76 The Botanical Gazette. [February, 
King, Professor of agricultural physics in the University and Physic 
ist of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station.t Fora const 
erable time Professor King has been studying the effect of varios) 
superficial causes upon the level of the water in the interstices of the 
_ THE LIsT OF mosses included in the catalogue of the flora of Wes | 
Virginia by Millspaugh (see this journal XYIII, 34) has been separatel) 
issued as Contribution No. 32, from the Herbarium of Columbia Co! 
lege. Two new species of Dicranodontium are described, with excellett . 
plates, D. Virginicum and D. Millspaughit. The latter is Campylopit 
Jlexuosus Sull.(non Brid.). Eighty-four species and varieties are enllr” 
erated. : . ) 
A. S. Hircucock, Professor of botany in the State Agricultural Col . 
lege of Kansas, has issued a useful descriptive list of the species ant 
key to the genera of the “Woody Plants of Manhattan in their Winter : 
Condition.”? The list contains sixty-three native and four commonly j 
cultivated species that have escaped. It was prepared originally 
the use of the author’s students. The nomenclature follows the Roc | 
ester agreement, and the sequence that of Gray’s Manual. : 
OPEN LETTERS. 
Polyporus carnivorous? 
Is . 
The article in the November Gazetrr entitled, “A probable a 
category of carnivorous Plants,” was read with much interest, altho a 
ie ; 
1. The flies frequently found on the under surface of 7 ieee 
applanatus do not seem to bethere from any special preference for ™ 
*Kine, F, H. ‘—Investigations relating to soil moisture. Extracted ee 
Ag. Exp. Sta., pp. 91-134. Also: Observali” 
in the level and rate of movement of 
s, U.S. DRE 
: , bulletin No. 5. Washington, 1 
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ed by the author, Manhattan, Kansas. 8vo. PP: . 
