1886. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 345 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the ney Miihlenberg, with portrait, has been distrib- 
uted as a reprint from Hoffman's ‘‘ Pharmaceutische Rundschau,’’ June, 1886. It is writ- 
* Sah eS wn Maisch ones Ph ninadaiphts Colle ee of Pharmacy, set is exceedingly 
closely identi ed with early American botany as Miihlenberg was, it is 
spuetaiey pre for American botanists to be aenbeaa with his life. 
end OCTOBER RUMBER of es Ratian Journal of Sony contains bryological notes ih 
G. Venturi, the extra y L. Macchiati, description of so: 
new sist ak Scitaminez by B. Sco teen: notes on the fruit and ae of Cacao by 1 . 
Caruel, a case of prolification in Spilanthes by F. Tassi, a new station for Aceras anth ro- 
pophora by P. Severino, and teratological notes by C. Massalonge. 
ners’ Chronicle of Novem- 
It isa Chinese and Japan ese plant, Xow ap came to the United States nobody 
re gaky how, te . — ages ye ars ago, but has now spread wonderfully in the southern 
Unite are given in this eats: vol. III, pp. 4, 42. 
INT pea of the Torr. Bot. ol tub, for Nov prem there el aga papers of eystematic 
inte sagt Britton publishes a preliminary list of the N. species of Cyper 
nterest, 
genus which he has long been studying. Seventy-three sail are enumerated, a a 
eral new varieties and —— are described. Rev. E. L. Greene dese nies six n w Cail: 
fornian Polypetale, and Dr. Vasey publishes (with plate) a new genus of renee, dediented 
to Mr. C. R. Orcutt. remem Californica belongs to the Festucez and Lower 
California 
THE EpIToR of the Botanisches the report. 
any American botanical society ‘will be ont ieee? in that journal, mein trans- 
into, and fifty Aesth furnished the Soci iety free. Two hu more copies 
e suppli i « This on offer, 
e printed report at little ey es souk and brings pro- 
beri gives the soci separa 
ceedings to the scates of eae throughout the world, ought not to remain coke 
Address id Uhlworm, Cassel, Germany. 
LITANI, sob ix, No. 2, appears with ten folded plates and several 
A Horti PETRO 
eo of importance to syst ists. C. Winkler describes twenty new Composite from 
Tu n, E. R. Trautw — publishes ist of a Tu ollection, with descriptions 
of new species, among he Astragali predomina . Regel also continues h 
descriptions of new or eerie keowe plants. e ar Dr. 1 
tribution are the nee inte of the Asiatic genus Eremostachys, and a conspectus of the 
lom 
ain sof P. 
sa, by = Wm. Dawson, 
forms a IX of the Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of anu ei f microscopic 
objects ag” found by Mr. B. W. Thomas and others mn ERS? fe — clays ae underlie 
n Ohio, New 
milar bodies path since been found 
tland, Tasmania, Australia and Brazil, and qui te a literature has come 
oe i 
of Satvinia-like plants, int atvidse ‘them into five species, und P 
ugge: esting the remarkable abundance of floating 
Mm TRELEASE has published a revision of the North American species of 
ctrum, distributed as a reprint of the Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xxiii, , accom 
The species have yor been difficult of discrimination and polanichs 
uable characters are taken from the condition 
h and form of filaments, the anthers, -s 
A dozen 
Miihlenberg’s T. polygamum replaces T. Cornuti of 
is journal, 92, The good plate of achenia helps tonne the work of deter- 
