374 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Dr. J. M. ANDERS, in connection with Dr. G. B. M. Miller, has been con- 
tinuing his experiments in plant transpiration, and in the American Naturalist 
for September contributes a paper upon the exhalation of ozone by odorous 
plants. The conclusions reached by his experiments are as follows: 1. Flow- 
ering plants, including odorous and inodorous, generate ozone, the former, 
however, much more actively than the latter. 2. So far as tested, scented foli- 
age does possess the power to produce ozone, and in’ the case of pine or hemlock 
foliage in a marked degree. 3. Inasmuch as no reactions occurred on rainy 
days, it is highly probable that the function demands the influence of the sun’s 
rays, or at least good diffused light. 
Tue December Gazette will be a “ Laboratory Number,” being devoted 
to accounts of laboratories and laboratory methods. A letter from DeBary’s 
laboratory, brief descriptions of some of our own methods of work, subjects 
treated, appliances, little conveniences, etc., will be the general features. We 
would ask every laboratory worker to send us, within a short time, such an ac- 
count of his own laboratory and methods as he would be glad to receive from 
other botanists, not forgetting the “little things” which go towards making 
laboratory work easy. A list of of subjects that have been successfully treated 
by students is much desired by many of our workers. Such accounts will be 
edited so as to avoid repetition and at the same time lose nothing. 
THE FIRST BULLETIN of the new Société Mycologique was received a short 
time ago. Of the 130 charter members, only three are from the United States. 
The bulletin has 132 octavo pages and contains a list of Basidiomycetes of the 
Vosges, a new classification of the fleshy Discomycetes, a diagram of the excur- 
sion made at the first meeting, giving the points at which rare species were 
found, and closes with two poems addressed to mycophiles, recited at a soirée 
given the society at the country seat of Prof. Forquignon. The prime object of 
the society is to encourage a better general acquaintance with the edible and 
poisonous fungi, and it has made a very auspicious beginning, A branch or 
section of the society might profitably be established in this country. 
Miss Anna A. Stout, of New York, has announced her intention to bestow 
upon Brown University the valuable herbarium of her brother, the late William 
Stout. The collection is especially rich in ferns, and is accompanied by 4 fern 
library of about twenty volumes. Miss Stout has already mounted over 1,800 
sheets of ferns alone, and estimates that from 800 to 1000 more will be n : 
Probably Dr. Garber’s Florida phenogams will require 350 more, and the At- 
kinson collection of N. Himalayan ferns 560 to 570 sheets. Besides these there 
are many valuable duplicates of well known collectors. What is now sorely 
needed is a decent endowment of the botanical professorship. “A daily struggle 
for bread and butter is scarcely compatible with the best research, and Prol. 
W. W. Builey deserves more time for his own work 
: HYPERICUM GYMNANTHEMUM Engelm. & Gray has been variously con 
sidered either a species or variety of H. mutilum L. Recently a small clump 
0 plants was found in a bog near Posen (Western Germany), which turn out 
to be this same form of Hypericum. In the Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen 
