1895.] Notes and News. 557 
tions to the flora cee —_ Africa, by C. Avetta, a list of 202 species, 
several of which a 
In Flora (80: a pete H. Gliick combats Bower’s theory of the 
sporophyte being derived by the sterilization of spo rogenous tissue. 
The point taken up is the foliage leaf of pteridophytes, which, Gliick 
= ananga has nothing whatever in common with the sporogonium of 
st NDER THE TITLE “Education and research in agriculture in 
the United Staies,” the U. S. Department of Agriculture has 
published a pamphlet of thirty-six see prepared by Mr. A.C. True, 
giving a clear historical account of the beginnings, advancement and 
present status of the higher intellectual forms of agricultural knowl- 
Dr. CHAPMAN’S HERBARIUM Of southern plants, upon which is based 
his Fora of the Southern States, has oes purchased by Mr. George 
Vanderbilt, and will serve as a nucleus of the scientific collections 
which he is establishing on his estate = Biltmore, in North Ca ahi 
in connection with Sn arboretum and sjateinaticatly managed forest 
—Garden and Fore 
M. VUILLEMIN be described some very curious ovules of Begonia 
structure of a carpel” (Jour. Roy. Micr . Soc.). He seems to think that 
such a monstrosity shows that there is no essential difference between 
ni axial and an appendicular organ 
A chine sa BOTANIST, whose ake ee te are known every- 
where, is upon the point of losing his eyesight, this misfortune ren- 
dering him absolutely helpless. Posopens euroeks have been interest- 
ing themselves in his case, an e BOTANICAL GAZETTE is glad to 
present this notice to its readers sa He to act as a channel of communi- 
cation for American botanists who desire to help in this case. 
HE ENERGY of the living protoplasm is treated in a series of most 
interesting and comprehensive articles by scar Loew, professor 
istry in the Imperial Universit ty of Japan, which 
he Bu/letin of the College of Agriculture. They 
e same publication contains many other 
are no 
are wr in English. 
itten gis for the most part the re- 
articles upon chemico- tht subjects, 
sult of original investigatio 
- RAPE DISEASES of the ete fic oa are treated by Newton B. 
Pierce in Farmer’s Bulletin no. 30 from the U.S. Departm ment of Agri- 
gulture (pp. 8, figs. 3). The diseases ee are “California vine 
disease,” known since 1884, devastated 30,000 acres of vineyards and 
ak. a loss of $20,000,000, the powdery mil Idew, known ip tbo 
and coulure. The last causes the flowers and fruit to fall from the 
bunches, and is due to a variety of causes. - 
In Bulletin del Herbier Bossier Oey I Freyn discusses a group 
of pe Histackaaia: Nicolas Alboff giyes the results of an ao 
study of the alpine flora of the tieexoace cf the western Transcau 
