7° ; BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
new species are described, about one third of which are Labiatae; and to 
the same family the single new genus (Sy#phostemon) belongs.—J. M. C 
THE SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS by de Wildeman and Durand, setting forth 
the flora of Congo, has now reached the completion of the second fas- 
cicle.3 In this fascicle it is stated that the number of spermatophytes, which 
a year ago was estimated to reach 1500, has now reached 2000. The fascicle 
deals with collections made by Belgian explorers, officers, and missionaries, 
and contains the descriptions of about twenty-five new species.—J. M. C 
THE FIRST VOLUME of Wiesner’s Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches \s 
now completed by the publication of the fifth part. The subject of yeasts is 
completed; products of alge and lichens are elaborated by Dr. F. Krasser 
(31 pp.), of which the most important is agar, and carrageen or “ Irish moss," 
dye-yielding lichens, “ Iceland moss,” and “reindeer moss.’ Dr. W. Figdor 
treats the galls (27 pp.), and Dr. F. von Héhnel the barks (96 pp.), with which 
important section the volume concludes.—C. R. B. 
Dr. H. A. HARDING, of the N. Y. Agricultural Experiment Station at 
Geneva, has found that the black rot of cabbage and allied plants is a wide- 
spread disease in Europe,’ which has been overlooked by continental pathol- 
ogists. He observed it in the vicinity of Versailles, Bern, Ziirich, Karlsruhe, 
Bonn, Harlem, Fulda, Halle a. S., Berlin, Kiel and Slagelse in the course of 
some months of travel in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, 
and Denmark in the autumnof 1898. Only in Switzerland and Denmark did 
the disease seem to be of economic importanc B. 
THE Proceedings of the Indiana pre of Science for 1889, just 
received, en the following botanical papers : “Contributions to the flora 
of Indiana,” and “Some unrecognized forms of native trees’ (Asimina tri- 
loba, Jet nigra, Liriodendron Tulipifera, and Disopyros Virginiana), by 
STANLEY COULTER; “A list of plants collected at Cedar, Shriner, and 
Round Lakes,” by C. C. DeaM; “The resin ducts and strengthening cells of 
Abies and Picea (illustrated), by HERMAN B, Dorner; “A proteolytic 
enzyme of yeast,” and ‘Saccharomyces anomalus,” by KATHERINE E. 
GOLDEN; “Some problems in Corallorhiza,” and “The disappearance of 
Sedum ternatum,” by M. B. THomas.—J. M. C 
3 WILDEMAN, Em. DE ET DurRAND, Tu.: Annales du Musée du Congo. Bota- 
nique, série II. Contributions a la flore du Congo. Tome I. Fasc. 2. (2™* Partie.) 
4to. pp. ete Bruxelles: Charles Vande Weghe. July 1900. 
4 WIESNER, JULIUS: Die Rohstoffe des Pflanzenreiches. Versuch einer tech- 
nischen westatcllian tea 4s Picuscaae oak Ed. 2. Lief. 5. pp. 641-795, figs. 123-153: 
Leipzig: Wm. Engelmann. 1900. 
5 Die schwarze Faulniss des Kohls und verwandter Pflanzen, eine in Europa weit 
verbreitete bakterielle Pflanzenkrankheit. Centralbl. f. Bakt. II. 6: 305-313- P/- 2 
and map. 1900. 



