NEWS. 
Dr. WILLIAM TRELEASE is now in Europe. He will return about August 
first. 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY at its recent commencement conferred upon 
Professor W. G. Farlow the degree LL.D., an honor most worthily bestowed. 
THE Last IssuEs of Lloyd’s Photogravures of American Fungi (nos. 9 and 
10) illustrate Polyporus Berkeleyi, and maintain the high character of the 
previous issues. 
Proressor D. T. MACDOUGAL has an untechnical article on the colors 
_of plants, especially the non-green colors, in the May number of the Popular 
Science Monthly. 
PROFEssoR Tuos. A. WILLIAMS, professor of botany in the Agricultural 
College of South Dakota, has been appointed an assistant in the Division of 
Agrostology in the Department of Agriculture. 
R. J. W. HARSHBERGER, in pursuing his ethno-botanical studies, has 
reached the conclusion that the pumpkin is indigenous in America, a view 
which he elaborates to some extent in Science (June tgth). 
Mr. A. A. HELLER has been appointed instructor in botany and curator 
of the herbarium in the University of Minnesota vice E. P. Sheldon, who 
resigns to find a more congenial field in the real-estate business. 
MR. JAMES BritTEN has published an account (Jour. Bot., June) of 
Arruda’s Brazilian plants, the occasion of it being the doubtful or inaccurate 
Citation of them in what he is pleased to call ‘‘ Jackson’s Index.” 
_ A NEW CASE of apparent symbiosis, between Tetraplodon and Peziza, 0 
which the rhizoids of the moss were associated with the fungus hyphz, has 
been found by Professor F. E. Weiss. (Rep. Brit. Ass. 1895: 855): 
IN THE Bull. Torr, Bot. Club (May), W. W. Rowlee and K. M. Wiegand 
describe some very interesting hybrids of Sa/ix candida, found near Ithaca, 
N.Y.; and S. M. Tracy and F. S. Earle describe numerous new fungi from 
Mississispi. 
A LIST OF forty-seven freshwater alga new to Great Britain is given by 
W. and G. S. West in Jour. Roy. Mic. Soc., April, 1896. Fourteen new 
Species are described with two new genera, Two plates of very crowded illus- 
trations accompany the list. —S. 
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