224 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
“ MouLpbs, MILDEWS, AND MusHrooms,” is the alliterative title of a 
guide to the systematic study of the fungi and mycetozoa and their liters — 
ture, by Professor Lucien Marcus Underwood of Columbia, author of Ox 
Native Ferns and their Allies. \t is to be issued shortly by Messrs. Henry — 
Holt & Company. : 
Dr. WALTER S. SWINGLE has returned to this country after several 
months of travel abroad. He has brought with him many interesting and 
valuable economic plants that will be given an opportunity to make this 
country their home. The date palm and the truffle are, perhaps, the best- 
known forms whose introduction into this country would be greatly welcomed. 
THE SECRETARY of Agriculture has planned “a publication which shall 
contain a résumé of the achievements of the United States in every branch 
science as related to agriculture during the nineteenth century, for distribu- 
tion at the Paris Exposition.”” Each of the bureaus and divisions charged 
with scientific work has been directed to contribute one or ype 
land owners to apply the principles of forestry. The division solicits cores 
pondence regarding every such effort in order that it may make a pr 
showing of the extent of this sort of work. 
