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  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  I57 
  

  

  ^* 
  

  

  Dr. 
  G. 
  B. 
  De 
  Toni 
  has 
  retired 
  from 
  the 
  editorship 
  of 
  Notarisia, 
  which 
  

   will 
  be 
  issued 
  hereafter 
  by 
  Dr. 
  D. 
  L. 
  Morenos. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  May 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  Am. 
  Month. 
  Micro, 
  Jour, 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  a 
  

   paper 
  on 
  " 
  A 
  Microscopic 
  Study 
  of 
  the 
  Cotton 
  Plant." 
  

  

  A 
  PORTRAIT 
  and 
  biographical 
  sketch 
  of 
  Dr. 
  C. 
  C. 
  Parry, 
  by 
  C 
  E. 
  Or- 
  

  

  cutt, 
  are 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  We^t 
  American 
  Scientist 
  for 
  June. 
  

  

  Professor 
  L. 
  H. 
  Bailey 
  has 
  just 
  become 
  editor 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Oar- 
  

   den, 
  A 
  more 
  fitting 
  selection 
  could 
  not 
  have 
  been 
  made. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Sereno 
  Watsox 
  has 
  been 
  elected 
  a 
  foreign 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Lin- 
  

   nsean 
  Society, 
  As 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  foreign 
  members 
  is 
  small, 
  the 
  honor 
  is 
  

   correspondingly 
  great. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Oliver 
  has 
  resigned 
  his 
  position 
  as 
  curator 
  of 
  the 
  herba- 
  

   rium 
  at 
  Kew. 
  He 
  has 
  been 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  herbarium 
  for 
  about 
  

   1*^irty 
  yearsj 
  and 
  will 
  continue 
  to 
  reside 
  at 
  Kew. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Migula, 
  who 
  is 
  preparing 
  the 
  Characese 
  for 
  Rabenhorst's 
  " 
  Kryp- 
  

   togamen-Flora," 
  insists 
  upon 
  their 
  isolated 
  position 
  in 
  the 
  vegetable 
  

   kingdom, 
  proposing 
  the 
  name 
  Charophyta 
  for 
  the 
  group, 
  which 
  contains 
  

   about 
  150 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  whole 
  world. 
  

  

  Ix 
  Plttonia 
  (ii. 
  82-90), 
  Dr. 
  C. 
  F. 
  Millspaugh 
  makes 
  a 
  second 
  contribu- 
  

   tion 
  to 
  oar 
  knowledge 
  of 
  K 
  Am. 
  Euphorbiacese. 
  The 
  puzzling 
  E. 
  ser- 
  

   pyllifolia 
  and 
  its 
  forms 
  are 
  discussed, 
  and 
  presented 
  in 
  a 
  plate. 
  New 
  

   species 
  are 
  described 
  from 
  Idaho, 
  Arizona, 
  and 
  Texas. 
  

  

  In 
  Balansa's 
  catalogue 
  of 
  Chinese 
  grasses, 
  being 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  

   Journal 
  de 
  BiAanique, 
  the 
  current 
  and 
  last 
  installment 
  (May 
  1) 
  contams 
  de- 
  

   scriptions 
  of 
  two 
  new 
  genera, 
  Brousemichea 
  (Agrostidese) 
  and 
  Massia 
  

   (Avene9e),and 
  several 
  new 
  species. 
  The 
  complete 
  catalogue 
  contams 
  23o 
  

   numbers. 
  

  

  InZ(k, 
  for 
  May, 
  Dr. 
  Harkness 
  gives 
  another 
  hst 
  of 
  generic 
  names 
  

   common 
  to 
  Durand 
  and 
  Saccardo. 
  This 
  hst 
  contains 
  15 
  genera, 
  am: 
  is 
  

   m 
  addition 
  to 
  a 
  former 
  list 
  published 
  in 
  BulL 
  CaL 
  Acad, 
  1 
  176. 
  Only 
  those 
  

   names 
  are 
  included 
  which 
  are 
  accepted 
  in 
  these 
  great 
  works 
  on 
  Phanero- 
  

   gams 
  and 
  Fungi. 
  We 
  note 
  in 
  the 
  list 
  the 
  American 
  genera 
  Ciadothnx 
  

   and 
  Tipularia. 
  

  

  The 
  usual 
  summer 
  school 
  of 
  botany 
  of 
  Harvard 
  University 
  will 
  be 
  

   conducted 
  this 
  year 
  by 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  W. 
  Ganong, 
  instructor 
  in 
  botany 
  in 
  the 
  

   ?oHege, 
  assisted 
  by 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  J. 
  Pierce, 
  of 
  the 
  Lawrence 
  Scientific 
  bchool. 
  

   y- 
  A. 
  B. 
  Seymour, 
  assistant 
  in 
  the 
  crvptogamic 
  herbarium, 
  also 
  an- 
  

   nounces 
  a 
  private 
  class 
  in 
  cryptogamic 
  botany, 
  beginning 
  and 
  closing 
  at 
  

   tie 
  same 
  time. 
  The 
  session 
  this 
  year 
  is 
  from 
  July 
  2. 
  to 
  July 
  30. 
  

  

  The 
  naming 
  of 
  mosses 
  by 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  manual 
  of 
  Lesquereux 
  & 
  

   James 
  alone 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  to 
  be 
  most 
  difficult 
  by 
  amateurs 
  who 
  have 
  no 
  

   other 
  aid. 
  Professor 
  Charles 
  R. 
  Barnes 
  has 
  just 
  issued 
  a 
  72-page 
  

   pamphlet 
  containing 
  analytic 
  keys 
  to 
  the 
  genera 
  and 
  species 
  of 
  N. 
  Am. 
  

   Sf 
  '• 
  ^^^«e 
  keyi, 
  on 
  the 
  general 
  plan 
  of 
  those 
  in 
  Gray's 
  Manual, 
  will 
  

   enable 
  students 
  and 
  collectors 
  of 
  mosses, 
  with 
  comparatively 
  little 
  expe- 
  

   mpn^^'u,° 
  name 
  correctly 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  they 
  can 
  collect. 
  A 
  com- 
  

   fnendable 
  feature 
  of 
  this 
  pamphlet, 
  which 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  frequently 
  consulted, 
  

   tnul 
  -^ 
  ^^sewed, 
  not 
  stitched, 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  lie 
  open 
  flat. 
  Single 
  copies 
  can 
  

  

  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  author, 
  at 
  Madison, 
  Wis., 
  for 
  50 
  cents. 
  

  

  