46 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Feb., 
what has already been said, it is noted that G. macropus, the common 
cedar-apple, is joined with R. pyrata,an American form of R. penicillata, 
E REGRET to record the death of Marshall P. Wilder, Dec, 17, in 
his eighty-ninth year, for many years president of the Am. Pomo ogical 
Soci aie + he ie The Gardener's 
e (Jan. 1), in an appreciative notice of his services, gives a charac- 
teristic extract from his last letter to them, dated March last, in which he 
mentions himself as “still living, and continuing to stir up the soil to see 
what it will produce.” 
In THE Journal of Botany (January), Drs. De Toni and Voglino call 
attention to the vexation of homonymous genera. No remedy is sug- 
e 
wus For instance, Antennaria is a genus of Compositze and ypho- 
mycetez, Chauvinis is a member of Chlorophycex and Gramineze, Cryp- 
todiscus is a Disecomycete an’ an Umbellifer, Leptotrichum is a Hypho- 
mycete and a moss, and so on. 
ECENT meeting of the Cambridge (England) Philosophical 
Society, Mr. Walter Gardiner ave an account of the gland-bearing or- 
. 
floral nectaries of these two families is to attract certain insects (proba- 
bly ants), which are of service in protecting the plant from the attacks of 
other and harmful insects, such as caterpillars, 
BRARY of Kew has just come into possession of the rarest and 
. 
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most valuable Japanese botanical work, the Honzo Dsufu, b _ Iwasatti 
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collection of about 800 species (10,000 specimens) of the plants of that 
e foe 
in diameter, and about two quarts in capacity.” Dr. Aitchison thinks 
these bowls do not serve as reservoirs of water. 
_ AT A RECENT meeting of the Linnean Society, Mr. C. T. Druery de- 
scribed a new instance of apospory in Polystichum angulare, var. pul- 
; paper on apospory was also read by Prof. F. O. Bower, 1n 
the course of which he showed how in Polystichum at least four different 
modes of the origin of the oo hyte may be distinguished, two being in 
connection with the sorus, while two are at points apart from the sorus, 
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