BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 179 
Dr. Gray’s paper before the British Association at Montreal was one of 
the five papers which only will be printed in full in the Proceedings of the As- 
sociation. 
Pror. Lesrer F. Warp has published in the Proceedings of the Biologi- 
eal Society of Washington a list of 41 species, to supplement his Flora of 
Washington. 
Pror. FepErico DELPINO, well known for his numerous studies on the 
fertilization of flowers by insects, has accepted a call to the chair of botany in 
the Univ. of Bologna. 
Tae Brrrisn AssocratTion devotes £1,515 the present year to the aid of 
Seientific research, of which biology receives £515, or rather zoology, for not a 
penny is given to botany. — 
Dr. Asa Gray, together with several other British and American visitors 
'o the British Association in Montreal, was the recipient of the honorary degree 
of LL. D. from McGill University. 
Tue DELivery of certain scientific works to the subscribers to circulating 
libraries of Russia, among which are the writings of Darwin, Huxley, Agassiz, 
Lubbock and Spencer, has been interdicted by Imperial decree. ~ 
A NEW Saprolegnia is figured by W. G. Smith, in the Gardener’s Chronicle 
for August 23 of current year. It forms an abundant white felt over the gills 
of bedding mushrooms, and produces oospores only when placed in water. 
THE common y ARROW, Achillea Millefolium, L., as we learn from Mr. Car- 
ruthers, of the British M useum, is so much relished by cattle in es v8 
kept so closely cropped that it is rarely to be seen in pastures, which is contrary 
€Xperience in this country. . 
« Tue BuLLetin or tHe Torrey BorantcaL Civ for are promi 
List of Cyperacer,” collected by tlie late Mr. S. B. Buckley in the valley of 
the Rio Grande, in Texas and northern Mexico. Cyperus ee 
otdes and Heliocharis Texuna are described as new species. 
Uxprr Tae Name of Blue Mountain tea, Mr. Meehan, in the : wheres 
Monthly for September, states that the leaves of Solidago odora are quite exten- 
“ively used as a beverage. It has upon its own merits come to have a commer- 
Cla] Value, being sold in the Chicago markets and elsewhere. 
HE Boranicat Papers read at the British Association at Montreal were 
On the identification of animals and plants of India — mei 
mentioned by early Greek authors, by V. Ball; On the Jessup collection to 
illustrate the forestry of the U.S. in the New York Natural History Museum, 
» Bi kmore; Notes on the occurrence of bacteria on coins, by L. Els- 
berg; Remark on the characteristic features of North American vegetation, by 
Asa Gray ; Result o 
On the di 
f the investigation of insular floras, by W. B. Helmsley ; 
atomaceous remains in the lake deposits of Nova Scotia, by A. H. 
} Observations on the trapping of young fish by Utricularia vulgaris, 
N. Moseley, 
