1892.] Notes and News. 267 
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION of the pollen of Pinus sylvestris has 
been investigated by K. Kresling (Archzv. Pharm.), and is found to be 
wonderfully complex. Some thirty or forty complex compounds are 
listed, and their interpretation is at present out of questi 
_THE APPROPRIATION for special botanical work in the Botanical Di- 
vision of the Department of Agriculture has been reduced from $40,- 
100 t ’ is is unfortunate in view of the fact that the divi- 
sion had begun a systematic exploration of our least known regions, 
and the results of the next few years promised to be very great. 
Two important contributions to our knowledge of buds have re- 
ntly appeared; one, by Dr. J. Griiss, in Pringsheim’s Jahrbicher fiir 
wissenschaftliche Botanik Xxi11. pp. 637-703; the other by W.. Russell 
e Annales des Sciences Naturelles (botanique) VII. xv. pp. 95202: 
hiefly the anatomy, development, functions and 
NOMENC 
dlator botanicus with the addition of bibliographical references, was un- 
dertaken in 1864 by M. le général Paris, at the suggestion of his friend, 
Dr. W. P. Schi For various reasons the work was delayed. 
how proposes to take up this work again, and appeals to bryologists to 
Drs. ASCHERSON, Engler, Schumann and Urban, of Berlin, seeing the 
necessity of some modification of the laws of botanical nomencla- 
ture formulated in 1867, in order to prevent the confusion likely to 
Kuntze’s Revisio generum, have proposed the following 
Nope Bad sie 5 ll as the 
_ tI. Nomina nuda and seminuda are to be rejected. Pictures alone, 
ce lagnoses, do not claim any priority of a genus: : 
ties Similar names are to be caered, if they differ by Sang 
€ in the last syllable; if they only differ in the mode of spelling 
€ oe ee must fall lly known gen 
- The names of the following larger or universally Know? 5.” 
theyn’ £0, be conserved, though, never the strictest rules of priority, 
used must be rejected; in many of them the change rei sons maa aa 
is by no means sufficiently proved.” 
