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306 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. { December, 
THE NEW fossil — near paneaee| described by Co 
Laubach as between angiosper ymmnosperms, accord wee oy at 
in vegetative Be cutaive, but Doaites Priced gymnospermous fruits. 
E OCTOBER number of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical a 
contains a monograph of the genus Lycoperdon by G. Massee, F. bi 
Mr. M. recognizes 129 species, of which 49 are found in Europ 
oe United States. Doubtless, the revision of the puff- “balls of the United 
s, which we may expect at an early day from the pen of Dr. William 
Tieless, will modify this estimate materially. 
A course of five lectures on the dissemination of plants by Dr. Will- 
iam Trelease, Director of the Shaw School of Botany, has been sage 
‘The course began on November eo and is to be coutiatea Friday 
evenings. Dr. Trelease has colle ted numerous illustrations “for this 
series, both from the works of aihava and his own pte and the synop- 
sis of the lectures promises a most interesting course. 
. R. Orcurt, of San Diego, Cal., bear) be secure young, acti ive 
merica. It is not a financial venture, and little more than Ged ot need 
be eee bat das credit will be given collectors for their 
BINGTON, in a review of Professor Areschoug’s paper on the 
genus Rubus, in Journal of aed remarks that “it is far too thorougy 
pervaded by the theory of evolution to be quite TF to. those 
continue to look upon that as a yer rather than a fact.” (Italics in ‘the 
enetnel} The student of Euro opean Rubi who is not tainted with evolu- 
tion has a faith in the fixi ty’ of species that very few things could shake. 
_ Dr. Ropert Caspary, director of the Botanical Garden, Kénigsburg, 
died September 18, from the effects of a fall. He was born at Kénigs- 
e 
onciin a - ots of fullness and accuracy. . He first t pointed 
mos 
and growth of plants, and the discovery ma ohdenst be expect 
lead to valuable additions to the verbo enowletice of te, changes 
within the living p 
ANCHACER: ‘te lately aon full treatment . the hands of 
THE 
two investigators M. Maurice Hove the ss 
: r. 
just publiehed? a book of nearly 400 : the “ Entwickelungsge- 
te der Orobanch . ig jhrer Bezie- 
hungen dos Genes me pean mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung 
Lt ee 
mptes Rendus, ev, 470-473 and 530-533. 
Sept., 1887. 
pay elberg, 1887, Winter's Universitats hee andined 
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