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— ee Vergleichende Morphologie und Biologie der Pilze, Mycetozoen und Bac: 
178 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
The copper plate serves also to direct the bubbles upward into the tubular por- 
tion of the burette. As the water is evaporated by the shoot, the exact amount 
can be read off, by means of the graduations of the burette. The entire appa- 
ratus may be supported by an ordinary burette stand.—C. R. B. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Lupovico Canpest died at Faenza, Italy, in May last. 
Gro. BentHAM died Sept. 10, at the age of 84. 
P 2 B. Dexronre, late Professor of Botany in the Univ. of Turin, Italy, is 
ea 
D; 5 om & Co, have announced a new series of scicnce text books, in- 
cluding botan 
Dr. Lars 6 ae Larsson, author of several valuable floras, died in July 
at Karlstad, Sweden 
Ir 18 stated in Miller’ 's Eucalyptographia that 13 par of Eucalyptus oil in 
1000 parts of fluid prevents the development of bacter 
THE NEW BIOLOGICAL laboratories of the Paiva) of Pennsylvania are 
expected to be ready for occupancy in November. 
Dr. Gray, Mr. John Ball and Mr. Wm. Canby took a botanical. trip to 
Roan ck after the close of the American Association. 
. E. Bessey, of Ames, Iowa, has been tendered the chair of botany 
in the Halsesiie of Wolo aks, and it is ramored that he will accept. 
L. H. Barney, JR., is writing a series of “Talks About Weeds” for the 
American Cultivator. The fertility of the Canada thistle is discussed in No. 11. 
PORTANT treatise on fungi by Dr. de Bary has just been issued under 
tp JAPANESE government has made a large and interesting pp both 
botanically and economically, of the native ligneous flora and its ducts, at 
the International Forestry Exhibition now in progress at London. 
THe JAPANESE make toothpicks from the wood of the common snowballs, 
( Viburnum Opulus), rope from the stems of the Chinese Wistaria, and oil from — 
the seeds of Camellia Japonica 
PERIMENTS made bby A. Adrianowsky of Moscow, given in a late number 
of the Sasa Centraiblatt, showed that diffused daylight had no influence 
upon the germination of a but to retard the process, and the older the seeds 
the greater the retardatio 
A CONSIDERABLE amount of interesting botanical literature annually finds 
its way into the reports of agricultural and horticultural societies. The follows 
has just come to hand: “A grain of corn,” by Prof. C. R. Barnes, in Rep. 
Bd. of Agric., 1884. “Two parasitic fungi” and “Functions of the leaf,” by Dr. 
. E. Bessey, and “ Mildew of growing plants,” by Prof. at C. Arthur, in Trae. 
Towa Hort. Soc., 1883. 
