NOTES AND NEWS. 
_ THE syNonymy of certain Yuccas is presented by Dr. C. S. Sargent 
In Garden and Forest (March 11th), which involves giving a new name, 
¥. mohavensis, to the Y. baccata Engelm., not Torrey. 
PaRTs 131-133 of Die natitrlichen Pflanzenfamilien, just issued, are 
eitirely the work of Dr. Engler himself, presenting Rusacee, with 111 
genera, Simarubacee, with 28 genera, and the beginning of Burseracea. 
_ THE FOLLOWING North American plants have been figured recently 
In Garden and Forest: Nolina recurvata (March 4th), Lippia iodantha 
a 11th), Nymphaea tetragona (April 1st), Oreodoxa regia (April 
IN THE Marcu number of Bulletin de I Herbier Botssier Tonduz 
pe thes his interesting account of the flora of Costa Rica; and 
teyn publishes another fascicle of new or noteworthy oriental plants, 
chiefly Liliaceze, 
A New East Indian species of Phytophthora, (P. icotiane) which 
otra a serious disease of tobacco is described and figured by Dr. 
K. Muopziansky publishes in Garden and Forest (March 
owth of 
accretion increases continuously in rate unti 
years, at which time this pine reaches its maximum growth. 
R. GEoRcGE M i Bot. April), with plate, 
in ASSEE has published (/our. Bot. Apri), 
i, vtiPtions of certain new or critical fungi. Clypeum (Hystertacea) 
A eg as a new genus from New Zealand. Several of the ne 
i, cS are from the United States, and the generic name Spragucola 
3 Proposed for a New England fungus communicated by Isaac 
ae to Berkeley and referred by him to Miruda, regar ding it the 
, °S Spathularia crispata Fr. It now stands 
SCHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE observed Friday, “gd ea 
bor D : 
dent J. i” ey panne exercises, which included epg Me’ of 
cts?” Th, W. J. Beal, on “What now shou 
M he exercises were interspersed wit 
«ay of PH. KNow.ton announces in Science 
an American amber-producing tree. The 
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April 17th) the discov- 
i aber described 
