180 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
From Hedwigia we learn that Baron von Thiimen has been obliged on account 
of his failing health to remove to Gérz, Austria, and to discontinue much of 
his mycologic work. He has concluded to offer the few remaining complete 
sets of his Mycotheca Universalis (Centur. I-X XII} at 200 marks, being six- 
ty-four marks less than the regular price. 
NUMBER TEN of the Memoirs of the University of Tokio is entitled “ Phy- 
tochemical Notices of Some Japanese Plants,” by Prof. J. F. Eykman, of the 
medical faculty. The following species have been studied: Andromeda Ja 
ponica, Scopolia Japonica, Macleya cordata, Chelidonium majus, Nandina 
domestica, Orixa Japonica, and Skimmia Japonica. The memoir is in German. 
THE “Loco WEED,” or one of them at least, is Astragalus mollisimus, Torr., 
according to Prof. T. C. Porter in the Gardener’s Monthly. Experiments hers 
performed by Dr. Isaac Ott, of Easton, Pa., during 1882, with infusions of this 
plant received from Western Kansas, and the same effects produced as the 
stock men of that region ascribe to it. Its active principle is doubtless a pow- 
erful poison. 
WHILE ATTENDING thé American Association, we had the pleasure of ex- 
amining a number of both the original drawings and proofs of: the plates for 
for Prof. Beal’s new work on grasses, and found them of superior quality. 
The artist is Prof.‘F. L, Scribner, the agrostologist, whose excellent work should 
bespeak for him the patronage of other botanists, The engraving is by the 
Levytype process, 
of the Ustilaginew. A translation of an important contribution on this subject 
to Pringsheim’s Jahrbiicher fiir Botanik appeared sometime ago in the Report 
of the N. Y. Agric. Society. 
NEW MYCOLOGICAL journal is talked of, we hear. It is to bear the 
highly appropriate name Schueinitzia, and like the Italian journal Michelia, to 
be devoted to the publication of new species, and the collected descriptions of 
particular groups. We wish the enterprise the heartiest support, and mh ; 
that all, who are interested in it, manifest their appreciation by communicating 
with Mr. J. B. Ellis, Newfield, N. J. 
AN INTERESTING description of Michaux’s garden at New Durham, N. J. 
is given by Mr. H. H. Rusby in the Torrey Bulletin for August. The pegeker -. 
largely occupied by a cemetery, and almost no relic remains, the buildings a 
well as the trees and shrubs having disappeared. The original boundaries, # ni 
position of the principal objects were pointed out by the descendants of Mie 
aux’s associate, Saunier, who are now living in the vicinity. 
THE AMERICAN Mrcroscorrcan JOURNAL warmly endorses he : 
the American Association to create a greater interest in fungous peers 
Plants. It says: “The subject is one well worthy of liberal assistance; 
