118 BOTANICAL GBZETTE. [May, © 
caring not for structure if they are only “handsome!” Let the micro- 
scope be a tool for earnest study—not the plaything of an idle hour! 
The book is amply illustrated with useful, though small, drawings— 
not pictures—and contains many helpful artificial keys to genera and 
species, with references to standard works of more special character. It 
deserves a large sale. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
M. PHILipert describes anew fe aor B. Corbieri from northwestern 
887. , 
France in the Revue Bryologique No. 
Dr. ALBERT KELcoaa, the veteran Bk of the Pacific slope, died 
March 31st, at Alameda, California, at the age of seventy-four years 
AN AMATEUR botanical club has recently been formed at Washington 
rl a membership of about twenty-five. Miss Flora N. Vasey is secre- 
E Revue Bryologique No. 2, 1887, Dr. S. O. Lindberg describes 
ep aes species of Hepaticz from Portugal, Marsupella profunda, 
cae constans and A. multilo 
A young Italian mycologist, the Abbe Ben. Scortechini, an explorer 
of Ristatie ‘and further India, died a short time ago at Caleutta. A 
genus of fungi commemorates his services. 
MERICAN Association for the Advancement of Science will 
hy if 
meet in New York City, beginning August 10. It will pr pagers be ina ) 
estingly warm in the city at that date, but the sea beach is 
Dr. Diprik fags ple DIpRICHSEN, seventy-two ae a age, died 
on March 19. He was professor of botany in the University of Copen- 
botanica 
“Tae Poms ELL BOTANICAL Civ, of Chenango County, New Y ork, has 
ently been organized, with F. V. Coville as president. It is the direct 
ontgrowth of the enthusiasm in Bee study of the flora of Central New York, 
emia # ese Cornell Unive 
P. Moraan, in esis apie of his “Mycologic Flora of the | 
Miami. Walley, Ohio,” has just distributed a paper on Hydnel The seve® 
genera are represented as follows: Hyvdnum 30 species (cies new), Irpex 
a 
6, Radulum 3, Phlebia 8, Grandinia 1, Odontis 2, Knei 
E OF THE rarest and least kn nown mosses of Europe, Didymodon 
balpinus, has lately been collected in Switzerland, on the Rigi, at a0 
altitude of 1,400 meters, by MM. Van den Broeck and Dens. He 
the hes of known noid isn a sinali specimen without a capsule in 
Pr R PENHALLOW, “ok Montreal, has issued a 
oy eo vnc gree the Transactions of the Royal Society ot Os Canada, 
echanism of movement in Cucurbita, Vitis, and Robinia.” 
bila main and C. Pepo,” with some additional notes on the tendrils 
hagen vine — to 1885, and for ei ty years previous held important 
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