NOTES AND NEWS. 
graph, appears in Garden and Forest for October 16th. 
R. Druery, in Gardener's Chronicle (Sept. 28th), reports a “bi- 
— fern hybrid between Scolopendrium vulgare and Ceterach of- 
cinarum. 
IN CONNECTION with Professor Huxley’s death it is of interest to 
call attention to his single paper on systematic botany, entitled, “The 
oe: notes and queries.” It was published in 1837 in Jour. Linn. 
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A FINE ILLUSTRATION of Yucca Whipplei, reproduced from a photo- 
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THE INFLUENCE of spray and rain on the forms of leaves is a topic 
written upon by Conway MacMillan in Scéence for October 11th. He 
takes several recent articles by foreign botanists as the basis of his dis- 
cussion. 
THE RARE Rhus Michauxti, of North Carolina and Georgia, is de- 
scribed and figured in Garden and Forest (October gth). Dr. Sargent 
believes it to be the most poisonous of the North American species. 
Dr. Harvey W. WItey, Chief of the Division of Chemistry, De- 
partment of Agriculture, has just published a bulletin containing an 
account of his analyses of cereals collected at the World’s Columbian 
Exposition. 
A Few copigs of the Uredinea Americana Exsiccate published by 
Mr. M. A. Carleton in 1894 can still be obtained of the author (Agric. 
Dep't, Washington, D. C.). Only one fascicle of fifty specimens was 
issued, and the publication has been discontinued. The price is $2.50, 
or $2.75 in foreign countries 
MoLiscu recently showed that the phycoerythrin of the Floridez is 
a crystallizable proteid substance,* and in a still more recent paper 
he demonstrates the same for phycocyanin. The solubility of its crys- 
Se ee ee SR RAE PETE 
1 Bot. Zeit. 52: —. 1894. 2Bot. Zeit. 53: 131.1895. 
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