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definite relation to the tannin; but whether part of the tannin is con- 
verted into chromogen or whether the latter is formed new in the pres- 
ence of the tannin is undetermined 
The plants investigated were Corydalis cava, C. pumila, C. Halleri, 
©. ochroleuca, C. lutea, Diclytra spectabilis, D. formosa, Adlumia cirrhosa; 
Fumaria officinalis, F. muralis, Parnassia palustris and Parietaria diffusa. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Proressor C. E. Bessey made a collecting trip to the Bad Lands and 
Black Hills of Dakota during vacation. 
Prores L. M. UnpErwoop, of Syracuse University, is making a 
two months’ collecting trip through the Southern States 
THE FIFTH VOLUME of Saccardo’s Sylloge Fungorum, devoted to es 
Agaricinew, has been issued. It is a thick octavo of 1146 pages, price 7 
Dr. A. DE Bary has declined the call to Leipsic as Dr. Schenk’s au, 
cessor, and the professorship has been tendered to Dr. W. Pfeffer, © 
Tibingen. 
_ Dr. Grorc Winter, editor of Hedwigia, and known to many Amer- 
ican botanists by correspondence, died at Connewitz, near Leipzig, Ger- 
many, August 16, after a long and severe illness. 
Iy Dr. Farlow’s address, printed in the August GAZETTE, an error 
occurs on page 180, which should be corrected. In the 13th line 
the bottom the “not” should be stricken out, which materially alters the 
_ CHarLIs 8. PLump, of the New York Agricultural Experiment ess 
tion, and editor of Agricultural Science, has accepted the professorship & 
Agriculture, Botany and Entomology in the University of Tennessee, §! 
uated at Knoxville. 
_ THE FIRST FascIDE of volume 5 of the bulletin of the Sociedade Bro- 
eriana, bearing date of 1887, is chiefly devoted to a systematic descrip” 
tion of the native orchids of Portugal by José d’A. Guimaraes. Thirty 
nine species and nine genera are included 
TWELVE NEW sPEcres of North American mosses have recently been 
described by Dr. Karl Miiller (Halle) in Flora, No. 14, pp. 219-225. They 
pipe as = . ep ergs California, Tennessee ne > ty Pin 
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gique, 1887, p. 55, wbrador is described by Philibert in 
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trated by accurate wood-cuts. Mothers and nurses are thereby warned 
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