320 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. | Nov. 
Pror. Heenan ben BARNES bee A ab as one ae the bulletins of oT oe 
an analyt y to the gen recognized i ual of 
ma moses ve ‘North America, weet is well known to g the manu 
l key to g gee anything but satisfacto ory. Professor Barnes has 
attempted to supply this per a to lessen the rca in the way ‘a students of 
opies can be had on sppteation to Purdue University. 
HE VER LES ruthers, before the biolog- 
ical section oe the B ish Reaceiath ion, on the age ots some neexisting species = apres , is pub- 
lished in full i tie ged al of Botany for October. Comparing the species of mummy 
—- and those of veeeot geological ni etal s with = ving representatives the conclu- 
sidered onfirming the long-established 
—— that by us, at least, as s workers, species oman be eats sans as < ave quantities.”’ 
In g f th ekett havent 
a 
+ 
hy + +2 + +h 7 
= 
5 
= 
- 
a 
I Qu 
ical Club h f d satisf carry a bottle of good glycerin 
as the material is satin wash well in sea water } an oa drop it into the bottle. chee 
imens ataun not be put into a bottle to thin the glycerine too much with sea water. 
Such material can afterward be mounted in glycerine jelly. Some kinds, like Polysiphonia 
and its at are not well preserved in this manner, and for such a saturated salt solution 
uld sed. 
ae 
gts MES BRITTEN is doing some good work in the matter of raisin — ons con- 
cerning = priority of a. neric names. He has given in the last 5 a l of Bo otany 
a paper the nomenclatu —— Proteacez, hit which the rights of Salisbuny — put 
forward a nd rapnte ap sed upon oe ange ished = nist to the 
vere § res passe 
ey the case we have Lest to say, but if ve fos = a law at all, ii hd sO! 
pe t is to be fixity of names, the sooner all anaetions " mes are Sealed. se better: 
and 7 Ad must be gogee ba sotte of sentiment, or fitness, or universality, for short of abso- 
lute <a there is no fi 
ANICAL PAPERS before the Birmingham meeting of the British Association 
as foll ede Initiation of a discussion upon the value of the **type-system’’ in the 
mie: of botany, Prof. Bayley Balfour: On oo germination of the spores of Phytoph- 
thora ee. Prof. Ma ee Ward ; On the flora of Ceylon, especially as affected by cli- 
ire Hei aif Tri rimen mboldtia laurifolia asa lg gg ilous plant, Prof. Bower; 
eon the f ral s avtitnet? > of the genus Cypripedium, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters: Bugio, 
the tality of erin Zelations rc “a heer eri Michael = ‘Giabhia am; The multiplication and 
organism 
TERESTING FUNGI ene oe oe erns of meee France, 500 feet below 
the surface, collected Ay a. Marty, are described by M. R yimogure in the, eid Revue end 
; Ds SDs ich hung pendent from the ceiling of the cave by thousands bey igre 
form stipes sea or more long. much twisted and often Bata were inflated 
inch in diameter at the base while the other end was recurved, and su ipported the prayiah 
x 
brown pileus i ‘e an Oprighe t.position. when ghtod by the lamps of the explorers the roof 
pilei 
THE STRUCTURE of the diatom valve is the a ci considered in the last number 
of the Journal of the Quekett Mier. Society. The paper by Mr. Deby is of special interest as 
— author has based : conclusions upon astudy of untreated valves from living diatoms, 
1 
one, also i a f si letely } 
ated, giving the valve its appearance of areolation. Thi- W,as elaborate a by the author, 
seems more i cord with our knowledge of the rattare of other vegetable eells peng 
those of the well known diatomists, Miiller Van Ermengem, Flogel, Cox and Van Heurck 
A. Ernst, of Caracas, in Nature of October 7. cope to 
whl 7, gives an account of what he considers to 
ge bse vag "Bieter a sis phan ig atorigy kingdom. It is a menispermaceous 
i 
1 Tati a male OEE? He also attempted to 
: discover a er, as in the case of Coelebogyne, the embryo is developed as an outgrowth 
from a cell of the nucellus, hen discarded the soes on the ground that that process is 
»ryony, and there is no such thing in Disciphania, a conclusion 
womay) be somewhat Hence the claim is that this furnishes 
on cafertilized oosphere. ‘OF course the strength of rag wl pes is 
recnceeaae , and altogether it is a matter well worth eo ig in 
