1886. ] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 287 
C. H. STOWELL has severed his penrrymeee with the Microscope. The August number 
contains sis ae and Papesat 
- Mo. Microscopical Journal, Pape steno’ bg editor, ‘Mr. Romyn Hitchcock. No 
aia auare could justify sibines public insolen 
THE ERBARIUM HEUFLERIANUM ” Pei. 8 is for sale, on account of the death 
of the owner. It contains 1,431 genera, 8,614 species, aa about 30,400 specimens, including 
many type specimens. Further information can be obtained by addressing Paul Baron 
Hohenbiihel, Innsbruck, Universitiitsstr. No. 3, Tirol, prowess ngary. 
Mr. ee FRSUND, a Vienna, = ah have found cellulose 1 in Rees human blood 
and organs in 
re and of the blood in tuberculosis, Heretofore the occurrence of cellulose in ani- 
mal tissues was euanap: to be restricted to a few invertebrate families 
N of the Phalloids, or stink horn fungi, has ree easy been e by Dr. 
Fischer in whiel eleven suns ee seventy-three species are a ae 6 Fnaie old genus 
Phallus is discard About a d from North America, four from 
Europe, and seven from Asia. They are most numerous in the southern hemisphere. 
F. Day gi a list of era to his excellent catalogue of Buffalo plants. The Natural- 
ists’ Field Club of that city is an pee ad active organization, and it ‘would seem 
ese if any plants dasapea t Abot 
EFHOD ms sed. BY Dr. Bt Zz af beigaer mper to pet the distribution of starch in 
m twelve to twenty-four hours, then transfer to 
gentsicn a solution of ate peso ish parts of chloral to five of water. By this 
means very transparent, and the smallest grains of starch, stained blue 
by the nt are clearly visible under the sim even in the deepest-seated cells. 
E PRINCIPAL articles of the begin of the Torrey Club for September are Naiadacex 
in the Torrey Herbarium, with plate, by Thomas bt a Synopsis of the Genus Paspalum. 
by Geo. Vasey, Dehiscence of Fern tase by Joseph Schrenk, and Proceedings of the 
ies descri mogeton 
Wrightii Morong from the Loo Choo islands, and Paspalum Buckleyanum Vasey from Texas. 
THE TH LLETI Soriété Mycologique de France, recently received, contains 
several vanes on hymenom delet fungi by MM. Quélet, Lucand, Steuienen , Gillot, 
Mougeot, Barla, and Brunaud. The wise spect articles are the Role of ptomaines 
and leucomaines in mushroom poisoning, by Dr. rquignon; Note ona case 0: 
ing by watson gt ret Dr, Kuhn; and On the scncceusinshial study of mushrooms, by M. 
Boudier. 
AND MILLER pmb been investigating cholera during the past year in ge 
hai. They rhea Koch’s com a bacillus in twenty-t es out of twenty-seven cases. 
germ is destroyed by drying, t The 
question as to whether it enters the body through inspired air or the alimen 
ntary ca 
finds upholders for the first position in Emmerich and Buchner, hcted in Sicily, for a 
second, Koch and the general opinion. 
REMARKABLY REDUCED trichomes in some species of Campanula have been described 
by E. Heinricher in the Berichte der deutsch. bot. meen The ot fe age seine 
pay in about the middle of the outer = of the epidermal riace 
the lea’ in cuticle, ond — show divisions. The dis- 
Cc C. grandis and C. patula, and 
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stomach , If, however, bacilli and bacteria are 
Haast tome ore the ydrochlorie acid of of the e gastric juice is poured out they pass on into 
the intestine uninjured. attacked 
by cholera w! nes ine Seary is diseased. As it is generally ibonens tat He meee ee 
introduced by the alimentary ese observations of Dr. Miller are 
extremely caren 
