144 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ June, 
subscription price for each fascicle (M. 1.50=85c) makes this one of the 
cheapest, as it promises to be one of the best, botanical works ever pub- 
lished. It strikes us as unfortunate, however, that the fascicles should be 
separately paged. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr, STERNBERG has gone to Rio de Janeiro to investigate yellow fever. 
YANTHES TRIFOLIATA turns up in Rhode Island this year with 
trimerous ee tetramerous flowers in one raceme 
THE RLY increase of cork is said by Gerber to vary from one row 
of cells i in Salix to one hundred rows in Quercus suber. 
KE’s Science Gossip for May has a very interesting descrip- 
tion abe serene forests by rr editor, Dr. J. E. Taylor 
w and interesting species are being discovered in the Philip- 
ad mare by Dr. Sebastian Vidal, Director of the Botanic Garden at 
THE ‘catalogue of Rhode Island plants, by Mr. James L. Bennett, is to 
i published by the Providence Franklin Society, and is understood to 
in press. 
ee THEOBALD hi of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washing- 
n, D. C., has just closed a course of six lectures on bacteria before. 
Comnell Dela. 
THE aos: umber o contains “Staining and mount ting 
lant se y - ey ee “The movement of diatoms,” by 
omelon Oat rdon 
be EMICAL susie of bacteria is the title of a long and interest: 
ing ivtitte ve Dr. ha rles E, Fairman, of Lyndonville, N. Y., P rinted 9 
the Medical Re, gister (Phila.) of April 27. 
Dr. Manty MILEs has an article in Agricultural Science for May 
a microbes ai nitrification, based u upon catered and experiments 
hich he h n prosecuting for some time. 
Pror. rascha in the American Naturalist for April, has done 4 capital 
thing for botanical students in publishing > = of the best and ae 
— manuals in the various groups o . f eign 
HE Linnean Society has recent] elsctid the ert oF 
Lactachy Dr. George A A. Schweinfurth, Cairo, Egypt; Count tt, So 
‘aubach, University of Gottingen; Dr. Melchior Treub, allan 
te Pecan od oes ex found in Scotland, are enumerated by 
pes n the  Seottish Naturalist for April. seg list ge 
i yuhium, 3 3 Oyen a 1 Phyto topht et ra,and 24 Peronospora, be wa 
‘see the United States’ list, published by Dr. Farlow in this ist ourne, 
an 
Filicum.” I¢ will include ui 
setacese, Lyco oan  Solagin® * 
Sel ee in which thes are eleven po and about seven = 
