ei BOTANICAL GAZETTE. Ss 
AN INDEX of the habitats of the fungi in Ellis’ North American Fung 
cent, XI to XX.,has been compiled and published by W.C. Stevenson i r. 
It si oN a great service to users of the work 
W BuLuetin for May contains information concerning 
— Brazilian gum-arabic, Trinidad a patchouli, Cochin 
ina vine, Ma 25a ess and Shantung cabba 
as published a pamphlet tile “ Grasses and 
Forage Pl ants of Sera. ” It is of great piesa to the farmers of that. 
country, and contains twenty plates of the common grasses 
Dr. T LEITGEB, well known for his classical researches on the 
Hepatice, rofeeaor of botany and director of the Bota meen al at. 
Graz, te on the 5th of April, in the fifty- third year of} his 
alian Journal of Botany ( April 7) there are dented numerous 
Gases of teratology, illustrated Baige> four plates, thus bringing, together @ 
ge amount of information ose i aaviced ted in this subject. 
A SUPPLEMENTAL list of cia on North American fungi, by 
Farlow, has been issued as No. 31 of the bibliographical contributions va 
_ the eda of Sees University, being a continu a 
a have been. car i and issued in one volume, as Noa xxxi of the Smith- 
sonian Miscellaneous Collections. psbioate aro Mave been made, as ape 
_ could be done upon the electrotype plates. 
Directions for pr eparing twenty-three fungicide solutions or pow- 
ders ar are _ ina ot Agri bulletin o he wee of veers pathology 
HE BULLETIN of the Botanical Salonen Ff the State Agricultural 
“College of Iowa for 1888 has been issued. It contains the account of a 
ount of work done by Dr. B. D. Hals wy a his pupils. Almost 
pe a of botany is touched upon, from bacteria to Iowa weeds. 
eronospora, P. Lapponica, from Lapland, on Euphras 
A cil aViben ia 
er P aen vais a aay bi sa ah last Botaniska Notiser (p. 49). It differs from 
€ pest by its larger and colored conidia, and more 
2 resembles P. sordida. It ft shoeld be looked for by collectors in 
THE “ i Memorial Botanical py tag) ” of the Agassiz Associa- 
# fonetitution and ought to be a very successful organiza 
TS are scattered thro aah several states, the presiden 
H. Hi cks, of , of 
aliradn Springs, ‘StF Mich., the secretary E. L. Byington 
€ new forms, 
Stem-leaves, iia thera remarks mui arama of the branch an 
sections o 
sicpe ol Will give special attention to collectin mosses, 40 
s to bring back ial attention to collecting frst 
objective hoint. Sia mehr eanauih collection. Vancouver are is ie - 
