134 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 3 
Pror. D. P, PeNHALLOW has a long ee in the Popular Science Monthly 
for July on the nature of the diseases of plan an 
DrervILia CANADENSIS, Willd. has become wild ii in several pew 0 
many, according to the Botanische Monatssch rit. al 
F. SoAcua, of Deutschbrod, Bohemia, i is preparing a flora of Austro 
gary, to contain specimens of the plants described. oie 
GENUINE TRUFFLES have been found in California, mee to 
W. Harkness. They are, however, small and of no comme cial value. Re 
THE EXPERIMENTS of Mr. George Murray, of the fait rea se 
that perfectly healthy and uninjured liye salmon may be attacked by i 
Iyternationan HorticunruraL EXxHIsirion at St. Pee 
i kuanded a medal to Dr. Gobi, the Russian algologist, for his remarkable 
arium. 
of the 
ScHWENDENER, of Berlin, has heen elected foreign associate 
Dr. 8. Sc 
Linnean =e of icudon: to fill the vacancy made by the death of Dr. 
Engelman ute 
N & Co. have in press an illustrated work, by nko ki 
Smith, on dissaats of field and garden crops. This is the first work of the | 
in the ge language, and one much needed. 
F. TRELEASE figures and describes the rose rot, Peronospora a 
bel Sears Monthly for July. It has become troublesome in the gree? : 
3 Philadelphia, and threatens to spread and cause-much loss to Sori 
Mr. Joun C, BRanner has contributed a valuable study on the * of the 
and Growth of the Fibro-vascular Bundles in Palms” to the Proceedings again. 
American ee, Society, which we shall take occasion to refer to Z 
Wr N FROM the Providence papers that a Mrs. Metcalf has ae 
Brown Chisels thirteen acres of valuable land in that city for the est@ ae 
ment of a Botanic Garden. We sincerely hope that the information is au : 
tic. 
Mr. War ALTER Deane, of Cambridge, Mass., reports having found i : 
Myurus, L. growing very abundantly at Nantaoket. Mass., a locality mue 1 « 
ther north than that given in Gray’s Manual. Speeunscn have been de 2 
in the Gray Herbarium : 
E Gazerre has a delayed this month that we might be able ae 
sent as full an account as possible of the attractions for botanists at the co™ 
meeting of the A. A. A:S. Let-all who can possibly do so attend this ™ 
None will be disappointed, 
THE THIRD MEMOIRE 0 
cines Caulinaires, or the arr 
Ro- 
n rhizotaxy, by M. D. Clos, is devoted ned Des 
them into those ( 
bin 
angement of roots arising from stems. ser 
a) of the Nodes, aS of the internodes, and (¢) of the tw? ‘aall 
: é first division is the | t, and is divided into those (1) va lay 
placed, (2) beneath the nodes, (3) siactvolings the nodes, and (4) strictly axil 
The same mode of growth generally pervades a genus or order. 
