198 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ August, 
regions should be employed to thoroughly explore their a oa 
specialists should be sent during the summer to study certain pro eo 
In short, a few thousand dollars from an overflowing treasury ee . 
made to yield an ample return in our better knowledge of one of the 
noblest and (in a public way) most neglected sciences. 
OPEN LETTERS. 
A Query. ; 
any of the readers of the Gaze ETTE say whether the hog a 
Mersilia grown in the United States germinate readily? Havi 
formed by Professor Pfeffer that it is difficult to germinate spo ae 
in Tmany, and that all accounts hitherto published have be . rate 
from spores im pated from Australia. It would be interesting 2 hare 
Meese si same difficulty is met in the United noe es, as vi we 
BELL. 
“Tibingen, July, 1887. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Iy THE Journal of B otany for June Mr. Arthur -Bennett ae on a oe) 
vision of. the Australian species of Potamogeton, describing on 
species 
Tae SECOND aoe of Strasburger’s Botanisches Practicum has ap- 
peared in Germ 
Dr. W. Zopr ou pees made Professor-extraordinary of Botany in 
the Unive of Halle 
G. BertHop as been called to the professorship of Botany in 
the tate of Gottingen. t de 
¥ more than a year has passed since the appearance 0 
. ee y 7a were second and revised edition has 
been issued by Engelm 
a 
Mr. Roger T Hessuer, of eotewilglint Ind., finds Gaura cones 
growing isig | the C,H. & I. R. r that place. His plant wa 
bushy an sala fifteen inches hi oh: 
n 
n Scientist for June has an interesting Ree 
THE West I ac- 
the “ Oaks of gow “Aah nd Somer | California ” by the editor. 
companied by a photograph oF live-oaks. 
r 
n Agricultural Selene has published a pape 
taceous plan a 
her eas AILEY, JR., of Michi igan pea cione eres 2 byt 
| imens from al parts of the country of Carex grisea (especially /? 
Naan west), C. triceps, C, arctata, and C. retrocurva. 
Dr. Byron D, HatsrEp 
on the germination of pes 
