NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. R. SCHLECHTER publishes in Journal of Botany (Dec.) his sec- 
ond decade of new species of Asclepiadacee from South Africa. 
Mr. GEorRGE Hansen of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Jack- 
son, California, announces the distribution of sets of the flora of Ama- 
dor, Calaveras and Alpine counties. 
Erytuea (Dec.) contains several new western species, by Greene; 
an € corrections in nomenclature by the same author, notably 
the replacement of Hesperochiron Watson by Capnorea Raf. 
BuLtetin L’HErs. Boiss. (Nov.) contains a new Riccia (with two 
plates) from Lusitania, by Levier; a new Zragrostis from France, by 
aveau, making four species belonging to the flora; and a monograph 
of the Swiss Massariee, by Jaczewski 
THE usuAL interesting report of the Department of Botany of the 
British Museum for 1893 appeats in Journal of Botany (Dec.) A ve 
large series of collections is indicated as having been received, but 
there is no summary to indicate the total additions. 
of the award may be obtained by addressing the Director, Dr. Wm. 
Trelease, St. Louis, Mo 
THE TENTH ANNUAL meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science 
during the last week of December developed the usual large number 
of botanical papers. Botanical work in Indiana is rapidly increasing 
both in interest and amount. Of the fifty-two biological papers pre- 
sented thirty were botanical. 
In Mew Education Professor Stanley Coulter is giving a series of 
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