1896.] Notes and News. 381 
Mr. C. G. Lioyp of Cincinnati, Ohio, has distributed a list of 243 
tostudents, and in other ways, that his request for donations of the 
larger fungi, especially of such as preserve their characters when dried, 
should meet with a hearty response from collectors. 
A Flora of the Alps, intended especially for English visitors, is an- 
tounced for the spring of 1896, from the hand of Mr. Alfred W. Ben- 
nett, lecturer on botany at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. It is to 
| tm two octavo volumes, with 120 colored plates—not exactly a 
landy size, one would think, for tourists. The Fora will of course 
)iclude many alpine plants of the adjacent mountain districts of 
France, Italy, and Austria. 
THE NEXT VOLUME in the “Rural Science Series” will probably be 
Professor Bailey’s monograph of Zhe Apple. * is to com- 
btise two parts, the first treating of all the practical matters of apple- 
swing, and the second of such scientific matters as the botany of 
the apple, its history and evolution, production of new varieties, and 
the like. It is expected the work will be completed and ready tor 
publication in the fall—Book Reviews. 
ig te Roentgen rays” are compared, in Gardeners’ Chronicle (May 2), 
With the feeble but very penetrating light given out by 
“nt fungi.” Mr. W. G. Smith records having seen the light of phos- 
Plorescent mycelia “penetrating several thicknesses of packing paper 
11875 he “recorded the light as having been distinctly seen through 
no thicknesses of writing paper;” while in 1872 “the Rev. M. J. 
f teley has recorded an instance of the phosphorescent light from 
Ong penetrating through five thicknesses of paper, the light penetrat- 
ng through all the folds on either side of the example, as if the spect- 
€N was exposed.” 
WE arE INFORMED by M. Cardot that he intends sending to the 
National Herbarium the original types of most of the pees = 
_ Pecles of mosses already described by Renauld and himself. = a of 
_ Promises that in the future, whenever it is possible, a type of eac 
rei appreciated. We wish the custom might spread among all 
«THER 
-~ BOTANICAL COURSES Offered at t 
Vetsity of p tia s follows: 
ennsylvania, beginning July 6th, are as fo : 
Q lectures = T ri and distribution of flowering 
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useums; five lectures on “Fungous diseases of plants, 
' Byron D. Halsted, of Rutgers College. 
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