1888. | BOTANICAL. GAZETTE. 105 
has been rendered by Dr. Huth in bringing together in one monograph ® 
a concise account of the plants having fruit with hooked or barbed prick- 
les or spines. He makes five classes: (a) those in which the roughness 
also assists the plant in climbing during growth, as the bedstraws; (b) 
those from which the seeds are projected, as the Martynia and other 
common kinds in which this property is not always noticed ; (c) the rare 
anchor burs, ¢. g. Trapa natans; (d) the boring fruits, such as Stipa, Ero- 
dium and other grasses; and (e) clinging burs, like the stick-tights. 
Most of the space is devoted to a brief systematic account of all bur-pro- 
ducing plants, 163 genera being mentioned. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
“ SOME COMMON THISTLES” is the title of < illustrated paper by Prof. 
L. H. Pamme!l in Colman’s Rural dda (March 9). 
Proressor J. C. LyForD is giving a course of ilvietaatedt botanical 
leriaizas hetins the Worcester (Mass.) Natural History 
Dr. Curistran LUERSSEN has been called from the pace sobs at 
Eberswald t ah professor pe botany and director of the botanic garden 
at Konigsber 
THE METHOD of bleaching, staining and mounting the unsectioned 
leaves ae aa of ferns is described by the careful preparateur. Rey. 
J. D. King, in the Microscope for March. 
FESSOR BAYLEY es a fas Lt elected to the chair of botany © 
in Edinburgh University, made vacant by the death of Dr. Dickson. This 
lea aves a vacancy in the botanical department at Oxford. 
Dr. Gray’s last writin the American Journal of Science 
for March, being the Bota nical Neeroloy for ABST. The list co the 
names of W. E. Tolmie, John Gol @ oth. of pee ges aie doh 886), Albert 
Kellogg, William Boott, Ezra ee 
Dr. GrorGeE L. Goopae has in the past two months ey a course 
of twelve fechas at the Lowell Institute in Boston, on 
ucts 
iveness as a lecturer, the course must have been caceedingly a interesting. 
PRESUMPTUOUS and unblushingly egsitin article on the germ of 
fa 
the southern cattle plague i i ierosco 
oor K. Bi ety “director of the p tho-biglogiens laboratory 
of the State University of Nebraska,” laying claim t all hi er a 
straw in the study of this subject. If this is the manner In Ww ’ 
sun of original investigation seems to be rising in the west,” we mia ied 
the credit of American science that its rays may be kept under 
a8 much as possible. 
ma GE ee eee 
ar derer Beriicksichtigung jhrer Ver 
epithe Stanien mete) ws pp 78 roms Cel 
aa hee Thiere. 
Theodor Fischer, 1887,—4 m 
ale’s gre attract- 
