March, — 
72 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ March, 
i umber — 
species of fungi, and notes on nearly as many de Brae 7 atin 
a this series is not yet printed. It is little short of disgrac h oxaaneell 
portant printing undertaken by the state is subjected to such e3 
ing delays. 
ing to the 
THE SarRacenta pitchers at Kew have begun to decay oma pes 
putrefying mass of insects they contain. a note to the 
Chronide (January 21), Mr. Watso 
of the plants when, by the decay of the p = a 
ited 3 the ground directly above where the roots find mene ; 
THE FIRST FAScicLE of Acta Horti Petropolitani for 1887 is at hand, 
C 8 i kestan, 6 of which sep 
Cousinia (12 pp.): Trautvetter on the flora of Dagestania (40 pp.); ate 
Kuntze on the plants of Eastern Russia (128 pp.),in which are propos 
new genus of Umbelliferse (Schumann e im ‘Asia. aid 
species; Regel on the species of Allium (138 species) in middle pan 
Xe bie of some plants in the Imperial Garden at St. Pete 
(113 pp,). 
: aie 
THE InpDrana ACADEMY oF SCIENCE held its third annual meeting 
Indianapolis December 28 and 29, 1887, Besi 
Fr 
: mE 
- Voulter; Additions to the flora of Indiana, by G. oe 
bard; Characters in Umbel JN. i 
by Walter H. Evans; Life histor 
