334 The Botanical Gazette. [July, 
ceived the apparatus, specimens, books, etc., held by the Microscop- 
ist. This will be good news to those who have known the inefficiency 
of this ridiculously illogical division. 
OLORADO SUMMER SCHOOL oft science, philosophy and lan- 
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tinguished educators. Botany is in charge of Professor Charles E 
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Department of Agriculture, has had under cultivation the past year 
something over one thousand varieties of wheat and oats. The grains 
THE AMERICAN NATURALIST has seemingly erected a new depart- 
ment, that of “vegetable physiology,” under the editorship of Dr. Er- 
win F. Smith. As the editor takes a considerable part of the space in 
his initial number to attack the nomenclature movement, which can 
not be construed as having anything to do with physiology, it is not 
apparent why the items should not have appeared under the heading 
of “Botany,” the department still edited by Dr. Charles E. Bessey. 
lists of all employees whose names ought to appear in such a directory. 
Mr. Dérfler’s address is Wien I, Burgring 7, Austria. 
GCBEL’s sixth contribution, under the title Archegoniatenstudien 
(Flora 80: 1. 1895), is on the function and formation of elaters. He 
gests it to be), is accomplished in two ways; (1) either by acting 4s 
slings, energetically hurling away the spores at the moment of drying, 
as in the greater number of forms; or G) by their slight elastic move 
ments loosening up the tangle of spores and elaters so that it may be 
readily carried away by gentle air currents. 
POLYEMBRYONY is not an uncommon phenomenon and arises from 
various causes. One of the most interesting cases was described Hs 
few years ago by Dodel in Jris Sidirica,and by Overton in Lilium Mar- 
Zagon, who showed that one embryo arose from the egg and another 
from one of the synergide. Now S. Tretjakow announces the forma- 
