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gular or cylindrical very succulent stems, their axillary buds originating deep 
down in the soft tissue and sometimes having a passage-way extending 
toward the surface. In two species of Rhipsalis (2. Jaradoxa and R. floc- 
cosa) there is no such passage-way, and the bud, in developing, breaks 
through the epidermis. In Rhépsa/is gtaucosa, a number of accessory abor- 
tive flowers were found. Cuscuza glomerata was mentioned as the only 
other plant in which, so far as the speaker knew, subepidermal flowers 
occur—-WILLIAM TRELEASE. 
THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences, located at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, will begin its tenth 
“son on Wednesday, July 5, under the direction of Dr. C. B. Davenport, 
of Harvard University, and regular class work will continue for six weeks. 
The laboratory will be open for work from July 3 until August 31. Special 
students may make arrangements for using the laboratory from the middle 
of June until the middle of September, or later, if desirous of doing so, The 
bins UNIVERSITY oF MINNESOTA is about to organize a new herbarium 
Cassified upon ecological lines. This will be supplementary to the large 
ag TC already displayed. The ordinary sheets and folio 
characters . but plants will be segregated upon their conan! 
new work PA oe! ets seneral divisions as blocked out in Schimper s 
or example igtiee raphie, a minute subclassification has been eee 
under ee... be eerophytes, succulents ; under succulents, leaf-succulents ; 
ents, desert cuents, various edaphic groups — rock-succulents, salt-succu- 
< “succulents, 
AMEricg ee ‘ 
: ", European, Asiatic, etc., according to the geographical classifica- 
per, Drude, and Grisebach, as may be found convenient. A 
t : ion applies to the other ecological groups. It is believed 
's Organizatio 
‘axonomic collec 
PrOve of great a tion and thoroughly adaptational in its classification will 
dvantage as an aid to instruction. 
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witiea REPORT of the director of the Field Columbian Museum 
large amount > that the department of botany has been enriched by a 
: Material. «The most important collection acquired during 
~ Complete herbarium of the late Mr. M. S. Bebb, including 
