1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 279 
Reports from the recently established cL Dag es experiment sta- 
tions are beginning to come in rapidly. ave bee us various 
kinds of reports ro Indiana, Michigan, Tinos pe Tow 
Dr. Bessry (Am. Naturalist, June) RI po that the inj of 
chlorophyll- Seating tissue in young frui or the nutrition of 
telly in the seed, and remarks that this is ak important but potent 
THE LARGE and important collection of fungi belonging ad the late 
Dr. ‘ n purchased by the Botanical Museum lin 
It is well that — ee herbarium is to be kept na a and be 
accessible to stu 
ROLIFEROUS cee are not so common, and the Gardener's 
Chronicle (August 18) figures one that has three or four buds from the 
vie one of them so fully Gresniseh as See have leaves, adventitious roots, 
eginning runner and a terminal 
Pror. W. W. LEY reports ade ny te fully-doubled Aster, 
all the disk florets changed into ligulate ones, between Lake Oskawana 
and Garrison’s, N. Y., near Cowpens Mt. The species is probably A. macro- 
phyllus. All tis heats on the plant were so dou 
R. JOSEPH SCHRENK gives, in the Druggists’ eee sin ‘apen oo 
papers, entitled ‘Pharmacognostical notes on the coped 
Rusbyi,” and “ Pharmacozgnostical notes on the bark Kk of ‘Nowbo ™ 
levis, y "The papers are illustrated by two admirable figures. 
OUR KNOWLEDGE of 7 Rages of the interior of China is ee 
vancing, judging by the which lists ee 1G —— eee me 
published. In the fees of fsa (August) D rae qe 
two recent collections of ferns, among which are e desribed — 
pecie 
, Kew, Mrs . E.G. Britton im 
sules. The specimen was collected in 1 
gins = look ont always for fruit, even on specimens of species usually 
Gardens a 
ANNUAL REPORT (for 1887) of the Royal Botanic 
Trinidad has been distributed by dor very efficient sperendent 
Mr. J. H. Hart. A summary is given of the history © of the gar sally in- 
its present condition. The photographic , illustrations ev caraeiie ron 
ens: giving one a notion of the beauty and plan of the ga 
TH st two parts of the seventh volume of the Ann 
Naturale (Baanique) are almost eager devoted to an elabora te per 
by ourchet on chromoleucites. He discusses their de ge 
n the ales of a Pie e eeatl 
orm in which it exists, and finally denies, a mae study re ae 
ie 3 ? ced by the % 7H 
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memoir gives a host of details, and erines jea, and 
Work, Tea oes not, ep icin present an essontally new princi tinge 
agrees, in the main Pigs Schimper’s well-known CO 
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