1895. J Notes and News. 559 
In THE Journal of Botany, for October, Mr. A. B. Rendle continues 
his description of Elliot’s tropical African Orchids; Mr. R. Schlechter 
begins an enumeration of the Asclepiadacee of the same collector, 
describing a new genus (Pleuroste/ma); and Mr. D. Prain continues 
his account of the genus Argemone. 
THE LEMMON HERBARIUM has been removed to a commodious 
building belonging to Mr. J.G. Lemmon in North Temescal, a beanti- 
ful suburb of Oakland, California, on the electric line between that 
city and Berkeley. Mr. Lemmon’s twenty years of familiarity with 
IN THE ANNUAL REPORT of the Rhode Island Experiment Station 
for 1894, L. F. Kinney discusses the fungous parasites of the apple 
and pear (pp. 183-198), with nineteen well printed illustrations. In 
the report of the New Jersey Experiment Station for the same year, 
B. D. Halsted writes upon a variety of subjects (pp. 273-419). Fungi- 
cides were tried upon cabbages, tomatoes, potatoes and beans. A 
large part of the space is devoted to injurious fungi of cultivated 
plants. Weeds receive some attention, and the poisonous plants of 
New Jersey are reported upon. Several articles are reprinted from 
journals. There is abundant illustration, but the cuts are very indif- 
ferently printed. Like the former reports of this indefatigable ob- 
server and writer, this one contains a large amount of important mat- 
ter from both the scientific and economic standpoints. 
(Bull. Kans. Exper. Sta. no. 49). The plants had taken up so much 
of this substance from the soil, that in the partly dry stalks examined, 
“beneath the leaf sheath which surrounds the stalk just above the 
joints the nitrate had crystallized in fine white crystals which resem- 
bled a white mold, but was easily recognized by tasting with the 
Around and in the cut ends of the stalks were sotid masses 
weight of the stalk as nitrate of potash 4 
about one-eighth of an acre, which had for some time previously been 
used as a hog pasture. The corn had not matured owing to 
eather. 
Proressor W. C. Wittiamson died in London on June 234d, at the 
He is best known by his series of important memoirs 
published mostly in the Proceedings of 
1892 he was professor of natural 
Manchester. At the latter 
