30 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
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EDITORIAL NOTES. 
M. w’Appe Anzr, an Italian lichenologist, died recently. 
Pror. Dr. Tu. Nrrscuxe, director of the Botanic Gardens in Miinster, Ger- 
many, died August 30, in his fiftieth year. 
Wo. TRELEASE gave four lectures during the month of January be- 
fore the Johns Hopkins University, on the fertilization of flowers. 
Dr. Geo. Vasey, in the December Torrey Bulletin, describes two new species 
of grasses, Agropyrum Scribneri from Montana, and Sporobolus Buckleyi from 
Texas, 
Cari SALomon has recently published “ Nomenclator der Gefiisskryptoga- 
men,” giving the genera, species, synonymy and distribution of the higher 
cryptogams; a much needed work. 
Buuetin No. 7 of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, to be 
issued soon, will be devoted to a “ Descriptive Catalogue of the North American 
Hepatice,” by Prof. L. M. Underwood, of Syracuse University, 
Pror. Bukrrxt calls attention in Science Record to a common mistake of 
supposing that pébrine of silk-worms is caused by Micrococcus bombycis, when in- 
stead it produces the quite distinct disease of schlafsucht to which caterpillars 
are subject. : 
Tue Buuetrn of the Botanical Society of France contains an account of 
the germination of the oospores of Peronospora viticola, the grape mildew, stating 
that, contrary to preconceived opinion, zoospores are not formed, but a mycelial 
tube is at once pushed out. 
Iv tHe January Naturalist Prof. Bessey gives an account (with cuts) of 
hybridism in Spirogyra, observed last August at Ames. S$. majuscula and S. pro- 
fecta Were seen to conjugate, the zygospore resembling those of S. protecta, this 
species also being functionally the female. 
G. HABERLAUvDT sHows that the so-called rudimentary fibro-vascular bun- 
dle in the center of the stems of mosses is a water-conducting bundle. An 
aqueous solution of resin rises in the central bundle only, and quite rapidly 
there, when the cut end of a stem is immersed in it. 
THE sTATEs oF Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin are included in 
the last “Contributions toward a List of the State and Local Floras of the U. 8.” 
by W. R. Gerard and N. L, Britton, This list, when completed, will prove a 
most valuable one, as, judging by our own State, it is a most reliable one. 
strip of coastline not more than four miles long, the society is taking measures 
for its preservation. 
