1894. ] Notes and News. 83 
In THE Linnean Society’s Journal (30: 51), the first paper by Mr. J. 
C. Willis, under the title, “Contributions to the Natural History of the 
Flower” appears. It discusses the fertilization of C/ayfonia (two spe- 
cies), Pracelia (five species), and AM/onarda (three species), and is illus- 
trated by one plate. It seems that the writer is presently to visit the 
western United States, where some of the species of the paper and 
others can be studied in their native haunts. 
, 1895. 
German omat letters), English or Italian, and the society will pub- 
lish the accepted one in its quarto memoirs if agreeable to the author. 
fowa AcricuLturaL CoLLEGE has recently purchased the Parry 
Herbarium and Library for the sum of $5,000, which it hopes to make 
of service to the working botanists of this country. This collection 
ON THE EIGHTH of December, 1893, Professor Dr. Jacob George 
Agardh celebrated in Lund, Sweden, his eightieth birthday. On this 
occasion Prof. Dr. J. B. De Toni, on behalf of a large number of 
phycologists, presented to the distinguished Swedish algologist, an ar- 
Ustically gotten up address with the signatures of all those taking ee 
frein. The simple text of the address runs: “Clarissimo phycologo 
uD G. Agardh—ineunte aetatis suae anno octuagesimo—(8. Dec. 
CCCXIII—MDCCCXCII1)—gratulantes offerunt aestimatores.” 
—Bot. Centralb. 57: 96. 1894. 
eb ri original drawings and photographs from nature, with ac- 
degche of the characters of the defects and the insects causing them; 
~ sr thegag msi eae methods of preventing the occurrence of cer- 
»t er with other matter intended to be of interest to the 
' It will be sent free to those requesting it. 
Smale Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (Dec.) Mr. John K. 
the Appalach account of the altitudinal distribution of the oe of 
Waphical dire et in ind of work in 
&eographical q system, representing a kin 1 
Olini Air gts 
oe and Louisianian. In the same number Dr. Thomas Morong 
fresting results of his studies among monocotyledons. 
