430 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
pass any engraving that can be made. They can be had at 50 cents per pair, 
or mi ones of either side at 25 cents, tf iidromieg Pacu’s Stupio, Cam- 
BRID Ss. 
ae EXCERPT from the transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 
gives a list of the parasitic fungi of Mindi nsas_ by Professor bers It in- 
THE MOsT saresiose _ tive of the ma ee ee ‘Swiss humilis, Zuce., 
ae never — found since it was collected by Karwinski, e than fifty years 
ago. beable tires consequently attaches to a ne apocrine of flowers, 
ote pod. mature fruit which have recently heen sent to the Gray Herbarium 
by M. D This species, like its OE § is an inhabitant of ceeoat Cen- 
tral America. 
exs ) . 
um Nutt. should be written instead of ischeri, as our American species es is 
distinct from its Asiatic representative. Cf. Bot., balif,, ii. 4 28. 
Pro R TRELEASE’s paper on “Several zooglee and related forms” 
contains descriptions of new species of a ss pha bacteria as — ows: Bac- 
terium ca m, B. aurantiacum, B. luteum, B. chlori “— B. incarnatum, The 
other species gore were Mieroeove us aedidus Coha, erium tumescens Zopt, 
B. violaceum Bergonz., B. hyalinum Ktz., Cladothrit Shoes "Cohn, Leptothriz 
lis Robin, Sauckaromyees ities (Fres. ), and var. candidus of the same, 
named by Tre lea 
THE MOVEMENTS of p rotoplasm in WS toed cells wel a interfered with by 
the one method of sectioning and mounting ced Dr. de Vries has ha 
8 usin 
toplasm to recover “its mobilit 
_ INTERESTING Ex PERIMENTS a. been tried on the temper a of growin 
te by Dr. Ord, given in the British Medical Journal. He - tender 
po i i i 
varyi degree W 
also recorded between the two extremities of the fruit, which represent different 
stages of growth. This is suggestive of an interesting line = research. 
THE occuRRENCE of protoplasmic eesti in plant cells has recently been 
carefully investigated b aor: Te d e Vri Wit t panne } allisnerva 
and Anacharis it is usually ear Ly calls which in not united into tissue, iso 
Siadodate of fungi, alge, Chara and Nitella, and in higher plants in hairs, ag 
d very young embry He soug determine if it did not occar Ze 
other cells, and has arrived at the ag ge that (1) it occurs in cel ie 
most diverse rome and that (2) it may be observed in all strongly Bm 
Tra 
cells in any organ taken from hee ny 
I ge, vigorously assimilating plan 
ia rosea and Tropeolum majus were the special examples investigated. 
