388 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Pror, Epouarp Rezet, the director of the Imperial Botanic Garden at 
St. Petersburg, celebrated the 70th anniversary of his birth the 13th of last 
August. A great number of his friends and collaborators joined in celebrating 
the day. 
. C. LEHMANN, who has spent over ten years in tropical America, has re- 
turned to his labors, after a short visit to Europe to arrange for the elaboration 
and publication of the results of his extensive collecting. He will make his 
headquarters at Popayan, United States of Colombia, and especially investl- 
gate the conditions of plant distribution. Ps 
THAT WE NEED some popularized information on the subject of parasitic 
fungi is shown by a recent editorial note in a leading horticultural paper which 
Says, in reference to the new work entered upon by the Agricultural Depart- 
ment, that, “ Prof. Trelease has been engaged to work up the diseases of plants, — 
and Mr. Scribner to work up the microscopic plants. : 
AN EAR OF RICE pop-corn, sent to the New York Agricultural Experiment 
Station, as a new variety, under the name of Bear’s Paw, was peculiar in being 
flattened in a fasciated manner. Four hills were planted and thirteen ears 
grown, of which twelve showed fasciation like the original. It is, to all ap- 
pearances, the transmission of a malformation : 
Bovernment, and with {nll success. The reason it has not been carried ee ’ . 
recent years is evidently not due to the increased cold of northern regions, 
usually maintained, but to the fact that cattle raising was more proftal 
ACKEL, in his monograph of the European species of a eee 
that the histological characters of the leaf are of great diagnostic value, eV 
for closely related varieties and forms. Of the various tissues the clr 
offers the best characters, and the epidermis comes next, while the mesophy 
and fibro-vascular bundles are quite uniform and worthless for this danie* 
R. G. L. Goopare returned on the 26th of September from a be - | 
in Germany, whither he sailed about the first of August. He went panied 
recreation, but visited a few of the chief laboratories. A conference ihe! dis- 
Carl Zeiss will result in the production of a cheaper and more conyere the 
secting microscope, a large number of which have already been ordered for 1 
botanical laboratory at Cambridge. reserve 
ROFESSOR D, P. PennaLtow has treated of the distribution of thet ie ot 
material of plants in relation to disease in the Canadian Record of ia, that 3 
October, © uses the peach tree as an illustration, and shows, inder alta, d the 
relation exists between the amount of starch deposited in.the bark an 
