BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 231 
THE HERBARIUM of the late Duval-Jouve has fallen to the Faculté des 
Sciences, at Montpellier, the place of his residence. 
A Frencu Socrirt: Myco.ocique will be established with the beginning 
of the new year, with Dr. A. Mougost, of Bruyéres, Vosges, as secret 
Or THE worKERS who have been really studying the diatom shell, none 
seems entitled to greater credit than Dr. J. D. Cox, ex-Governor of 
Tue TRYING PERIOD through which the study of the rusts ( Uredinew) is now 
passing is leaving its impress upon the nomenclature in such specific names as 
verans (Farlow) and perplexans (Plowright). 
POLLEN GRAINS and an anther of Papaver Rheas, taken from funereal 
garlands found in Egypt, have been figured by C. A. White, in the Journal of 
the Linnean Society. The Garlands were made about 1000 B. 
H. Kiepaun believes that the chief function of lenticels is to facilitate 
the admission of gases to the interior portions of the cortex. Otherwise their 
entrance would be almost blocked by the impervious outer portions. 
Tue amount of insoluble mineral substances which acumulate in the 
leaves of plants has been found to be in some cases as much as 20-25 per cent. of 
their weight. In stems the per centage is much lower, and in roots still less. 
MarsineA mMacropus Hook., bearing the common name of Nardoo, is 
4 recommended by R. Schomburgk, Director of the Botanic Garden of South 
3 Australia, as a valuable forage plant for that country. The sporocarps are 
used as food by the natives. 
: A PAPER on THE Myxomycet®s, their habitats, modes of collection, preser- 
vation, ete., prepared by Dr. George A. Rex, of Philadelphia, one of the most 
Suecess ul and enthusiastic students of these plants in this country, will be 
given in an early number of the GAZETTE. 
: Tue FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of the Agricaltural 
University of Wisconsin contains botanical matter 0 
age is treated by Prof. W. A. Henry, and the onion mold, apple scab and leaf 
blight, and when the leaves appear, by Prof. W. Trelease. 
: Mr. Henry O. Forses, studying the contrivances for fertilization in cer 
tain tropical orchids, comes to the conclusion that ‘<a number of orchids are 
ot fertilized by insects, but are so construeted as to enable them to fertilize 
hemsel ves,” The paper was read before the Linngan Society. 
omg E. 8. Gorr, in an article on the “ Relation of Color to Flavor in 
Fruits and Vegetables,” in the American Naturalist for December, points out 
what appears to be a constant relation between the variation in color of the 
reo portion and its mildness and flavor—the lightest colored being the mild- 
Experiment Station of the 
f special interest. Corn 
‘ Mr. Cuas, Prowricnr, at a recent meeting of the Linnean Society, speak- 
“g with reference tothe reproduction of certain Uredinew, affirmed that when re- 
Production takes place without secidiospores, the resulting uredospotes are far 
ao eaet than when they come from wcidiospores sown upon the host- 
