264 _ BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
E LEARN from Science that Montreal is to have a fine botanic garden un- 
der the joint control of McGill University and the Horticultural Society. 
Professor D, P. Penhallow is entrusted with controlling influence in the execu- 
tion of the plans. 
THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY of Ellis’s North American Fungi is devoted to the 
parasitic species. There are 34 species of Puccinia, 18 of vidium, 7 of Uro- 
myces, 17 of Peronospora, and 7 of Entyloma, the remaining species being dis- 
tributed to 9 genera. 
In THE JouRNAL or Botany for March, Mr. F. Townsend presents an 
illustrated paper to prove “that the pale in the floret of grasses is the homologue 
of the ochrea and utriculus in Carex, and that the latter is a single floral en- 
velope, therefore the pale is also single.” 
Dr. J. T. Rorwrock, at a recent meeting of the Botanical Section of the 
Philadelphia Academy, called attention to the internal cambium ring in the 
stem of Gelsemium sempervirens, The result was that the pith was constantly be- 
ing encroached upon and finally almost disappeared. 
OwiNnG To work for the New Orleans Exposition, Mr. A. H. Curtiss was 
prevented last f i fascicle of Florida plants. He hasbewt 
£ £ a 
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able, however, t llect tly to ofte tma 
first fascicle. It contains 240 species and is sold for $18. 
Drs. Asa Gray and W. G. Farlow have been on a collecting tour through 
Mexico by way of the City of Mexico and Vera Cruz, and now at 
Angeles, Cal., which is to be their principal stopping place. On the way to 
Vera Cruz they found the flora and scenery remarkably fine. 
Mr. Joun Rosrnson read a very interesting paper last June before the 
Essex Institute, and published in their Bulletin, entitled “Botany in Essex 
County.” The record is a rare one, and with such names as Cutler, Oakes, Pick- 
ering, Osgood, and Russell, it is no wonder that the science became popular. 
Tue Western Drvaeist comes to us from Chicago with a department 
of “Botany and Microscopy,” under the direction of Prof, E. 8. Bastin. The 
chief article under it is entitled “ Directions for Preparing and Mounting Sec- 
tions of Stems and Leaves.” In another place Prof. Bastin gives an illustrated 
account of plant hairs, 
new species of Selaginella, The synopsis of the last genus by Dr. Baker has 
now reached 232 species, 
THE FIRST NUMBER of Nuovo Giornale Botanico Haliano for 1885 contains 8 
continuation of the Veronese flora, by A. Goiran, a reply by F. Tassi to Prot. 
Luigi Macchiati in reference to the effect of anesthetics upon flowers, and an 
anatomical description (with four plates) of the inflorescence of the female 
flower of Dioon edule (a Cycad) by G, Cugini. 
