152 The Botanical Gazette. [April 
Tue AMERICAN literature of compass plants is cited and commented 
upon in the January number of the Dew/sche botanische Monatsschr} 
by J. Christian Bay of the Missouri Botanic Garden.  Seventeti 
articles are mentioned, 
Mr. F. L. SarGENT advocates in The Household the claims of the 
Columbine to be the national flower. nds in it the Phrygat 
liberty cap, the five-pointed star, the cornucopia, the thirteen origind 
states, and the red-white-and-blue! 
A yew Form of plant press is figured and described in one 
Mitroscopical Bulletin for February. It is made of wood, held ae 
with straps, and has elastic bands to keep the unused papers in p : 
It weighs but 22 ounces without papers, and will doubtless prove 
popular press for field work. wa 
Dr. Karu PRANTL, professor of botany and director of the 
arden of the University of Breslau, died in that city on the af : 
ebruary. Dr. Prantl is also well known as an author of many “Engle } 
works; as the editor of Hedwigia; and as the joint editor, with 
of Die natiirlichen Phlanzenfamilien. i | 
In Proc. Philad. Acad. for 1892 (pp. 357-355) 1s the beginning” 
another botanical series by Professor E. L. Greene, under be be 
“Eclogae Botanicae.” Under the name of Carduus a pee | 
western thistles are described, and the old ones transferre i ia 
new lupines are also described, one from Colorado, the 0 
from California. a oat | 
_ Nou. DEscrises! two lecture experiments, one showing oa i 
apepence of the coloring matter of Florider;, ane ae 
Sai . : ] olus ¢ a 
ellotropic experiment with the sporangia 4 be dification ie ti 
instrument. Both of the experiments are suited to catch the #74 
ds fai 
i : ir 10 
THE QUESTION of the root-tubercles of Leguminosae pee a | 
become still more complicated.  B. Frank and Hh. 
duced plants of the northwest, made by Prof. H. L- 
tural Science, vir, 58) indicates that such tubercles 
all native species of the order, as well as upon introd : 
But the latter were often without tubercles when growing 
soil, especially when not more than one season old. 
ae nd int 
OBSERVATIONS On root tubercles upon both indole : 
: bh ahr 
of Claytonia, Montia, and Calandrinia. A new genus, a 
proposed, “named in allusion to the edible fleshy Toot: 
Flora Lxxvir, Pp. 27-37. 
*Vorlesungen, 1887, Pp. 737. 
