BUTANICAL GAZETTE. 299 
and about one hundred new fies ies. The synopsis of shee and generic gaa p- 
ee ssa been very muc ved. No reg one of botany con ntains a more v xed 
synonymy, or is troub ih hth a grea o diversity ‘of, opinions in bextil to 
affinities, but Dr. Vasey and "Peek Scribner fave gotten them well in hand and 
promise yd to straighten them 
TERATOLOGY is a great study for those who can find much in it. A cer- 
tain ptolessor who will read this pest to tell us that monstros _ was from mon- 
stro, meaning sgeeshial pointed out, demonstrated. We grant the aptness of 
the definition, for morphological Hosislors ¥ in more cases ni are penopee 
0 of e avera 
minds us of a “side-show museum,’ ’ containing a three-l egged call "a double- 
headed rooster, and a man with six fingers 
A New Commissioner of Agriculture ee to mind the nature of the work 
done by that department, genera). followed by a thought concerning the work 
not done. e GAzeTreE has been very abstemious in its remarks in this direc- 
tion, but it imagines that the wae for distributing seeds is about over, and the 
de partment is t upon a higher grade of work. ere are many liv- 
ing questions in botany which demand investigation. Of ll physio- 
logical experim find their proper relations in agricultural work, especially 
those relating to germinati n, but the crying just now is for neral and 
systematic study of parasitic fu We have specialists fitted for the work, 
and it should be undertaken, not by one ma n, but b a commission dee ing 
the entomological commission. Iti Js to be hoped that the coming Congress will 
pay some attention to tl m the ae Associati ia which Fahoald 
be more vigorously pressed at the jas wee mee 
Tur ProcreprNas of the fourth and fifth came of the society for the 
Promotion of vith a trong science, which only just been issued, form a volume 
ae i | gr 
y F. Lamson Seri a list of cultivated food plants, by Dr. E. 
Sturtevant ; and lecture on caren investigations, by Dr. J. H. Gilbert. 
Tue Gazerre wish Be to hotanists in behalf of the meet- 
ing at Ann n Arhor next Augu st. a ngements for the song tl now being 
80 as to devote a week to 
Very botanist os r, as compact as Be 
lie? nigiege i a ag ee eles ritten and read, 'T his ee vf tal 
gina maudlin a for half an hour, when the same thing can be said a 
