1895.] Notes and News. 471 
THE STRUCTU f a 7 i . 
ieithed by Gain of a age upon the stem of Chondrilla juncea is de 
ment for the parasite. The development of these galls did not injure 
the growth of the host. On the contrary the plant developed an 
abundance of sound achenes, and the galls seemed merely to have 
modified the ramification, each gall giving rise to five or even six lat- 
eral branches.—T. H. 
IT SEEMs quite like “old times” for descriptions of new species from 
the Gray Herbarium to appear in Am. Jour. Sci. This last contribu- 
tion is by Dr. Robinson and Mr. Greenman, and is in four parts: 
1. “On the flora of the Galapagos Islands, as shown by the collection 
of Dr. G. Baur,” an interesting discussion of the peculiar harmonic 
. M. Wieg 
: . Durand; “The flagella of 
motile bacteria,” V. A. Moore; “The fruits of the order Compositz.” 
W. W. Rowlee and K. M. Wiegand. 
been discovered on ar, where it grows on sandy soil in wood 
Baillon? describes it and supposes that it is a saprophyte, since the 
plant has no green le he parts unde nd are unknown, and 
and the inflorescence is like that of ourcommon /71s, et in a smaller 
le. The perianth is white and has a strongly infundibuliform 
tubers. The plant has several characters in common with the Bur- 
ascar, he 
green lea 
‘E. Gain: Sur une galle du Chondrilla juncea L. Bull. de la soc. bot. de 
Pp toe! 41; — 1 : 
H. Baillon, Une Iri sans matiére verte. Bull. mens. de la soc. Lin- 
Iridacée 
néenne de Paris. no. 145. 1894. 
