382 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
berg and Hoppe is therefore the oldest name of C. misandra, al- 
though the plant was first recognized as distinct when Robert 
Brown named it C. misandra. Under the circumstances it ap- 
pears that Brown’s name should stand. 
The Study of the Parasitie Fungi.’ 
BY T. J. "BURRILL. 
. 
can be gained by any one, even with a moment’s thought, of the 
. 
80 seriously to affect the receipts for expended labor. Surely, 10 
many cases, there would be sufficient ground for discourage 
and hesitation to venture in Opposition to such an array 0 ht- 
gerous enemies, against whose insidious and covert attacks figh 
ing seems futile. ke 
But knowledge of the existence of such things can not man” 
that existence more hazardous, nor the results more distressing? 
while here, as in the other battles of life, to be forewarned ae 
forearmed. Knowledge is power, and as much so in this ore 
in any other; if the latter is still wanting, it is only because ‘< 
former has not been attained. Is it attainable? There are di 
culties in the way. The objects are very minute; we can - a 
them by the unaided eye as individuals, we can not thus bh 
their modes of dissemination, germination, growth and Aare 
ment; we only see them, if at all, in the mass, and know of 
es a 
an- 
‘ From Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat Hist., Volume II. 
