NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE APPENDIX of Bulletin de ? Herbier Boissier (Jan.) consists of a 
systematic conspectus of New Zealand Lichens, by Dr. J. Miiller. 
M. A. DE Jaczewsk1, in Bull. 2 Herb. Boiss. (Feb.), reports the dis- 
covery of Puccinia Peckiana Howe in Switzerland, on Rubus saxatilis, 
“HOSE INTERESTED in the finer structure of the Desmidez as ap- 
plied to classification will find an important contribution to this sub- 
ecton the pores of Closterium by Dr. J. Liitkemiiller in the CEsterr. 
tanische Zeitschrift 4.4,: II, 49. 1894. 
IN THE February number of Lrythea, Messrs. Ellis and Everhart 
describe twenty-nine new species of West American fungi; Mr. David- 
on concludes his field-notes upon Calochortus; and Mr. Bioletti 
gives some interesting experiences in herbarium making. 
 NaWASCHIN has not only fully established the fact that the so-called 
microspores” of Sphagnum described by Schimper are the spores of 
a fungus, Zetia Sphagni Nawas., but has worked out the life history 
ofthe fungus. See Bull. de 7 Acad. Imp. des Sci. St. Petersb. 13:394. 
Mr. A. P. Morcan has continued his publication of the myxomy- 
Cetes of the Miami Valley (Ohio) in pos “in. Soc. Nat. Hist. 16: 
W species. 
LETON, for several years assistant in the botanical 
tl : icultural College at Manhattan, Kansas, has ie 
ology. t W. appointed an assistant in the Division of Vegetable Pat 
Work th ashington, D. C. r. Carleton will have for his specia 
; € rusts of cereals and other plants. 
. frernal of Botany (Feb.) contains an account, with plate, of 
(one of the }j t of the stem and leaves of Physiotium giganteum 
Reeves << liverworts with auricles or water-holding sacs), by ape 
scribed Which the development and structure of the auricle are de- 
* and the stem found to grow by a two-sided apical cell. 
The PLANT 
and their e 
