— = 
ee mee ere ee 
lees it was blocked by great growths of 
Baking anid filled with the fungus, which had reve 
iid m the cask. The empty cask was 
lead the ceiling. This is the famous 
: cks, swinging and waving like gigantic cobwebs 
f “th . 
€ object of the foregoing chapters has been, 
: ain’t $0.” 
5 Mended ” 
a rica We recommend her to suppress t 
Fei. attention to botany for a series of years 
4 €s to popularize it. 
ist; it j 
7 ate sur is amazing that they should so frequently ge 
| tobe prised that the Messrs. Harper woul 
qa ar their imprint. 
Fe ee Pe at eee 
- 1893.) Open Letters. 471 
and the tangle of the Swede are made from alge.” “Zygnemas are 
i C0 . 
: _. aed tubes joined together by short ones, all marked 
utiful spirals or crosses, or other regular figures. They are 
€ co i 
. aie and are found in great numbers fifteen thousand feet 
yalayas, in the cold springs which rise from the glaciers.” 
us “< i inl 
Bs orienta, deep rel in An allied alga is the Pa- 
or . musty wails — Psi’, found on stale bread and meat, 
ih sonigieged one further quotation, since these are more for 
MR eient-mo rey readers than as a justification of our criticism. 
Be The stor = ere liquids—wines, ciders, vinegars, and the 
cellar to age s told of a man who placed his cask of wine in the 
_ Some time afterwards, when he attempted to open the 
fungus. The cellar 
led in the wine 
lifted on top of the fun- 
fungus found in the 
? 
Miss (or isi 
(or is it Mrs.?) Creevey declares, at the end of her book, that 
not a scientific treatise 
le and easy it is, and 
on bot 
any, but to show how comparatively simp 
_ What “3 
what a pleasure it is, to know something—a great 
ist, “It's 
This nai 
. F . 
ter oe recalls the apt rebuke of an American hu 
to kno so menny things than to kno so menny things that 
(and for the world) if she 
It wo 
uld have been better for the author 
“it is as a recreation, 4 
? 
his book and to give her 
before she again 
d confusion of ideas should 
It is 
not so remarkable that ignorance an 
t into type. We 
d allow such a publ 
Se mes 
OPEN LETTERS. 
The botanic annual. 
W. T. Swingle presents 2 
OW ; 
| he October issue of the GazETTE Mr. 
Umber 
of remarks on the idea of having an annual report on AIS 
le’s consideration 
~ &n botani 
: anical literature. The outcome of Mr. Swing 
35—Vol. XVILI—No. 12. 
ication. 
