24 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ Jan. 
THE FIRST annual report of the forest commission of New York for 
hi published a short time since, contains, besides other valuable mat- 
Tr, an appendix giving a _ of works on forestry to be found in ten of 
the chie var of the country, ebestinn thirty-six pages, and nearly a 
hundred and fifty : additional titles of magazine articles 
the stb Pet of Puccinia coronata when mounted in water. When 
be vite wed the — — with great distinctness. 
GE American walnuts (Juglans nigra) are growing near 
London, aoodeding to : ‘sonegapoudant of the Gardeners’ Chronicle, which 
meen 29 inches each in cir rcumference, at four feet from the ground, 
con nearly the same size for fully fifteen feet upward, the total 
height of the trees being between ~ and 400 feet. This exceeds the size 
of eis dese mentione in Michau 
ers at hemo leave mec foot lon ng. A plan the conservatory 
of Cornell University has leaves about half as oe but it is found difhi- 
cult to kee m sufficiently free from unicellular a ne sedi- » 
Mr. KNow tron has (ghey, as a reprint from the Proc. Biol. — 
Soc. of Nshingtn a C.), Vol. III, additions to the flora of Washington 
e ide to 
lichens, by the sa same author; 4. Changes in nomenclature; 5. New locali- 
ties for rare species; 6. Species excluded, 4 in number. 
A VERY INTERESTING PAPER Fd Prof. C. 8. Sargent, in the A 
Journal tence for December 1886), gives some account of the journey 
cordata, as known in garden ns, is a rare and ae variety of M. acuminata, 
and as such Prof. Sargent describes it. Trac Michsax’s ’s journey in 
search of this form, the rare Shortia ealacitolins mow! rediscovered, undoubt- 
edly referred to by Michaux as “Arbuste,” with “f. denticulées.” In a note 
appended to Prof. Sargent’s 8 paper, Dr. Gra ann 13 
‘ ounces the rediscovery OF — 
Sh ante another station in the vicinity, Wont there were “rods covered 
a oF It looks as if this rarest of plants is at last found in sufficient 
pr agra a we ie Beh continuance, as well as to enable botanists t0 
obtain specimens of it at a reasonable expense 
