278 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ October, 
higher and lower plants,” in the Am. Naturalist for August and: Septem- 
ber, 1887, has just been distributed as a reprint. 
AN ELABORATE study of the structure, development and affinities of 
Trapella, a new genus of Pedalines, is presented by F. W. Oliver in the 
Annals of Botany (June), and now distributed asa reprint. It is a Chinese 
plant of doubtful affinity, but this study rests it in Pedalinex, as the only 
genus of a new tribe. It contains certain structures of great interest 
biologically. The five handsome double-page plates form a fitting ac- 
companiment to a very fine piece of work. 
ONE of the best local catalogues we have seen is that of Middlesex 
county, Mass., prepared by Messrs. Dame and Collins.’ Not only is it 
printed with great care, but contains just the information one desires. In 
with an old country and one full of collectors, the list must be a very com- 
plete one. The summary shows an enumeration of 2061 species, 1,484 of 
which are phanerogams, 60 pteridophytes, 156 bryophytes and 361 thallo- 
phytes. Ina private letter the authors say that the name of Mr. L ©. 
Martindale was inadvertently omitted from the list of those who had 
aided in the work. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Sen & RECENT fire the Syracuse Botanical Club lost all of its collec- 
tions, books and instruments. 
_ Mr. Lester F. Warp’s add « inism ” has 
Saab tous diettctes, address on “Asa Gray and Darwin 
bhi Dr. G. F. Kont, privat-docent in Marburg, became associated with Dr. 
worm in editing the Botanisches Centralblatt on the first of August last. 
Mr. FW. ANDERSON, of Great Falls, Montana, has been appointed a 
special agent in the Division of Botany of the Agricultural Department. 
- ca Jowrnal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, in its first part 
rg contains a preliminary list of North Carolina Desmids by W. L- 
THE ILLUSTRATIONS of our nati 1 : < 
i ts in Garden and Forest for Au 
ust include ripedi native pian : sae 
ersoni (29th), yP pedium Californicum (8th), and Erythronium Hi 
M. L. Moror (in Journ. de botani. se 
: que) shows that the anatomical stru 
res Of the anomalous Adoxa Moschatellina are more suggestive of Sax- 
_ ifragacese than of Caprifoliacez, 
8 Dame, L. L., and Cotzins, F s.— 
ts hy y te De Fl * mi 201, with map. 
Malden: Middlesex : ora of Middlesex county, Mass. Pp 
