﻿1890.] 
  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  313 
  

  

  NOTES 
  AND 
  NEWS. 
  

  

  Messrs. 
  Ellis 
  and 
  Everhart 
  write 
  about 
  an 
  interesting 
  Coprinus, 
  in 
  

   the 
  Microscope 
  for 
  May, 
  which 
  forms 
  sclerotia. 
  It 
  was 
  found 
  by 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  

   W. 
  Anderson 
  in 
  Montana. 
  

  

  One 
  hundred 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Xorth 
  American 
  fungi 
  are 
  described 
  by 
  

   Messrs. 
  Ellis 
  and 
  Everhart 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Philadelphia 
  

   Academy 
  of 
  Sciences 
  for 
  July. 
  They 
  are 
  mostly 
  pyrenomycetous 
  forms^ 
  

  

  A 
  EEViEW 
  of 
  the 
  works 
  on 
  lichenography 
  appearing 
  in 
  18S9 
  is 
  given 
  

   by 
  M. 
  I'abbe 
  Hue, 
  and 
  a 
  similar 
  notice 
  of 
  papers 
  on 
  vegetable 
  anatomy 
  by 
  

   M. 
  Leclerc 
  du 
  Sablon 
  in 
  a 
  recent 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  Revue 
  general 
  de 
  Bot- 
  

   amque 
  (ii. 
  404, 
  412). 
  

  

  Henry 
  L. 
  Bolley, 
  assistant 
  botanist 
  in 
  the 
  Indiana 
  Experiment 
  

   otation 
  for 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  years, 
  has 
  gone 
  to 
  Fargo 
  to 
  assume 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  

   botanical 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  North 
  Dakota 
  University 
  and 
  Experiment 
  Station, 
  

   recently 
  organized. 
  

  

  Herbert 
  J. 
  Webber, 
  for 
  some 
  time 
  assistant 
  in 
  the 
  botanical 
  depart- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Nebraska, 
  and 
  author 
  of 
  the 
  Flora 
  of 
  Nebraska 
  

   recently 
  published, 
  has 
  been 
  appointed 
  assistant 
  in 
  the 
  Shaw 
  School 
  of 
  

   Botany 
  at 
  St. 
  Louis. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  C. 
  R. 
  Barnes 
  has 
  been 
  entrusted 
  with 
  the 
  revision 
  of 
  Dr. 
  

   yray 
  s 
  Field, 
  Forest 
  and 
  Garden 
  Botany. 
  The 
  work 
  will 
  be 
  extended 
  to 
  

   include 
  the 
  range 
  of 
  States 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  Tennessee 
  and 
  the 
  

   Higher 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  Southern 
  States. 
  It 
  is 
  expected 
  that 
  the 
  revision 
  

   will 
  be 
  completed 
  by 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  1891. 
  

  

  A 
  descriptive 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  Ustilagineae 
  of 
  Denmark 
  has 
  been 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  by 
  E. 
  Rostrup 
  i!i 
  the 
  Frstkrift 
  udgivet 
  af 
  den 
  bdaniske 
  Forenmg 
  m 
  

   Copenhagen, 
  1890 
  (pp. 
  117-168). 
  Twelve 
  genera 
  and 
  sixty 
  seven 
  species 
  

   ^^ 
  given, 
  with 
  four 
  genera 
  and 
  seven 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  closely-related 
  

  

  "otomyces 
  srronn 
  

  

  yces 
  group. 
  

  

  f«« 
  for 
  October. 
  It 
  treats 
  an 
  important 
  subject 
  in 
  a 
  comprehensive 
  and 
  

   ncisive 
  manner, 
  and 
  should 
  be 
  productive 
  of 
  its 
  better 
  understanding 
  by 
  

   lue 
  general 
  miWin 
  tr, 
  «7V.r>,v-. 
  u 
  ;» 
  orTriroaaorl 
  

  

  — 
  -.^wuuci, 
  aiiu 
  Huuulu 
  oe 
  prouucLive 
  

  

  general 
  public 
  to 
  whom 
  it 
  is 
  addressed. 
  

  

  Tn^-^^- 
  '^•^- 
  Rothrock 
  has 
  arranged 
  a 
  biological 
  expedition 
  to 
  the 
  West 
  

   Jiidies 
  and 
  Yucatan, 
  to 
  spend 
  the 
  months 
  of 
  November, 
  December 
  ana 
  

   January 
  in 
  those 
  countries. 
  The 
  party 
  is 
  provided 
  with 
  an 
  excellent 
  

   • 
  S 
  ",^^'^^"g 
  abundance 
  of 
  storage 
  room 
  for 
  each, 
  and 
  is 
  l^"^;*;^.'*,,;^ 
  

   ^^ht. 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Hitchcock 
  goes 
  with 
  the 
  company 
  in 
  the 
  interest 
  of 
  the 
  

   J^I'saoun 
  Botanical 
  Garden. 
  

  

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  In 
  m 
  article 
  on 
  the 
  tannin 
  of 
  Composit^e 
  (Rev. 
  g-^n. 
  de 
  Bot. 
  ii. 
  391) 
  

   ML 
  Lucien 
  Daniel 
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  that 
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  greatest 
  quantity 
  of 
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  them 
  in 
  the 
  order 
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  rich 
  

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  ^^^'^^ 
  substances 
  are 
  the 
  capitula, 
  the 
  stems, 
  and, 
  Iff 
  'y- 
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   ^oung 
  roots 
  are 
  less 
  rich 
  in 
  tannin 
  than 
  mature 
  ones, 
  but 
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  reverse 
  s 
  

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  of 
  stems. 
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  , 
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