328 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ December, 
THE PROCEEDINGS of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 
Science for the 1888 meeting have been distributed. The botanical sub- 
jects are as follows: Flora of the jack-pine plains of Michigan, by W. J. 
Beal, chiefly an enumeration of seventy-two of the most characteristic 
with the slightly less number of cavities in the fruit; Some preliminary 
notes upon the relation of our native and naturalized flowering plants to 
soil and climate, . R. Lazenby; New observations on the fungus of 
black rot of grapes, and Successful treatment of black rot, by F. L. Scrib- 
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Dr. Istvanrrt, of Klausenburg, describes (Bot. Centralblatt, xxxv, 
343) methods for preparing various sorts of fungi. In alcohol one can 
