426 The Botanical Gazette. [December, 
-5. The date should be pushed to the very last of August or the first 
week in September in order to accommodate European botanists 
whose university duties would prevent attendance earlier. 
A free excursion of reasonable length (say as far as Lake Super- 
ior) ought to be arranged for; to this, arrangements should be added 
whereby foreign delegates could secure special rates to our great at- 
tractions in the far west should they care to make such extended ex- 
cursions.—Luciten M. UNpERWOOD, Greencastle, Ind. 
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NEWS AND NOTES. 
. W. H. Norris describes in the American Naturalist for August 
the development of the ovule of Grindelia squarrosa. 
D. T. MacDoveat is arranging a collecting trip to Mexico. He 
Mr. D. 
will start early in January. ose desiring plants from this region — 
can address him regarding the matter at LaFayette, Ind. 
— NEW EDITION of Koch’s “Synopsis Flore Germaniz” is to be pub- 
lished under the editorship of Prof. P. Ascherson. The Prussian 
Academy of Sciences has voted him 2,000 marks to carry onthe work. 
THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT in the Bohemian University at Prague 
has been strengthened by the appointment of Dr. A. Hansgirg, until 
now lecturer in the same institution, and Dr. R. von Wettstein, of 
Vienna, to professorships. 
CovILLE gives an interesting account of the Panamint In- 
Mr. F.V. Co 
dians of California (Am. Anthrop. v. 351), in which there is much of | 
IN THE Last number of Hedwigia (heft 4, 1892) Dr. C. Warnstorf 
describes five new species of Sphagnum: S. Labradorense of the ACUT- 
IFOLia, from Labrador; S. dasyphyd/um of the Cusprpata from Con- 
necticut; S. Or/andense from Florida; S. Mohrianum and S. Mobilense 
from Alabama, the three latter of the SuBSECUNDA. 
In THE November Gazette, (p. 341) we inadvertently omitted men- 
tion of the fact that the Department of Agriculture was the body that — 
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