298 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Mr. F. O. Bower, lecturer on botany at the South Kensington Norm 
pe ans of Science, be been called to the chair of botany in the University sf 
Glasgow, made vac y the recent resignation of Prof. Bayley Balfour. 
ACOMO Bona , of the Botanical Garden of Padua, Italy, and_as- 
sistant in the Botanical Institute of the e place, ord recently. The la . 
bined. ‘vill ie ‘asia under the charge of Prof. Bdcarde 0. 
Mr. Joun Rostnson has prepared an extract from Professor Sargent’s For- 
estry Re cee “showing the sins gaa uses, Specific gravities, strength, e 
etc., of the native woods of Essex county, Mass. The specimens were furn ished 
by the Pe sod Academy of Boene. | in aha reports this paper is printed. 
THE nid tahl eli at ar REPORT on the N. Y. State Museum of 
Nitsa History for the year 1883 has ee issued, but includes the introduss 
tory part only of the paiai’s report by . Peck. We learn that it is 
the intention to issue the full report of. tie. botanist i in the form of a separ 
bulletin. 
Fascrcie II of American Medicinal Plants, published by Bericke & Ta- 
fel, of een has appeared. It is elaborate as the other, with col- 
ored ates of plants, drawn from life by Dr. C. F> Millspaugh. This ascicle 
dng ciel fap a some of which are poor and others good, and ranging 
m Hepatica to Equisetum 
THE PRocreprNes of ‘i PGiadelphia Academy for the first quarter of 
1885 contains Dr. Rothrock’s pa n the internal cambium ring in qo 
sempervirens, Prof. M pi on alta eo Seah ence in Cypripedium insigne, % 
Mr. Scri ner’s eo mie North American Melice, all of which have me 
been noticed in these 
TH HE ENUMERATION ve the North American cer cosporece with descriptions of 
the species by J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart, which has been running through 
s N. BrsHop, mes Plainville, Conn., has published a Baers of 
the revel ie plants of his State, which appe ars to be the first attempt of the 
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fore been attempted. Mr. Bishop neither numbers his species nor ie the 
IN THE CURRENT NUMBER (April) of the Nuovo Giornale Botanico Itali +! 
Prof. Danielli ; i gives an exhaustive study of Agate Americana, L., accompanie’ 
seven plates, aricwd y illustrating its histology. The paper is not only inter 
esting in itself, but also as illustrating the multitude of subjects a single spec!™ 
suggests. In this pe we have first a alae | of a species, arranged * 
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nd : 
ology, papi seat sad te to oat of tisk organ. At last geographical distri- 
A 
R. GEO. Vasey has issued a new and revised edition of his “ Descriptive 
Catatacus of the Grasses of the United States.” It contains several new gene 
