NOTES AND NEWS. 
Captain JOHN DonnELL SmITH has gone to Europe, for an absence 
of three months, in connection with his work on the Central American 
Dr. Gro. A. REx, the leading student of Myxomycetes in this 
country, died recently at his home in Philadelphia. We have received 
no particulars. 
Mr. M. S. Bess has been compelled again to go to Florida to spend 
the winter on account of his health. He carries with him some “wil- 
low work” and also our best wishes. 
THE CURRENT CATALOGUE of Harvard University reports the her- 
barium as containing more than 200,000 sheets, and the botanical li- 
brary over 9,000 volumes and pamphlets 
Dr. W. J. Brat has published in full his “Sugar maples of Central 
Michigan,” read at the A. A. A. S. last summer, in the annual report 
of the Mich. State Board of Agriculture, vol. 33. 
In THE J. H. U. Circular for January (14: 25) is an account of “some 
rare ferns found near Baltimore,” by Mr. C. E. Waters, in which is de- 
scribed a new variety of Zguisetum arvense L. 
M. A. FRANCHET, in continuation of his studies of the plants of 
Western China, publishes in Journal de Botanique (Nov.) four moré 
new species of Saussurea, and eighteen new species of Senecio, twelve 
of which are of the Cacalia group. 
_ INA RECENT PAPER (Proc. Amer. Acad. 1894: 396) on variability 
in the spores of Uredo Polypodii (Pers.) DC., Mr. B. M. Duggar shows 
that the thick walled and thin walled spores simply represent different 
Stages of maturity, the latter being the immature form. 
In Mr. J. W. Toumey’s very interesting series of notes on the flora 
of the Chiricahua Mountains (Arizona), appearing in Garden and For- 
est, the second installment (Jan. 16) is accompanied by two beautiful 
Photographic reproductions of Pinus Chihuahuana, and P. latifolia, 
Standing in the midst of their native topography. 
_ THE comitTeEE of Sectron G, A. A. A.S.on Bibliography of Amer- 
ican botany recommend that persons recording in a monograph or 
memoir a list of papers consulted repeat the author’s name with each 
article listed, for the convenience of any who may wish to cut up the 
Pages and make cards (either electros or prints). 
PARTS 109 AND 110 ot Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien are devoted 
to the Bignoniacee by K. Schumann, and the Mucorinee, Entomoph- 
thorine, Hemiascinee, Protoascinez, Protodiscinee, Helvellinez, 
Pezizinez, by J. Schréter. The rapidity with which this great work is 
appearing is a matter of congratulation to all botanists. 
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