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NOTES AND NEWS. 
In Meehan’s Monthly (June) will be found a portrait of Dr. Wm. 
Baldwin. 
In Erythea (June) Mr. J. G. Lemmon describes and figures ‘a new 
Pinus of S. E. Arizona, named from that “ Apache-infested” region 
P. Apacheca. ; 
STEPHEN ELLiott is honored in Garden and Forest (May 23) by a 
biographical sketch, with portrait, and also by a full description and 
figure of Elliottia racemosa. 
PROFESSOR VON Sacus of Wiirzburg conti his physiolog 
in Flora. The last note forms an exceedingly interesting paper of 
28 pages, on mechanomorphoses and phylogeny (Flora —: 215-243. 
1894).—Bay. 
A TRANSLATION of Kerner’s admirable Pflanzenleben has been made 
by Professor Oliver and Misses Busk and Ewart and is already in 
course of publication in sixteen monthly parts by Messrs. Blackie & 
Son, London and Glasgow. 
Tue Journal of Botany for June is largely devoted to tropical 
African plants, Mr. A. Rendle describing some new Asclepiads 
(one a new genus), and in connection with Mr. James Britten describ- 
ing several new Convolvulacez. : 
_ MEssrs. Morris & WILSON of Minneapolis announce the publica- 
ton of a translation of Dr. Walter Oels’ little manual of experimental 
plant physiology by Mr. D. T. MacDougal of the University of Minne- 
Sota. We shall present a fuller notice of the book later. 
IN THE Kew Bulletin (May) is published a list of fifty-two plants col- 
lected by Dr. W. L. ripe F Aminacead naturalist, on the Aldabra 
Islands (north of Madagascar), and name . J. G. Baker. The 
collection contains ten new species, but not a single fern, grass, orchid, 
or Composite 
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of North America north of the Mexican boundary in Bud/. Torr. Bot. 
Herr Four of the Berichte d. deutschen botan.Gesellschaft — 
Johann Bachmann, on the influence of external factors upon the for-. 
mation of the sporangia of Thamnidium elegans Link; H. sboocinces Th: 
the position of the Spicnephy ate in the system; J. Christian wel 
1;, 2 4 new genus of the yeast-like fungi which does not cause alco- 
holic fermentation.—Bay. 
Tae Bulletin de ? Herbier Boissier, in recent numbers (April and 
May), published a series of botanical studies of the islands of the Le- 
