_, management, and upon the same plan as during the past year. Som 
198 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
HE FACILITIES FOR BOTANICAL INSTRUCTION at Harvard have recently 
been increased by the appropriation of the first floor of Harvard Hall together 
with rooms for constant temperature and studies in light to the use of the de- 
partment of vegetable physiology and histology. The former rooms at the 
Botanic Garden are reserved for the economic and systematic work which 
comes in the spring term. The eryptogamic department has excellent quarters: 
at the Museum of Comparative Anatomy. 
Pror. M. SraKer, state veterinarian of Iowa, and professor in the Towa 
Agricultural College, has been studying a new disease among horses of the Mis- 
souri valley. In mild cases of the disease the animals lose vigor, and after 
ome weeks die, but in more violent cases they become wild and nomena 
_ or pass into a stupor and live but a short time. The cause was traced to the eat 
of Crotalaria sagittalis, L.., a not distant relative of the famous “loco weed, ” As 
tragalus mollissimus, Torr. The disease is named crotalism. 
THE CONTROVERSY on the relation of cluster- -cups or ecidia to rusts, 
cially those on grasses, which has been caried on with much fervor in ‘Englan 
between Mr. W. G. Smith and Dr: M. C. Cooke on the one hand, and Mr. Plo 
of the waters. No botanist of note in this country advocates the antonomy | 
Aiidium and Restelia, although most of them believe it best to keep them sep- 
arate in our catalogues until their exact relationships have been determined 4 
cultures. Dr. Farlow is cited on both sides of the question, but no one who 
knows how thoroughly progressive although cautious he is, could for a 
ae IS HARDLY NECESSARY to make any announcement eoncerning the 
zerre for 1885. It is sufficient to say that it will be continued yor ee 
‘ tures will be added, but they will recommend themselves as they seal 
The rapidly erates departm e: 
ological and. cryptogamic botany will receive their full share ot va ia 
while systematic work in the higher groups will probably yet hold th 
tion of the greater number of our readers. W. d ask that our su? 
_ act as our agents, not that mone may be made, but that the Gaceris 
-taake still — advances in usefulness. 
