154 The Botanical Gazette, 
rt? i 
iaceae, by M. Kronfeld, and the Celastraceae, by Th. Lésener; 
r G. Volkens. 
can genera of the groups above mentioned stand very much ast 
monographers have left them. : 
rhythmic curvatures in plants may be artificially induced by exposé | 
shoots to alternate and opposite stimuli of a geotropic or henot 
ure. When a plant had come to be ina thoroughly rhythmic state 
nat 
they found it possible to prophesy toa minnte at what time the reve? 
ake of gr 
Dr. Kart Geet calls attention in Annals of Botany, Vi. 355, a0 
also in /Yora, to the location of the banal’ 
rudimentary stem with several involucral leav Th 
comes very near to the theoretical idea of the simplest mo 6 the 
looks upon the proton s the primitive oophyte, an Conall came 
Pu. 
the classification of Basidiomycetes. He recognizes nine rill 1 
families in the group, as follows: Lycoperdaceae,Agaricaceae; : — 
Tremelleae, Tylostomeae, Ecchyneae, Auricularieae, Puccini 
Ustilageae. The first family contains five tribes, the secon ibe ; 
y a single tr "Tylor 
Lycoperdaceae contain Gastromycetes of authors, excepting Te 
tomeae and Ecchyneae, which are raised to family yi also 
Agaricaceae contain the Hymenomycetes of authors, 4m 
Dacryomycetes usually included under the Tremelleae. ae 
2 Oneond 
Mr. THoMas Moronc has s t a” 
the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (February). Am 
Listera from Hudson Bay Territory is de vas 
ca 
on; Goo : 
Nutt. by Achroanthes Raf. Ina note in the 6 
he corrects his change of Colopogon to Cathea and sy 
dorum is entitled to use. 
