70 3 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ March,’ 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
E American Naturalist will hereafter be published by J. B. Lippin- 
cott vy Co, of Philadel hia 
PROFESSOR JoHN M. Counter was elected president of the Indiana 
sahil of Science for 1887. 
In GazeTTE fur December, 1886, page 330, in “ Explanation of 
Plate XL “ nye gracillima should read Carex debili 
A on North American Geraniacez has been presented to the 
Boston Society of Natural History by Dr. 
GH THE kindness of a member of the eienton the botanical 
taboratary- of Brown University is now equipped with six of Beck’s “Star 
E GAzertE for November, 1886, there is a mistake in Professor 
lgaces s a on the Black Rot. In n figure 8 the »should be mm. The 
cura as made in copying the figure 
INTERESTING fungus, Boletus dectotens B. & C., has been found 
igi a County, N. Y., by Dr. Charles E, Fairman. Hitherto it has 
a been connie in the southern states 
tip L. Corp, of Cleveland, O., qiies that Viola hastata and a 
white fowered variety of Cnicus cc eye east of that city, and that 
actuca Scariola is common in and about th ity. 
sa ALPH. ohne ae has just distributed a paper, from the Archives 
et Naturelles, on the nical origin of certain culti- 
vated pane and the peste causes of the extinction of certain species. 
EXPERIMENTS made by G. H. Whitcher ( Agricultural Soience, vol. Ip. be 
appear to show that the aerial roots of corn (maize), which are e produc 
most Saree at the time of flowering, give off ammonia during their 
grow 
E Journal of Botany (February) contains the description (with 
mis “of a fine new hepatic from Killarney, by Richard Spruce. It is 
called Lejeunea Holtii. A list of Jamaica mosses és nd Hepatics is : :tlso 
given by sents Boswe 
SocreTatuM peter is the title of a small month! hich Fried- 
y in whic 
lander & ‘Sohn, of Berlin, propose to give a bibliographic list of papers iD 
natural history Eero ky the societies of the world. It is 2 marks 50 
pig. a year, or about 
TH ue Bulletin o of bi hehe Botanical Club for February contains “ Notes 
on Diatoms, ye Henry Kain ; “ Note on the Inflorescence of Camellia 
uit, by EE Bien, ae a“ A Method of Drying Plants with Little 
of Gol, “i by Charles E. Smith, 
Is VERY much Saris to obtain copies of the January number 0 
1886 (V a “XL No. 1.) ny botanist it ed a duplicate copy Sie confer 
a great favor. by sen che it to the NICAL GazeTre, Crawlordsville, 
Ind. The regular price for single copies will be paid. 
GAZETTE has with eived much commendation for its very_full 
e December number of that 
ed in the GAZETTE as avail- 
and pip indexing will hereafter be one of its 
