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mary of the literature of the genus. I. Suksdorfii appears as anew species 
from Washington Territory, said to be easily recognized by its trilobed 
rootstock. 
The U. S. species of Marsilia are reduced to four, M. tenuifolia 
strangely kept distinct, while M. uncinata and M. mucronata are made 
varieties of M vestita. Extended study of large suites of the American 
_ forms has led_ us to different results® The error of Al. Braun (in Berl. 
ee! in copying Engelmann’s M. macropoda as macropus is here 
iene the original description eases not being consulte 
Salvinia natans is not credited to America, yet its SHetines in Mis- 
souri is an established fact. Notwithstanding these omissions, the work 
is a valuable addition to the literature of the pteridophytes. 
Lucren M. UNDERWOOD. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. W. Baker, formerly a member of the Kew staff, has been ap- 
pointed curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden 
Count H. von Sorms-Lavusacn, professor i botany at he as has 
scented | the peg of director of the botanical garden at Berlin 
pes | LEY, Jk., of the Michigan Agricultural College, is 
daiveing a course ‘of lectures at Cornell University on horticultu 
EW GENERA of Ascomycetes are published in Journal de Bo- 
tig ( (Now. 15) by M. Ph. Van Tieghem, under the names Oleina and 
en saa tle review of Rees and Fisch’s monograph on 
Elaphomyces, vol. x i, p. 255, append the ‘nitials W.T. The review was 
contributed at the a core’ request. 
’ Dr. H. H. Ruspy has distributed his paper on the cultivation of Cin. 
chona in Bolivia as a re print from the Pharmaceutical Record. It was 
8. 
at the last meeting of the A. A. ry 
AN ARTICLE on the mycodomata of sean ha roots by Dr. A. 
N. Lundstriém in the last number of Botaniska ser is acaanipanied 
with a plate illustrating the bacterioid adies ine re the tubercles. 
INTE soa TI an account of the morphology and biology of the Ure- 
dinew by P. is being published in the successive numbers of the 
Botanisches Chabeatblait in which many American species are ent aes 
THE West American Scientist — upon its fourth volume with con- 
_ tinued assurance of success. Its editor, Mr. C. R. Orcutt, is doing a g 
; slope. in keeping alive an interest in sea history subjects on the Pacific © 
; Proressor L. von CrenKowsk!, of the Russian ee ie Charkow, 
arall known by his studies on low forms of animal and plant life, and 
Particularly by his memoir on the “Morphologie der Bacterien,” died 
October 7, at Le eipzig. : 
_ °Cf. Bulletin Torrey Bot. Club, May, 1887. 
