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We would offer but one criticism, and that is the unnecessarily harsh way in 
which reference is made to the merging of “Microscopy” into Biology. As 
Section G asked for the change, and thus acknowledged its own unnatural ex- 
istence, the “ I-told-you-so” was hardly courteous. 
A Revisron of the N. Am. species of the genus Seleria, by Mr. N. L. Brit- 
ton, has just been published in the Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. iii, No.7. Mr. 
that this brief paper is but a prelude to the promised revision of Cyperus, 
Eleven species of Scleria are characterized, none of them new, with full bibli- 
ography, synonymy, and range. S. laza Torr. becomes S. Torreyana Walpers, 
while several new varieties are added to the other species of the Manual. 
Mr. J. G. Baker, in the Journal of Botany for September, gives a synopsis 
of the Cape species of the Liliaceous genus Kniphofia, with descriptions of five 
_ species. The genus is strictly South African, including Madagascar, and 
this synopsis shows eighteen species. The same author, in the same journal, 
gives a classification of garden roses, which is surely something sorely needed. 
sae be necessary, as suggested at Ann Arbor last August, for systematic 
botanists to turn more of their attention to a classification of cultivated plants. 
: Mr. Toomas Hick, in the Journal of Botany, notes the results of a study of 
the Caulotaxis” of British Fumariacee. By “caulotaxis” is meant the 
arrangement and relation of the central and lateral axes of a plant. The axis 
. —_ plants is generally sympodial, and the excellent plan was adopted of 
studying the formation of this pseudaxis in developing plants. As a result it 
Was plainly seen how the leaf-opposed flower clusters are really terminal, 
oe aside by a more vigorous branch, a result which exactly accords with 
theoretical statement of our text-books. 
: WE commen the effort of Queen & Co., of Philadelphia, to produce a ser- 
ee laboratory microscope. In the August number of their Microscopical 
stg (an excellent little journal, by the way) they ask teachers to communi- 
ope. It looks as if 
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‘instrument makers were waking up, and would not much longer force us 
mmon daily use. 
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™port from foreign makers, when a stand is wanted for co 
ecg A. A. Crozier, of the University of Michigan, has published a thesis 
ating the title, “The Modification of Plants by Climate.” It has brought 
Seis i. fruitful, and all parts become more hig 
As, eaf surface is often increased, their form mod 
Pm Their period of growth is also shorten 
to de ed and they are enabled 
Velop at a lower temperature.” 
