1887. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 145 
THE FOLLOWING corrections should be made on page 101 of this vol- 
ume: line 2, for “Tamisconato ” read “ Temisconata ”; line 4, for “ form” 
read “from”; line 8 from bottom, place a semicolon after “probable ” 
and dele the comma after “likely.” 
DOZEN years ago Vogel and Reischauer observed yellow crystals 
covering the outer coatings of walnuts, a substance found also in the ex- 
pressed juice, and called by them nucine or juglon. And now Bernthsen 
er have just built it up artificially—another instance of the 
synthesis of a natural product. 
Pror. W. W. BatrLey writes that a lady pupil had brought him a spray 
of an apple-tree with peculiarly monstrous . The petals were 
aborted and green, and there were no stamens. The carpels, with style 
and stigma, were fairly well developed. The tree is reported to bear 
fruit from these curious 
high school at Helena, Montana, and is to repeated during June be- 
fore the College of Montana at Deer Lodge. This is the first instruction 
of the kind given in the territory. 
T THE celebration of the seventieth birthday (March 30) of Pro- 
fessor C. von Naegeli,a present was made him ofa basket filled with seventy 
different fruits, ornamented with seventy kinds of : flowers, and sur- 
rounded by a garland composed of seventy plants, which belonged to as 
many different genera and species. 
the 
main root, but actually absorb the cell-contents, and finally the cell-walls 
of these overlying tissues. We should expect some such action to ac- 
iN THE American Garden for May, Prof. L. H. Bailey, Jr., has defined 
for horticulturists six terms which are often confounded in their litera- 
ture. The terms are acclimation, acclimatization, naturalization, domes- 
of apparent buds on their edges. M. Mangin investigated the structure 
of these buds and found that each ssed the structure of a perfect. 
dj antipodal cells! 
