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needle shows a line of pollen stuck fast to it. By the same thrust any adherent 
pollen is rubbed off upon the stigmatic hairs above. We have thus a neat ar- 
rangement by which the proboscis is smeared with a mucilage just before it 
reaches the pollen grains—W. E. Humpnrey, Botanical Laboratory, Wabash 
College. 
A New Grass.—Dryruxra MacountAna. Culm 60 to 90cm. high, slen- 
der, leafy: sheaths mostly as long as the internodes, smoothish; ligule about 
2mm, long, lacerate; leaf-blades narrow, 15 to 25cm. long, attenuated to filiform 
point: panicle 10 to 12cm. long, narrow, open, 2 to 4em. in width, branches 
mostly in fives, approximate, slender, erect: spikelets somewhat crowded on the 
upper part of the branches, 2mm. long: empty glumes nearly equal, purplish, 
lanceolate, acute, finely scabrous on the back: flowering glumes 1jmm. long, 
ovate-oblong, somewhat truncate and 2-lobed at the apex, the lobes finely den- 
ticulate; awn above the middle of, the glume, straight, reaching to the apex : 
palet about one-third shorter than its glume, bifid, denticulate at apex: hairs 
copious, as long as the flowering glume. 
e panicle resembles tat of Agrostis vulgaris, and the flowers are smaller 
than those of any other of our species. 
Collected in the N. W. Territory, British America, by J. M. Macoun, for 
whom it is named.—Gro. Vasey. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Pror. Dr. J. Rorrer died at Rostock, Germany, on March 17, aged $4 
ears, 
Dr. awd Mrs. Gray have returned in good health ee ene 
Western trip. 
J.C. Dix, author of the Flora of Baden, died at associ eats 
March 10, at 77 years of age. 
Pror. PLancuon, of Montpellier, has received 
franes for his memoir on the Ampelidees. me 
Dr. Joan Grisz, author of a work entitled De Potentillis Hungaria, died 
on February 19th, at Csiktornya, aged 72. i ; 
: Iv skems THAT holly leaves above the reach of cattle often lose their leal 
“pines; which is on a par with Polygonum amphibiun developing pubescence 
: when lacking isolation by water. 
WELL ILLUSTRATED article, by Rev. J. L. Zabriskie, on some aetgeS ta 
tous fungi, which grow out from caterpillars, grubs and scale insects, is give 
m the April number of the Journal of the N.Y. Microseopial Society. = 
F. L. Scrrpyer, formerly of Girard College, has heen, spre aie 
anist to the Department of Agriculture, and se magi ee avail 
to microscopic fungi, especially those affecting and injuring cu 
the De Candolle prize of 500 
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