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NOTES AND NEWS. 



A good account of the Botanic Garden at Glasgow win t>e iouna in 

 Gnrd. Chron., Jan. 26. 



Prof. Dr. Goebel, of Marburg, assumed with this year the editorship 

 of the well-known journal, Flora. 



M. Hennecart, Nestor of French botanists, died at Paris, 23d of last 

 December, 91 years of age. He was born in 1797. 



The Michigan Forestry Commission report for 1888 contains much 

 information concerning the lumber interests of that state. 



Count Solms has recently published a MS. monograph of the Sapro- 

 legnieoe left by the lamented de Bary. Bot. Zeit. 1888, nos. 38-41. 



Dr. Fr. Johow, privatdocent at the University of Bonn, has been 

 called to the chair of biology in the Normal School at Santiago, Chili. 



Dr. Pfeffer, of Tubingen, has been elected one of the fifty foreign 

 members of the Linnean Society, in place of tli3 late Prof. Planchon. 



Prof. Joseph F. James has published, in Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 (Jan.), an account of the distribution of Vernonia in the United States. 



The fourth part of Jane H. Ne well's "Outlines of Lesson* in Bot- 

 any" has been published. It consists of a study upon buds and branches. 



Francis Darwin, heretofore lecturer in botany in Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, has been elected lecturer on botany in Christ College, vice 

 Dr. Vines. 



In Bulletin 3 from the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station Mr. 

 A. A. Crozier gives a popular description of some of the most common 

 injurious fungi. 



Bulletins 59 and 60 from the N. C. Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion contain articles on the purity and vitality of seeds, and the value ot 

 lucerne as a forage crop. 



Bev. ARTHUR C. Waghorne, of New Harbor, Newfoundland,}^ 

 published an account of the wild berries and other edible fruits ol iNew- 

 foundland and Labrador. 



RECENTLY biographical sketches of Dr. de Bary have been published 

 in the Bevichteder deutschen bot. Gesellschaft(General-Sammlung) and 

 the Botanische Zeitung (1889, no. 3). 



In Journal of Botany (Feb.), Rianvgeton variant* Morong in herb, is 

 described by Alfr. d Fryer. It is common to Britain and America ami 

 seems to be the P. gramineus,var.?spathula?formis Robbinsof Gray s Man- 

 ual. 



The decoration of the Legion of Honor was awarded by the French 

 government on last New Year's day to Prof. F. L. Scnbner, of lennessee 

 T. V. Munson, of Texas, and Jaeger of Missouri, in recognition of their 

 studies of the grape and its diseases. 



Guignard' reports the results of recent investigation of the develop- 

 ment of antherozoids of the Charace.c. The nucleus of the motnsr-cen 

 forms the whole of the body of the antherozoid, the protoplasm forming 

 the cilia only. In these plants there is no vesicle attached. 



•Comptes Rendu* de I' Acad. Sci. CVHL 71. See, also, Revue generate de Bot. no. 1. 



