380 The Botanical Gazette. [August. 
AN INTERESTING UsTILaco on Zizania latifolia was described by 
P. Hennings in ease (34: 10). It is sold in the markets of Ton- 
kin as a vegetable n the 
aay 
rusty colored wares by mixing with lac. e smut is also Ba ati 
three fou 2 ie 
ness. The spores are massed into peculiar small granules in cavities 
in the tissues of the host. 
a rule in other species ses. In a later paper? sho . 
that in five species of Puccinia, growing on thirty-five species 0 
gr twenty-t s be separated with greater or less cer- 
On account of serious financial difficulties and a distrust of the 
progressive and enlightened educational policy of President John, the 
ni 
single tutor, who is expected to give instruction in the elements of 
sciences. Dr. Lucien M. Underwood. whose ability and success 
as professor’ of 7 have won him the high esteem of both faculty 
and students, has sailed for Europe and will return in the autumn 
with his family, who have spent the past year in Germany. He will 
take up his residence in Syracuse, N. yy 
* Ueber die Specialisirung des Parasiti i iderostpilzen. Ber. 
d. deut. bot. Gesells. 9: ao. 27 hase bei den Getreiderostp 
