NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. G. LacERuEIM of the Botanical Museum of Troms, Norway, 
has been made professor of botany, and director of the Botanical In- 
stitute of the University of Stockholm, Sweden. 
Mr. GEORGE Hatey writes us that he has discovered Lycopodium al- 
pinum sabinacfolium at Chatham, N. H., alt. 3,500%, and inquires 
whether any other station has been reported for it in the United States. 
Mr. Gro, E. Davenport asks us to say that the story’ of Prof. D.C. 
Eaton having been led to interest himself in ferns through the young 
lady who afterward became his wife is untrue, as he learns from Mrs. 
Eaton herself. 
Prof. GEORGE Lawson of Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S., died 
Nov. roth. He published many papers upon the flora of the maritime 
provinces, partly printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of 
88. 
Canada, of which he was president in 18 
T A RECENT meeting of the Linnean Society (Nov. 7th) Mr. C. T. 
Druery exhibited a specimen of Scolopendrium bearing antheridia 
and archegonia upon the fronds, said to “constitute a more advanced 
phase of apospory than any previously noted.” 
A WISCONSIN correspondent of Garden and Forest (Nov. 27th) gives 
some details as to the supposed poisoning of horses by Solidago. The 
case is not proved against Solidago, but the genus is under suspicion. 
As to the species suspected there is no intimation. 
Professor E. L. GREENE has determined the dates of issue of Nut- 
tall’s Composite, a matter of considerable importance in matters of 
priority. He publishes his results in Zry¢hea (Dec.) as follows: pages 
283 to 356 were published in 1840; pages 357 to 455, in 1841. 
Sw. and A. acul, Moritzianum. 
THE SPOT DISEASE of orchids, which disfigures the leaves, has been 
studied by George Massee (dan. Bot. 9: 421), and found to be due 
to small drops of water on the leaves at the time when the plants are 
chilled. The histological appearances resemble those caused by the 
so-called Plasmodiophora of the grape. 
Mr. A. A. HELLER has just returned from a nine months collecting 
tour in the Sandwich Islands. Nearly the entire period was spent 02 
the islands of Kauai and Oahu. His collection contains thirty thou- 
ee — eat. *2ss collection contains thirty (i 
— his sketch of the life of Prof. D.C. Eaton in this journal. 20: 36 
1895. 
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