182 The Botanical Gazette. [March, 
Phys. et Nat. 88: 497) that it is a case of “suspended animation.” 
It is hard to imagine such a thing as “potential life,” but easy to cor 
ceive of the necessary life exchanges being reduced to so low an ebb 
and flow as to be imperceptible. 
Tue EDITORSHIP of Queen’s Microscopical Bulletin will hereafter bk 
in the hands of Mr. Albert S. Baker. Mr. Edward Pennock, who lis 
been the able editor of the ABu//efin since its inception twelve yeas 
ago, has severed his connection with the firm, in order to establish & 
new depot for microscopical supplies. The journal will be continued 
without material change in form 
BULLETIN DE L’HERBIER BorssiER for Dec., 1895, and Jan. 1896, | 
contain papers of unusual interest to American botanists. In the for- 
mer, the Mexican collection, known as Plante Seleriane and dete! 
mined by numerous specialists, is presented in part. In the latter, 
Renauld and Cardot discuss certain species distributed in their Musa 
America Septentrionalis Exsiccati. 
THE EXPLORATION of Central Africa is bringing to light many plat 
of great interest. Splendid forests of what are called “cedars lave | 
n discover anje : he gr 
This “cedar” is a Widdringtonia, somewhat distantly allied to Fait 
presses. It seems nowas though it is an isolated plant, somew 
the Sequoias of our own Pacific slope. i 
NEW TERMS are constantly arising in botanical literature. be 
the latest is “heterotopic,” applied by F. X. Gillot (Bull. ik 
France 41: 16) to those plants which are occasionally found OF fe 
apparently very different from their normal substratum. The 
ence, M. Gillot shows, is more seeming than real. rm | 
as to 
t only bY 
the fact that Caswvarina has no antipodal cells, which seems bi! pe 
also of certain amentaceous genera, but now by the fact Fe velopel 
announced to be chalazogamic by Nawaschin, shows well-de 
: ief a 
Mr. Hemsuey, in Gardner’s Chronicle (Jan. 11th), gives : ee 
Z is the 
Inst., now having reached its 2 been made te 
v 7th volume, has been : 
of botanical discovery. In it about 5 50 new species of flowering 
have been described, but among them all there is but one P 
and that an inconspicuous one 
MS 
HE VALUABLE COLLECTIONS of Mr. J. B. Ellis of Newfield i 
have been purchased by the New York Botanic Garden, & herbal , 
