116 The Botanical Gazette. [March 
to secure fine specimens rather than a large number of species. Its ) 
hoped that an interest may be felt in this region which has already fur 
nished many rare and a few new species. 
IN A PAPER on the influence of parasitic fungi on their host plants 
r. J. H. Wakker divides such fungi in accordance with the mode it 
which they influence the nutrition and growth of the hosts into foat 
groups: &/einophytes, of which the only effect is chemical ; hypertr baer 
which produce hypertrophy of the parts attacked; ssotrophytes, 
but slight chemical and direct effect ; and atrophytes, which produc 
atrophy of important organs, commonly of the flower parts. Hisit 
vestigations concern themselves chiefly with the second group. 
With THE beginning of this year the Botanische Zeitung cn 
upon its second half-century of existence. Advantage has 
of matter. It is now appearing in two sections, the first Ss" 5 
fortnightly, with single tind ee more heavily leaded, aon 
exclusively to the publication of complete original articles; the = 
retaining the original form, weekly, and devoted to reviews of ¢ 
literature. 
tion seems to have been given to trees, and his report upon melee 
trees of Northern California and Oregon is the most or ic 
y's Newberrya (an Ericaceous genus of pt rests © 
of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and the coniferous 10 
Northern California, commemorates his services. ol ; 
Ina PER touching on some points in the anatomy and ae re 
of the Fucoidex? Barthold Hansteen describes the anatomy «| 
Prin Nore 
2Prj et Jahrbiicher £. wiss. Bot, xxrv. 499. 
8 Jahrbiicher £. wiss. Bot. xxiv. 317. 
