1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 195 
cautious however in relying too implicitly on the eae relating to the 
structure and development of the sexual organs and py pai where we notice 
some serious errors, appare wy of carelessness. The engravi ie are poor, but 
at the very low price of the book (one eee we sesh hardly expect an 
elaborate work. It is well worth the mo 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
PROFESSOR CHAS. R. BARNES received the degree of Ph. D. at the last Commencement 
of his Alma Mater. 
RTH VOLUME of a aes s Sylloge nine aed which includes 3,583 species be- 
bi “i ae Hyphomycetes, has just been issued. 
ICAL STUDY of Yucca ‘cian has been made by Helen C. DeS. Abbott of 
whieh Fada from the transactions of the Amer. Philcedphiell Society have been dis- 
ted. 
RTHUR received the doctorate in science during the recent commencement at 
comet Univers rsity. The subject of the thesis presented was ‘‘ History and biology of the 
ony ight. 
. SEYMouR, for the past year Professor of encey 4 in the University of Wiscon 
sin, re resigned eae of. tse to accept the curatorship of the cryptogamic herbarium ot 
Bevara Uni 
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ef the late Dr. Tuckerman in the Amherst 
which the Gazerre mae was condensed, was written by Professor Goodell and not ce 
Professor Tyler as was stated. 
THE JUNE NUMBER Of the Pharmaceutische Rundschau contains an i r by 
. J. M. Maisch 0 eee ae as a nist. We regret that asi ca gens reivits 
our giving Smeg lens the lectu 
ATES, of Santa Barbara, pees is preparing a catalogue « of all ows ferns 
giving syn onymy, habitat, etc. He will g 
concerning new species, new habitats, ete. 
STS WHO have fruiting specimens of any species of Dentaria will gi a favor 
He moding. them to ie Sereno Watson , Botani ic Garden, Cambridge, Mass., who will be 
r Theodore Gill, in his scien- 
Protozoans. In the 
a et seciadeacateas REPORT for i just issued, Prof 
udes Myxomycetes am 
tific record for that i ee in zoology, i ong the 
bibliography of zoology, Zopf’s ‘‘ Die Pilathiere vrs Sehle ieipiiae” ” is ——— 
WING TO AN at polit r increase in i the January 
issue for thi t pies can be obtained from those 
~~ have pohineyrd the ier ere gr now i ocaainad rn will have to begin with some later 
umber. 
IT Is NOTED with pleasure that the iiushhy ens of North Carolina has conferred the de- 
gree of LL. ws ya Dr. A. W. Chapman, of Apalachicola, Fla., and Mr. H. W. Ravenel, of 
Aiken, S.C. A tardy but well rpoccenti compliment to these most eminent southern 
os 
calge to the proceedings of the Amer 
col- 
R. W.G. FARLOW on contributed notes on arcti 
pinncirnene The 
ican aged emy. They 1 in the study of 
ser pees ly rene . 
lections were made nedpon ut principally by Mr. L. M. er 
gags a bay. 
Ca m 
E INTERESTING abnormal forms of Vaucheria are Lipson by Douglas H. 
Sone gr Naturalist for June. The positions of the odgonia of ag 
Tacemosa are are variously — by clusters of odgon and vegetative ¢ filaments, 
eridin on ere 
