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cause it exhibits such a close correspondence of its mature characters with 
the structure of the embryonic Lycopodiums. 
CULTIVATED VERBASCUMS have always been favorite plants for hybrid- 
izing. Dr. Victor Schiffner™ has given us an interesting account of these 
hybrids in general, and then describes minutely some new hybrids from 
V. pyramidatum which were discovered in the summer of 1885 in the Bo- 
tanical Gardens at Prague. They were growing spontaneously, and were 
of sufficient interest to justify a careful comparison of their characters 
with those of their parents. The hybrids studied resulted from the cross- 
ing of V. pyramidatum with V. nigrum, V. phoenicum, and two different 
combinations with V. phlomoides. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. J. T. I. Boswetn, the well known English botanist, died Jan- 
. 81st. 
A BILt to establish an experimental grass and forage station has 
been sea before congress by Senator Platt. 
C RIES XX and XXI of Ellis’ North sg nities Fungi will be 
— ery in the spring—probably in March or il, 
EVISED EDITION of Underwood’s “ Ferns be Their sae a will be 
ia ioetly from the press of Henry Holt & Co., New 
. Ep. PALMER has just returned from Mexico. oe collection of 
on some 600 species, is on the way, and doubtless contains many new 
oR 
APPEARANCE of the new journal, Garden and Forest, has been de- 
i el by the serious illness of. Professor Charles 8. Sargent, the editor in 
THE Index Seminwm, the catalogue of seeds for exchange at the Jardin _ 
deg Panter ae just Reon received. It contains 18 quarto pages, 4 col- 
umns toa 
THE REGENCY of the Smithsonian Institution, eee vacant by the 
ge of Dr. Gray, has been tendered by the U.S. Senate to Prof. Andrew 
White, Seitagidenit of Cornell University. 
THE Journal of Botany for February contains descriptions of 4 ne 
ferns and 13 n ow Talentinn a Dr. Baber, in his synopsis of the Tilland- 
Siew, has reached the 165th species of Tillandsia 
Mr. A. P. Morcan continues bus scateiaitone on the “ Mycologic 
flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio,” in the Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. for Jan- 
pow he paper iisksla the order Pkalened under Hymenomy- 
ean oeepenae  e 
“SCHIFFNER, Dr, Vicror.—Ueber Verbascum-Hybriden und einige neue ugnyeg ee 
yerbaseum Pyrimidatum M. B. oer potanica, heft 3.) 15 pp., 2 plates, 4°. 
Theodor Fischer, 1887.—4 m 
