95 



(Schweinitz). 

 D. hepalicum (Ach.). C; Pal. d. w. 



= E. hepalicum Ach. 

 D. rufescens (Ach.) Zahlbr. C. d. w. 



= E. rufescens (Ach.). 

 D. miniatuni (L.) Mann. Orange Co., N. Y.; 



= E. miniatum (IL.) Schaer. Youngs, L. I. d. w. 



D. fluviatile (Weis.) Th. Fr. C. t. 



= E. miniatum aquatium 

 Schaer. 

 D. minialiitn complicalum Sw. C; Pal. t. 



= E. miniatum complicalutn 

 Schaer. 



Family 5. Verrucariaceae 

 Genus i. Thromhium (see Verrucaria). 

 Genus 2. Verrucaria epigaea (Pers.) 



Ach. C. t. 



= Throm.biutn epigaea (Pers.) 

 Walbr. 

 V. nilida Schrad. C. t. 



= Pyrenula nitida (Ach.) 

 Weig. 

 Boys High School, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



NEWS ITEMS. 



Dr. M. A. Brannon, dean of the college of letters and science, 

 and professor of botany, at the University of North Dakota, 

 assumed the duties of president at the University of Idaho on 

 April I. 



Professor Bohumil Shimek, of the department of botany, 

 University of Iowa, sailed for Europe on April 9. He will spend 

 six months abroad studying the work and methods of various 

 European universities, and will devote considerable time to a 

 study of the loess formations of the Old World. Professor Shimek 

 will deliver a series of lectures at the University of Prague during 

 May and June. 



We learn from Science that the seventieth birthday, on March 

 25, of Professor Adolf Engler, the director of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden and Museum at Dahlem, near Berlin, was celebrated in 

 the presence of many eminent German and foreign botanists, 

 by several functions. According to the account in Nature, on 



