BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 19 
cant fact, for example, that while he mentions Puccinia graminis 
as “ vulgatissima in graminibus,” he does not chronicle Heidium 
_ Berberidis. 
‘The herbarium of de Schweinitz rests in the Academy of Nat- 
ural Sciences, Philadelphia. It is very much to be desired that 
a reprint be made of the Synopsis Fungorum, as it is practically 
inaccessible to the ordinary student. Still more desirable is it 
that a Synopsis Fungorum be compiled that shall include all the 
North American species identified and described up to the pres- 
ent time, and which now, perhaps, more than double in number 
the enumeration of de Schweinitz. 
A Botanical Holiday in Nova Scotia. IL. 
BY T. J. W. BURGESS, M. D. 
By June 21st we had exhausted the time laid out to be spent 
in the neighborhood of Halifax, and taking the Windsor and 
Annapolis Railway to the latter place, caught the steamer cros- 
sing to Digby. Here we were first able truly to realize the won- 
derful rise of the tide in the Bay of Fundy, our landing being 
made from the hurricane deck, then below the level of the whart. 
Quitting the boat for the rail again, we were soon on a road, the 
Southern Counties, which we concluded to be chiefly remarkable 
for the slow rate at which it could travel, no less than four and a 
half hours being taken to cover the 65 iiles between Digby and 
Yarmouth. 
At Yarmouth, the most southern point touched in our trip, 
we had expected to find considerable change in the vegetation, 
but this was less marked than we had looked for, so that a con- 
OF days in press, an hour under a hot sun serving to completely 
Cure specimens that would have taken four or five days changing ; 
