48 BOTANICAL’ GAZETTE, ee : 
conclusion is, “it seems idle to discuss further the influence of forests 
upon ig -fall iin ba sccauaiic point of view, as it is evidently too sli 7 
actical importance. Man has not yet invented 
method of conan rain-fall.” 
ICK BRENDEL has distri iia a pamphlet of about fe 
pages, entitled % Flora Povian a.” It is a careful and painstaking pres: 
f the rvations of thi fave years upon the vegetation of @ 
ATION of starch by plants - fie the subject of et kee 
rece: ; Bratenrs Ivey and Gray at the School of A 
om Canterbury, New Zealand. Peas ns and wheat were used, — 
an 
e 
ey U6 ra ‘formation ; in continuous cloudy weather starch i 
ee faecal by plants but very slow ly. 
_ .. “ConTRIBUTIONs to the life pa a of deme is the title si a paper 
ee by Mr Meehan, a reprint from the Proc. Philad. 
cad, : 4 
__ iveness after fertilization has been efiscted. In Oxyba At hirsutus, meee 
nothing suggests any arrangements for cross- geben ae 
‘ PROFESSOR PrerreE VIALA sailed for Europe on Beckairter 3, after a 
stay of some months in this cou untry. One of the objects of his ‘mission . 
will probably appear in Fran 
6 purp 
and in this co ountry at about the same da k of 
- interest to American viticulturists, te, and will - a work of special 
ERRaTa.—On page 5, foot-note. for “ 1877” read 1887. On page : 
| third Pa fifth lines from bottom : for “Gothic shaped” . Ls sha. pea 
