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NOTES AND NEWS. 
EVENTY SPECIEs of lichens oa bac collected by W. V Presse we mostly 
peat ay Willey, e Journal . L tu for Octok 
R. on D. HaLsTeD will spend the winter months in the hak of Los. 
Angeles, ean. He will remain there from the middle of November to the middle of 
February. 
A CRITICAL STUDY and revision of the Hysterineew in the Duby Herbarium, by Dr. 
Rehm, is aces in the fourth heft of geo ork and will prove of interest to systematic 
oe ts. 
HE Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for October, Dr. N. L. Britton tenets geet 
two teins of wh a a been called Anychia dichotoma, and restores Decandolile’s A. 
illacea to specific 
A HANDBOOK 7 the sryplogamie is peepee a by Aaeed ag ceca bs gale? lid 
age Eas! = London, N. W., England), oo 
recent articles pertaining to a ree 
CARL OscAR HAMNSTROM ie at t Hessleholm, Swerlen, oe pte ifs of this year, at the age 
f 70. We learn from the Botaniska Notiser that orks comprise studies 
of parts of the Swedish flora, dations ed between 1842 and 1851. 
IN THE OCTOBER Journal hes Botany Baron - von citi = scribes a new genus of Vac- 
einiacez from New Guinea, ing it Catanthera. Its sa t characters are petals per- 
send separated and anthers a pauaneOnky icles Sra an ynward. 
N ERINEvuM on the flowers of Lc igpes grapes is ee 4 J. E. Planchon in the 
last pie aoe tect as apa found in two localities in Fra Erineum usually ap- 
pears on the upper surface of leaves, eas has ctuitityd never : beloce been eae on the 
pases 
ah aiure, for Sept ted a ck H. Marshall Ward, on the 
oe of roots. In po se ck language e he gives an idea of the acrteities of the root, and 
shows anak complex conditions are at work, influencing the life of the whole plant. Spe- 
cial angie is paid to the,oxygen supply. 
TOMATOES, by Prof. L. H. Bailey, Jr., occupy Michigan plone ioaar oe 
esc a en Seventy-six —— vaslotie were grown | the es dg 
which th ne 
cal synopsis prepared in 
upon their earliness, sronuulivouaan amount of rot, and pervabantion a are te 
w (Achillea Millefolium) is observed by Rev. G. Hens has ia 
the Royal Horticultural ylieea of Eng la rt to beg yno- -dicecious. The female florets b 
abortive anthers without pollen. Th di 
es having fewer sa apace and stamens, slightly longer ovaries, ‘and the corresponding 
tubes mya rr 
THE A and development of Agarum Turneri, the sea colander, by Mr. J. E. 
Humphrey, forms ae fifth contribution from the eryptogamic uberis of Harvard Uni- 
“ahh as the part studied. It agrees closely in structure with that of other 
Laminari ett interest centers in the manner of forming the perforations, which 
is well seit andi — ted. 
ne 
Mr, 
Harvard Pee on the aaiacoas of Ravenelia a lndleform Our knowledge of 
lete. The paper shows that ee 
this odd member of th e Uredi new has been wer ery in — 
h of adnate pedicelled spo 
A skeETCcH of the life of C. C. Frost of Verm lied in 1 the October 
J ogy. It is from the pen of bit. ge R. Dudley, pret visit to > Frost’s 
late poasen, $8 and is an interesting account of a mod: botanist. Mr. Frost’s 
chief Work, do conjoin nly w with Prof. fuckermes ermann, was a Catalogue of Shi of Am- 
ly of the fleshy sorts. 
herst. 
