BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 149 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Pror. W. W. Barzzy reports Galinsoga parviflora from Providence, R. I. 
Dr. J. Siamunp PoETscu, lichenologist, died at Randegg, in April last. 
WE notice by the lds Bulletin that Prof, W.J. Beal is preparing an 
illustrated work on grasse 
THE Deutsche eae Monatsschrift is an excellent journal of local botany 
published at Sondershausen, Germany, by Dr. Leimbach. 
THE geological survey of Minnesota is printing a poet: of the flowering 
plants and ferns of that State, giving their distribution, ete. 
R. J. D. Cox has come to the conclusion in his sae of diatom shells, as 
we ae from the Amer. Mo. Mier. Journal, that the areole are cavities inside 
the wall of the shell, while the ribs are thickening upon the surface 
Miss M. B. Frnt, writes hie Duchess county, N. Y.: “ Gatinam verum 
has rece cently appeared in the town of Stanford. I can trace its introduction to _ 
no cause. As Gray (Manual) echebasherd it to E. Mass., the mention of this station 
may be of interest.” 
THE PRESENT SEASON has been a remarkably good one for botanists in Ari- 
zona and Southern eoragen owing to the abet 8 heavy and long continued 
tains. Mr, P ngle, who is at work in Ariz and Sonora, writes that he is 
maki Ing a ange and rich éoliaiek in that pat an advertisement of which 
will appear lat 
THE New Part of the Synoptical Flora of N. America (Vol. I, pt. 2) is — 
ane t wi 
nited Base. or Canada, postpaid pee gar 2 
Pr WE HAVE RECEIVED from the author a: Rory y of . sae r . gic d ‘i 
of. James Fo wler, showing that Scirpus ( Blysmus) rufus, Schrad., was foun 
N. B. much earlier than the dates given b by Mr. Boott in the June nu a 
the Gaze ZETTE, p. 85. Mr. Fowler’s specimens were conoid at Eel River, Res- 
tigouche county, N. B. aaaat | 1, 1873. 
THE American Society of Microscopists had an interesting meeting at Ro- 
r. Dallinger 
arg aoea ge ar Ge read a Pe ron : 
ear, 
C. ArrHuR has been investigating the infectious nature of the 
Nation sree making numerous ex xperiments at the Agricultural el pees 
ee Geneva a. Eg _Inoculations of healthy twigs, leaves and fruit ca : 
he disease toa appear quickly, ailed results of the experiments are Nos 7 
il 7 preliminary notice a ‘the work done appears in Bulletin No. xett 
st 6. 
H Mr, wat OSEPH F, James, in the Journal of the Cincinnati Society era 
‘story, announc es that, “ while all the genuine Campanulas have bell-shaped- 
Croopin > pediceled fidwers, the spaciés oF § Specularia have rotate, erect a and ses, 
