NEWS. 
Mr. T. S. BRANDEGEE spent last September, October, and November in 
collecting plants in Lower California. 
Dr. DouGias H. CAMPBELL has been spending some time in Berlin, 
and is now in Egypt for the rest of the winter. His address is in care of 
Union Bank, London, 
PROFESSOR W. L. JEPSON, of the University of California, has in prepa- 
ration an illustrated book designed to serve as a popular guide to a study of 
the trees of California. Besides the descriptions, it will contain a key to the 
species, based chiefly upon the form of the leaves and other obvious or easily 
determined characters. 
THE EDITOR of Evythea announces in the December number, part 1 
(received January 17), that with the completion of the seventh volume Erythea 
will be discontinued. ‘Part 2... . will contain one or two remaining 
articles, Erythea l’envoi, and the title page and index to the current volute 
This part will be ready within two months, or as soon thereafter as possible.: 
AT A RECENT meeting of the board of trustees of the University of 
Wyoming, the herbarium connected with this institution was officially 
recognized as the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, and the professor of botany 
in the University was named as its curator. In order that this collection of 
plants might! definitely desig 1 heretofore, it was deemed advis- 
able to distinguish it by some descriptive name. The above was che 
because it expresses the purpose of those who are endeavoring to bu 
viz., to make it an accessible and serviceable collection of the plants of ee 
Rocky mountains. It is established on such a basis as to insure its perma 
nency and it is hoped that it will find among the botanists of the pee 
states so many friends as to insure its rapid development. Whileit is intende 
to make the collection a general one, plants of economic importance will have 
particular attention, especially forage plants of all kinds, useful and orna 
mental trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. Parasitic fungi, and, as fast t 
facilities will permit, fleshy fungi, are to be fully represented. Such 4:0 
lection will not only be of interest but of real service to the many ae 
of Rocky mountain plants, and the cooperation of all botanists and — 
is requested. The present collection, nearly 18,000 sheets, is merely ' 
nucleus about which the curator hopes to build, but such as it is, ts 
at the service of all botanists. 
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