|8 botanical gazette. [February, 



XOTES AX J) NEWS. 



t C J H £E?7 SK y ha * ! atelv describ ed a hybrid between Anihcmis Cotula 



L. and iWUrirana modora L. 



Dr Douglas H. Campbell has published 1 his paper onthe germina- 

 tion of the spores of MarsUia iE-yptiaca. The main facts have been 

 already published by h.m in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 I.SW, p. 258, a paper rea 1 before the A. A. A. S. 



n* !??*S? L " ° 3B0BX ha ^ ^tired from the editorship of the Ameri- 

 can MM*, KtcroKopical Jourwd. The Journal will continue under the 



MV S,, Rnn, r "nH ? f r nt ,°l, Mr ; 8mite y^ will be edited in Washington 

 Mr. Ronnn Hitchcock, the former editor, has lately arrived from Japan. 



and SffaSSTth!! r tT in Tr ?tigat t d the T d r mis of the 8eeds of Capsicum , 

 i n r p « It i he th 'u ° Utei : wal1 ' which has usual] y been called a 

 Hve%aZ/T^ti men ^rane, is mostly cellulose, with a thin inner 



&3£E?£ m he very thlck lnner and side walIs ™-*»- *•■ **■ 



in thSr '" Rev^u r n m n , S e ^ d u h - at ^ r - Gra ? and X Hammond Trumbull, 

 St on 'u^ 1^?22H£ °"?!? ° titivated Plants, with Adno- 



tenee 



three nlant* nf w u» "r* • • : £ A j V. AIIierica n origin ot two of the 

 were ?he 4?den h P! ,n /pk y D f Candolle .™s entirely uncertain. These 

 chm) wtCi ok S i f e ° lu f VUlgans) and S( l ua8h (Cucurbita mos- 

 fron North Wrir^n „ ° W f ° Und P r( * 18tOTi c seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris 



exatrcahr 



of the eastern United q.Tt'T • ^Pf 8 . 01 tne m °re common species 



III and IV? which are n™ t f ", 18 T d ? N °vember, 1887. Decades 

 number of'cSrS species ad ^ or , dl8trib ^ion, contain in addition a 

 The authors announce h atlZ dlng . tW °^ nev< ? r before distributed, 

 if the necessarv maleriaU can I En^^" 1 . be ^ ued annua,1 y' 

 the number of* species to £ pvI? n a- '' a - n L d xt ls not expected that 

 political boundaries eventually distributed shall be limited by 



cies Kshfe «e requested, and for every spe- 



tained of E"£ UndSwcS?^^ fr^S iff 5 ^ T^" 



I and II now remain. Syracuse, a. 1. Only three sets of Decades 



' B-richted. deut. hot. Qe*!),. vi. 3 40-3«, i plat ,. 



