166 The Botanical Gazette. [May, 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
W. W. ee returned to Chicago from his collecting trip in 
i anenice sae 
A PH of the Myxoga stres covering 367-octavo pages and 
illustrated ad — colored plates has recently been published by 
MARINE ater LABORATORY at Wood’s Holl opens its 
ath season June he a uieert instruction will he in charge 0 
r. W. A. Se tchell of Yale Univer 
. ELFVING, of the University of igegae 16 and Dr. M. Mé- 
bius, of the University of Heidelberg, have each been romoie “from 
docent to a professorship in their respective institutio 
D . ARTHUR sails for coe June 4, for a two months’ trip, 
principally i in Germany. e goes largely c pechtaeee the possi 
and promote the interests of the Botanical Congres 
THE HERBARIUM of the University of knee is ‘gown so aes 
dly that the item published in the March number out of date 
That collection now contains upward of 60,000 phate “of which 25,- 
000 are spermaphytes 
MESCHINELLI AND S. SQUINABOL propose to publish, if 
sufficient encouragement pretmi | is offered, a work which is ready for 
press, on the Tertiary flora of Italy. 114 genera of cryptoaaee and 333 
of gee aa are known n from this formation in Ita 
R. WAL . Evans is now in Arizona, 1n the tek oy of i 
pecment of. Aaricnteare. lncte Ws desert plants for the Co! 8 
ian Exposition. It is the purpose of the De epartment to papier 
as completely - ee the deaceiie vegetation of our 
western arid re 
APPRE pacer: ae ch of Sereno Watson app in the E> so a 
ne qualified to write concernin Dr. vite, as their int 
Dr. Toe, TER has just described (Budd. Torr. Bot. = 
April) two new Eapatoriams, one from Tennessee, the other - 
Jersey; four ~ varieties of as many species of Soli dago; ate 
cies of Soli whose aie S. Roanensis, suggests its habitat a 
new Teaches from Flor a 
THE DISAPPEARANCE of — dium — prs flora, threatened poh 
botanist who curiously enough can sign himself “O. K.,” is emP i mh 
by Anna M. = ne in Bulletin of Torrey asics! Club (Apel, 
presents the synonymy of the gems Meibomia, as it occu 
United States mate British Ameri ft 2) 
_ THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLE in she list number of (ora (1892, short 
's on the photometric movements of plants by F. Oltmanns. 
articles are by J. Sachs, Boel notes, A. Doyel on the e ool 
logy and development of the starch Bra ins of Pellionia, and 
-on the Salve of marine alge i oe seme 
