE RECOMMENDATION in Gray’s sivtctuval Botany, p. 38], that species sheets for the 
herb should weigh 28 Ibs. per ream of 480 sheets should read 178 lbs, This typo- 
raphical error has shape detection until now 
THE FIFTH ITEM under ‘‘Notes and News’’ in the May nunret in regard to Dr. Hueppe’s 
new work on the forms of bacteria and their relation to genera and species should have 
Stated that it will re reviewed ina ges number hi this isournat 
romeliacese belonging to Kdouard 
tren, together with his library, wil 
in ma Liége Botanical Institute, of pach ese he was one ‘of the chief preter 
J.G. BAKER has recently given a carefully aie pie sea ure rk, 
which has been printed in the Gardener’s Chronicle. xce selleint ap of this 
extensive and many-sided botanical institution, and a ae pets which it subserves. 
JECIDIA are difficult to promt yy: ee a —e pie pressure is sale to break the cups. 
Prof. Seymour say by d around the dryers 
containing them and exposing to the heat of the : sun “without pressure till dry. This 
makes the leaves of the host brittle but the cups are well preserved. 
ri Boa 
© pages, and appears to be carefully prepared. It vies L 5 argos phanerogams 
nts, pane ie inne 
i the same. Seis 
Bora ISTS ie have once attended the meetings of the Amerie Association since 
the ae of the B to come agal 
nim so, should gen inquiry of their nec who have, or accept the assertion of others 
hat they not spend a week in leasantly and profitably. The next 
novlaraite ac rape August 18 to 24, ere a ase to be one of ot best = he eS 
THE A.S. isf rican 
Association who take special interest in botany. The only requirement for Senecinar ame 
to suitably fill out a registry blank at the desk of the 1 The objects of the 
Club are to encourage the informal p: peatgr beets = a of all rage of botanical 
interest, t, to pr romote good {fellowship among its oS he standard of the 
bot nyters 
of the prea ion. 
THE MORE RECENT  wadietona to the herbarium ot oe University of Nebraska include 
nearly fifteen thousand species of exsiccate the most interesting De fee an 
Curtiss’ Florida plants (650), Parry’s 8 Western ope cum, Au a s age “ oe 
and supplement to the same (100), Gottsche & Rabenh erw: 
longo’s Lichens of Italy , Thiiman’s Myc. ialeiett (2300), Shc Alge 
Massa 
of Scandinavia (400), and Rabenhorst’s Alge of the World (2600). 
