298 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ December, 
1844, and the south building in 1854, and spent i a stand forty- 
seven feet apart. It was in this space the excavation was made. T 
s have been lyin pris arson in all seobatility anes 1844, as students 
do not generally caine such plants to grow within forty-seven feet of the 
college. D. A. OW 
Franklin, Ind. 
oo of seeds in pia 
er ord 
nandez, as oh as ie which I suppose might be translated as the 
“ creaking In view of this Mexican ith . Linnzus seems to have 
given it the figs of Hara crepitans. De Can ie (Prodromus 18, p. 1229) 
a nit: *Coc valde crepita a dissil kis seminaque deji- 
it 
MAS MEEHAN. 
Germantown, Penn 
Rid matic OS correction. 
n the Sh “the old and new botany,” e October GAZETTE, — 
an error occurs, namely, the apa of the wend puri before botany 
in the sevens yt feces the As it stands, it reads that the general 
subject, a is falling into Palace, which I am sure is not fete But 
it is quite clear to me that sy stematic botany is considered ai 
tached from the ting processes going on in plants, and, therefore ling 
into disfavor. E. L. GREG 
Bryn Mawr College. 
CURRENT LITERATURE. 
Hepatice Americane ; prepared by i M. Underwood and 0. F. Cook. 
Decades I and IL. Syracuse, N. Y. 1887. 
Under the above title Dr. Underwood, of Syracuse University ,and 
ment of students undertaking the collection of Hepatice. Asn 
to the set has been issued, we are authorized to say that the objec 
publishers has been 
1. To issue this Seelimiiary set more for the assistance of begin 
than as a matter of special interest to those who ray long studiet 
Hepatic. Later numbers may have a wider inter es : 
2. By issuing eS, numbers to bring the one within the reach of 
the most moderate me. 
3. To issue seein bitte (though common) species? The 1 
1 The se en M 
ods rood Sx sree § Te a will be sent postpaid for $1.25. Address Dr. Luci 
*The y nn mbers a are as ol low a 
: 8: Riccia natans, Marchantia polymorphs ont & = 
A ® conics, 0s levis, Blasin pusilla, Stectsin Lyellii, Frallania vara : 
ae is serpyilifolia, — st Rarioene Madothee: a, Radula cofaplanatay nant 
z7ania trilobata, Trichocoles méomentelia, edoua reptans, Ka ntia t wre morose 
pania 
Plagiochila Enon ns, Cephalozia curvifolia, Jungermania Schraderi, oe 
no pr 
t of the 
ners 
ah oi 
