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1887. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 95 
Dr. LorENzO G. YATES (Santa Barbara, Cal.) has distributed his list, 
with notes, of the ferns of Ceylon. The catalogue contains extrac 
manuscript notes of Dr. Thwaites, and the published works of Hooker, 
Baker, an all. 
Tue Bulletin of the Washburn College (Topeka, Kan.) laboratory of 
Natural History is an excellent publication, devoted to the natural history 
of the state. Its various numbers contain much information concerning 
the flora of Kansas, especially the cryptogamic flora. 
Duptey, of Cornell University, will start in a few 
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months for a year’s study and travel in Europe. Cornell has the admir- 
able regulation that a professor may take one year in seven, with hé 
salary, for going abroad. Professor Dudley has taught in the University 
ten years, and well merits this opportunity for relaxation. 
HE Pharmaceutical Era is a monthly periodical, begun with the year, 
and among other departments has one devoted to botany. under the 
ler. 
WE REGRET to announce the death of Dr. Eichler, of the University 
of aac and Director of the Botanic Garden, where he succee ed 
von Martius, his researches among Conifer and other orders, and his 
Bliithendiagramme, he is one of the most widely known of our botanists. 
HorTICULTURAL NOMENCLATURE is the subject of an article by Prof. 
Bailey, Jr., in Agricultural Science for March, in which he advises 
the use of English for the part of the name referring to the cultural con- 
dition, or, if Latin must be used, to separate the parts of the name enot- 
ing the cultural and natural condition of the plant by a comma, or the 
abbreviation “hort.,” but not by “ var.” 
_ Part III. (Oct.—Dec., 1886) of the Proc. Philad. Acad. contains several 
pene of botanical interest, as follows: History and biology of pear- 
lusi ), . Art i i 
of the Academy, J. W. Eckfeldt; On the interdependence of plants, and 
the bark of Saraca Indica, Miss H. C. . ; 
Ir was a happy and fruitful thought which led B. A. Elliott & Co, Nes 
deal by issuing the handsome work on “A few flowers worthy f general 
culture.’ It is a small quarto, profusely illustrated with artistic engrav- 
Ings, and with an interesting text quite free of 8 avor, advocating 
give an account of Ce nse its North American varieties, 
acecmpanied by three plates, one of them colored. Some six varieties are 
described, two of which are new, and one of these is C. oblongifolium of 
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the Manual. A full synonymy and bibliography are given. In the same 
number Mr. Thomas Morong describes a new Eryngium from Louisiana. 
; March 11, Mr. B. E. Fernow enters his protest against 
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nae thing, and that New England is not all of the United States. 
est conditions and in other regions of our great domain ™r., 
claims that it remains to be seen whether the cultivation of foreign trees 
Will be profitable, 
