432 The Botanical Gazette. [September, 
of the fourth volume cannot be accepted, as we have a genus of flow- 
ering plants by that name in this country. It was given by Elliott 
an ¢ found among the Zricacee@ of Gray’s Manual. It is also 
m 
duly recorded by Bentham & Hooker in Genera Plantarum, 2: 606. 
In THE Bull. de ? Herb. Boiss. of August, G. Lindau describes 
twenty-two new species of American Acanthacez, ten of which are 
from Bolivia, and the rest from Brazil, Venezuela, Central America 
t f 
(Kelleronia); Klatt describes twenty-seven new Gomposite, of which 
fentatrichia is a new genus; and altogether eighty-nine new forms are 
presented. 
Rapais, from his study of the development and structure of the 
female flower of Conifers, claims that only in Taxotdee does the seed 
remain naked until maturity, ample protection being afforded by the 
scales of the cone. We do not see that this has anything to do with 
the gymnospermy of these plants, as the ovule still remains naked so 
far as its own sporophyll is concerned. e homologizing of gymno- 
sperm ovule with an angiosperm “pistil” is certainly uestionable, for 
there is no reason why the somewhat loose term “ ower” nee 
used in a different sense in the two groups. That Conifere are aha’ 
somites whose method of fertilization has been modified by remova 
rom water is certainly a reasonable conclusion. 
list given includes not only the plants collected but also those Corie 
ited to Yucatan by Hemsley, thus forming a starting point for the suD- 
AN INVITATION to the botanists from Dr. Farlow to visit Cambridge 
on Saturday in lieu of the general excursion of the A. A. A. S, was ac- 
cepted by a dozen, who were entertained with lavish hospitality. Under 
the guidance of Dr. Farlow and Dr. Robinson they visited the apa 
cal laboratories in the Agassiz Museum, the Botanical Garden an 
an autograph of Linnzus, and various other things of interest to bot- 
anists. At the Aboretum, Mr. C. E oat 
and explained the plans for planting 
