88 botanical gazette. [March, 



The larger part of Professor Dudley's article on the Strassburg 

 Laboratory, given in the December number of this journal, has been re- 

 printed in Nature for January 17, " as showing the sort of provision for 

 botanical study that is thought right and necessary in Germany." 



In the Bulletin of Torr. Bd. Club (Feb.) Mr. Bebb gives a second paper 

 upon White Mt. willows, in which Salix phylicifolia L. is discussed, being 

 S chlorophylla And., Gray's Man. Ed. 5, excl. char. In the same number 

 Mr. Morong gives his first impressions of South American vegetation. 



The Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station has published a bul- 

 letin (No. 19) upon the spotting of peaches and cucumbers. The peach 

 spot is Uadosponum carpophUum Thuem.,and heretofore has been recorded 

 only as occurring in S. Austria. The cucumber spot is C. cucumerinum 



Plant illustrations in recent numbers of the Garden and Forest are 

 as follows : Cereus Pringlei Watson (Feb. 6). a gigantic cactus of Mexico, 

 not so tall as G giganteus, but with more ponderous branches than any 

 Man US j ' and Rosa humilis Marsh. (Feb. 13), the R. lucida of Gray's 



Dr. Maxwell Masters (Gard. Chron., Feb. 9), in giving an account 

 (with capital illustrations) of Abies lasiocaipi Hook., concludes that, for 

 garden purposes at any rate, A. subalpina Eng. should be considered to 

 be A. lasiocarpa Hook, and A. bifolia Murray ; and that A. lasiocarpa of the 

 gardens is A. Lowiana. r 



The series of articles on physiological botany by Dr. Goodale in 

 Garden ami F<srest is of great interest to those botanists who do not keep 

 step with the advance of botany in physiological lines, as it compactly and 

 clearly presents our best knowledge of the subject. The series began in 

 the first number of the current year. 



mi* I ^°" ra . a/ de Botaniqiie (Jan. 16), Abb6 Masclef discusses Daucus his- 

 Stu^I Xt t0 the int erminably variable D. Carota,a thing that 

 might be done with our own D. pusillus with no great violence. In the 



SiriES 1 * Piltoull,ard begins a study of the genus Lachnocladium, 

 describing nine species, two of which are new. 



** tw^nHA RT f E h f. 8 f . reoentI y observed the formation of numerous (as many 

 Ca^^ll^- VentV ^ 0n f r ? 0t ^ by the en «os P erm of Cycas Thouarsii,a 

 stan fro^thT 8 ' • ^V ] he < T eda are without embryos. The roots 

 fonivlw nf e " ei g hb 9y h 1 °. od of the micropyle. If the endosperm is the 

 equivalent of the prothalhum, then this is a peculiar form of apogamy. 



bv F^PrL L l ST ? ATED n ^ >n °# rai>h of British Hieracia is being prepare 

 wav a nnP fl r,L nSeU ? anbur y- Jt is to be done in a most elaborate 

 nletPrnn fivl g J n ^ u %l erl y P art s, the estimate being that it will be com- 

 and 16 shniinl ? TS - Th ? an ? Ual . 8ubscri Ption is 24 shillings for colored, 

 author It fii Th! °r uncoIored copies Subscriptions are to be sent to the 

 author at 69, The Common, Upper Clapton, London. 



H Knowhnn ?nTh?p Cie8 °!r ft>S8iI ?°,° ds have been described by Mr. F. 

 diaenosHP ^h.™£ Proceedln p of the National Museum for 1888. The 

 S C 8 C h ha J ^ a £ r8a . r e mostly drawn from the microscopic structure; 

 The P iecie1 Z\ !5t n * ^P™ 111 ^ perfect state of preservation. 



Press Fcr^" , " arauca T na (Araucarioxylon) from Arizona, a cy- 

 SKSKS-" <*P~ ^om Montana, and 



