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BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Juty* 



a thick octavo on the useful indigenous plants, by J. H. Maiden, 3 curator 



of the Technological Museum of New South Wales. The plants are treated 



alphabetically under the following headings : Human foods, forage plants, 



drugs, gums and kinos, oils, perfumes, dyes, tans, timbers, fibers, and 



miscellaneous. The book is admirably arranged and contains a large 



amount of useful information, all authenticated by abundant references 



to sources of information. There are fifty double-column pages of in- 

 dexes. 



The first fascicle of twenty-five Kansas fungi has been distributed 

 by Keller man and Swingle, of Manhattan, Kansas. The object is to 

 include species never before issued, or on new hosts, or because other- 

 wise noteworthy. The specimens are ample, of excellent quality, and are 

 neatly put up and labeled. The present fascicle contains four species of 

 Cercospora, three of Puccinia, two each of ^Ecidium, Glceosporium, Pero- 

 nospora and Septoria, and one each of the ten remaining genera, all being 

 parasitic forms. The series promises to be a valuable addition to American 

 exsiccati. Those who are not so fortunate as to be remembered in the 

 distribution can purchase of the authors at $1.25 per fascicle until the edi- 

 tion is exhausted. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Mrs. Lydia S. Bennett, a well known botanist at Fisk University, 

 I enn., died March 16. 



Prof. Peter, of the University of Gottingen, desires seeds of North 

 American species of Hieracium. 



Mr A. A. Crozier has resigned his position as botanist of the Iowa 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. His address at present is Ann Arbor, 



r.t ^ a E librar y of Le opold von Ranke, recently placed on the shelves 

 i.Wfl 3 ™ " 8 ? U ° lver8 . lt 7- although mainly historical, yet contains some 

 z,?!„™ t^ n i S «? special value. The largest of these are the Abhand- 

 u?n2 • J , er „l m Ac 7 adem y. ™ to 1886, 81 quarto volumes; the Sitz- 



Monatsberichte 



Erdkunde 



xtl a*L t 2 J 885 ' ln 52 „ volumes ; the SUzungsberichte of the Imperial 

 £™7 of Sciences at Vienna, 1848 to 1886, 113 octavo volumes, and 



?£,£?r Pi™ ° f the 8a ine Academy, in 35 royal quartos ; the AM of the 

 Academy of Sciences at Turin, 1865 to 1886; the Bulletin and Annuaire of 

 wT- A fi em J of Belgium, the two series making 169 volumes ; the 

 i^ g „ Trr f th f 1 J . aarhoek of the Royal Netherland Institute; the Verda- 

 IZ\ ~ Ve / ha ™ Mln 9en of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Amsterdam, 

 S? p2?°k Tt? 1 ? 1 ,- 8 of the sci entific societies of Upsala, Copenhagen, 



Ititi bur S and D ? blm - . Altogether a fine reference collection of serials 

 for the scientific workers of the institutio n and vicinity. 



*v/ S « AI , DEN ' J ' ?; _T ^ e USeful native plants of Australia, including Tasmania, pp. 696 

 Svo. Sydney and London: 1889. 



