124 The Botanical Gazette. [March, 
Mr. Merritt LynpoN FERNALD, of the Gray Herbarium, Cam- 
bridge, Mass., — 7% pp meced © distribution of Maine plants 
during the coming s n. Sets will be collected to continue the 
series started in ee Sisligstions will be made chiefly in central and 
southern Penobscot and Piscataquis Sountes, which contain hundreds 
of lakes, and the highest mountains of Mai 
AMONG VARIOUS notes upon Ladiate, soe in Bull. l’ Herb. Bo- 
issier (Dec. ), M. John Briquet describes some new forms of Mentha 
The great amount of variation of some of the species is shown by the 
fact that of the new pores described ten are varieties of M, rotundt ifo- 
fia, twenty-one of JZ Pio nine of M. arvensis, six of M. viridis, 
f iperita, and i ote e whole be of sixty- ave new forms but 
eleven species are concern 
UsTILAGO MEDIANS is a new parasitic fungus occurring on barley, 
discovered by Herm. Biedenkopf in the neighborhood of Halle, Ger- 
ma In erate characteristics, this species resembles U. Hordei, 
_ between which a . Jensenit it occupies an intermediate position. 
mplete Spec tion will appear as 
as the species is showeaghly studi ed.— Wel 
December number of father winch Zett- 
schrifi “Investigation of the mo rphology and anatomy of malforma- 
tion upon shoots and leaves caused by the : Exoasci,” by W. G. Smith, 
has another paper on the investiga- 
tions of wood entitled, ‘Taveatigntions on the course of growth in oak 
in the Guttenberg and Grauschatz forests near Wirzburg, and in the 
forest district Freising and Starnberg, near Munich.”—L. S. C. 
Fascicuus I of a distribution of Russian fungi under the title 
e Uredinez are such interesting specimens as Puccinia (ep Sa Hind 
, Puccinia Rose Barclay, Puc- 
cinia plicata om. ed enn devastator Sorokin, Phroghtidium 
circumvallatum P. — ices W. D. H. 
Oulbeahind " Australia). 
ing not unwholesome and Mr. Cooke discovers that the Lakers 
of | tsi Cosmpatks x er si ones oa of SV. 
711. Cymyirouia: 52 species in all. Twenty- 
five species are : ouch in South America only on this continent) ae 
