1893.] Notes and News. 281 
A ust of the Hymenomycetez of Orleans county, N. Y., has been 
blished by Dr. Charles E. Fairman, in the Proceedings of the 
ochester Academy of Science, 11. 154-167. The lists contain 126 
species. 
Tue Micnican Agricultural College in its exhitbit in the Depart- 
ment of Liberal Arts at the Columbian Exposition’ is displaying the 
photographs of about 150 American botanists, together with a small 
number of foreign botanists. 
IntHE Bulletin de [ Herbier Boissier 1. 184-190, R. Chodat and O. 
alinesco have published an article dealing with the polymorphism 
of the alga, Scenedesmus acutus Mey., accompanied by a plate illustrat- 
ing this striking example of polymorphism.—Bay 
en Grevillea for June Dr. C. B. Plowright completes the life history 
tee Uredinez, by showing that Puccinia Festuce produces xcidio- 
‘pores on Lonicera periclymenum, Puccinia Agrostidis on Aquilegia 
"ag Uromyces lineolatus (found on Scirpus maritima) on Glaux 
an ni BERT DouGas, ina recent paper on coniferous forests read 
Seoth a Nurserymen’s Convention at Chicago, stated that “on the 
evergree versary of the discovery of this continent there will be choice 
they Will'be c America, but like the buffalo, the elk and the antelope, 
confined to public parks and private grounds.” 
Baro) ? 
eather’ vn MUELLER proposes to prepare a volume completing 
A BIOGRAPHY ‘ 
com + ,-AL SKETCH of Alphonse De Candolle, together with a 
pete bibl hy of his wttings is published in Budletin de 
for April, having been prepared by H. Christ. The 
y Shows 229 titles, and it must be remem 
that some f 
tees of ohh titles represent large volumes, and in a few cases 4 
De fl : ious! 
Sherrod CatMor has given! a continuation of his yo previously 
to here : ‘ 
decrease j » and his results are the following: (1) pentosanes 
fems and the seeds during the germination, and appear again In the 
"Reprint 
ffom the American Chemical Journal, xv. 276-285. 
