196 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ July, 
DS sc pas which the xey law of os a capes is i tingetog am, fs Gana thistles, 
on , teasel, white daisy and s dragon.’ he — 
¥ oe arepl regarding the particular plants to whieh these names apply, and Professo: 
page which he has given 
oe third report of the Agric. Experiment se of pee The paper also contains 
much information about the habits of the plants, the e history of their introduction into 
ie spiel and methods to be used in their extermination 
CAL BOREALIS has not usually been credited with ens possession of coralline roots. 
These were ie pone out to Dr. Gray several years ago by Mr. Hitchings, of Boston, and the 
fact was called to mind lately by seeing such roots on fine specimens of this beautiful or- 
chid brought to the Botanic Garden at Cambridge from the White Mts. by Dr. Goodale. 
OM A STUDY of Mahernia verticillata Mr. Meehan ~~ n led t the- 
hat re developed from . axial buds at 
of e does not mean to deny ipils in such case the stamen is str 
2s sora Sealine but that this structure is developed on an arrested branch and hen: 
axillary. 
THE WHOLE of Dr. M. C. Cooke’s ws fb herbarium of fungi has become the property 
of the British government, as we learn from Grevillea a, and has been transferred to the 
oben Gardens at Kew. It will be a corporated with the general collection, which is a 
e thing to do. The collection of the Rey. M. J. Berkeley is at the same place, but 
ia distinct. 
the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 
me (1885) has ar to hand. It contains the ‘llotine | botanical articles: Vitality of 
ds buried in the soil, W. J. Beal; The demands made b agriculture upon the science 
oe botany, C. E. Bess sey; Notes on injurious fungi of California, W. G. Farlow ; The dande- 
lion ea the lettuce, E. R. Sturtevant: ere in ges plants, W. W. Tracy. 
R Of bacterial diseases of lepidop z have been distinguished an 
sietuatiy mee ar ied dines A. Forbes, Pe Minois V University. Artificial cultures ps 
the bacteria were m t larve. De- 
e, healthy 
scriptions and pr mses of the bacteria are given, ie the micrococcus producing 
flacherie in the cabbage worm is illustrated with iio This paper forms one of 
the bulletins of the Ilinois State ry a 
REPORT on fruit blights and diseases of fruit trees made to the government of New 
Zealand by Professor T. Kirk shows that the people of that country are awake to the econ- 
omic value of systematic observation and auoee oitnen in this subject. The report deals 
mostly with the depredations of insects. m it we learn un the most serious enemy of 
the apple is known as the American ee ai which is & Woo aphis. sag is called fire 
due 
blance to our peach yellows. The peach yellows and pear blight of of ‘ia any ‘hai ra ti 
been observed in New Zealand. 
