48 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Feb. 
THE RELATION va say dec na to sexual variation, advocated by Meehan, 
ffmann and others, appears to se been observed long a 
Barbridge calls ailention, in the ners’ Chronicle, to a statement in 
Threkeld’s “Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicaram, ” published in Ate in 
= mp—in a lean soil more of the female; or where sown too thick, and 
wants nutritious saice, it is female.” Transposing the words “male 
ali “female’ to anne with present usage, and the nay agrees with 
recent investiga 
UNGUS DISEASES of the grape- ae is the topic of the second bulletin 
“4 the Botanical Division of the Department of Foe bie pepsi prepared by 
ribner. It contains ie pages, iy salrige d with seven excellent 
Labruscee). These are carefully lark rey naa botanically and pr racti- 
eopious index closes a paper which does credit to a Pepertinent and 
wilt be of ——, to both the lacie and eee 
THE al of Botany for January contains a biographical sketch 
(with porta) of the late Dr. H. F. Hance, oss red by F. B. Forbes. 
Dr. Hance was born August a 1827, in London, and died at Amoy (where 
Chinese Sera and his Sentebadond of late years, in the Journal of 
Botany, have made his name familiar to all botanists. Sir Joseph Hooker 
‘gi se th tlinw ine estimate of his scientific work: “With regard to Dr. 
nce’s botanical attainments and the value of his labors, I can eal in 
o interest in a botanical and economic point of view. In all that 
he attempted he aimed at critical accuracy in identification and diagno- 
sis, and this he attained in an eminent degree, so that there is no possl- 
a ses 
