556 The Botanical Gazette. [December, 
Mr. N. M. GuatTFELTER discusses Salix Wardi Bebb in Sctence 
(Nov. 1). He has had extensive field experience with it and gives ad- 
ditional information as to its relationships and range. A careful tab- 
ulated comparison with SS. nigra and S. amygdaloides sets out the spe- 
cies strongly. 
plants; Crucibulum vulgare, growing on a piece of rotten straw mat; 
and Urnula Craterium on fallen limb. The high quality of the for- 
mer issues is maintained. 
In CONTINUING his studies of the African Asclepiadacea, appearing 
in the Journal of Botany, Mr. R. Schlechter has described (Nov.) two 
more new genera, Symphytonema and Glossostelma, both illustrated. 
He also describes seven new species, and follows Baillon in merging 
Gomphocarpus with Asclepias. 
WEED BULLETINS have been issued by the Experiment Stations of 
Kansas (no. 52), giving a list and distribution over the state by coun- 
ties; of Ohio (no. 59) giving methods for destruction of weeds along 
roadsides; and of Iowa (no. 28 in part) giving an account of prickly 
lettuce (Lactuca scariola) and buffalo-bur (Solanum rostratum). 
THE CONTRIBUTIONS to the Queensland (Australian) flora, by F. M. 
Bailey, the colonial botanist, has now reached the eleventh number. 
The last issue (dated July, 1895), contains descriptions of the fresh- 
water alge, about ninety species, and of the marine algz, about twenty 
species, with very full notes, and seventeen plates of illustrations. 
pleasantly described by Professor Beal in Garden and Forest (8: 303 
THE SUGGESTION has been made that the University of Pennsyl- 
la, In connection with the museum buildings which are con- 
templated, lay out an ethno-botanic garden which shall serve for the 
instruction of the public as to aboriginal American plants, and shall 
possess, also, scientific value by reason of its rarity—Phila. Evening 
Telegraph. 
In THE Annuario del R. Instituo Botanico di Roma, which is edited 
by Professor Pirotta, the sixth volume opens with the following papers: 
The formation of the starch grain, by C. Acqua; The germination and 
certain structures of Kefeleeria Fortunei (a coniferous plant), by Pi- 
rotta; Some plants new to the Roman flora, E. Chiovenda; Contribu- 
