104 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
author has provisionally —, — the cases of wilting on the 
three plants mentioned above are due to ae ions of the same 
species of Sisondentabceid He fa vile d, howe to inoculate from 
one plant to the other; soil in which Melon wilted very peed 
roved na oon to Cotton and Cow-pea. The same results have 
frequently been obtained in the case of Uredinee; forms at a are 
morphologically similar, dirs prove to be distinct biological species. 
Mr. Smith i é congratulated on the sisbopatal results of his 
long and shot oie —A.L. 8. 
Tue first part has just appeared of what seems to be an excellent 
a ee: Flore Grace by Dr, E.v. Halacsy. We hope to say more 
of it lat 
Tar New York Garden, in addition to its other publications, 
has begun to issue a Journal, under the Asti of D. T. 
Mas iatedt, which is wr contain ‘notes, news, and non-technical 
articles of general interest.’ We note, sy the way, that the Kew 
Bulletin oe to present an exam mple of ‘arrested develop- 
ment”: no number has appeared since that for ‘ September and 
October, ‘1899. 4 
HE recent part (dated Dec. 29, 1899) of Minnesota Botanical 
Studies is mainly devoted to Mr. Bruce Fink’s investigations on 
i a. Mr. Freeman writes 
sy 
a and Mr. F. K. Butters on Rhodymenia, each Pp fies er 
being illustrated; and Mr. K. C. Davis gives a systematic con- 
Spectus of = native and garden Aquilegias and Aconitums of 
North Americ 
Naturelle, and wha ose name for more than that peered has bei 
C 
M. Franchet’s name was familiar to botanists as the auth in 
conjunction with M. Savatier, of the useful Hnumeratio Plantar wnt 
Japonicarum. 
Messrs. Bacxnovss, of York, issue a quarto list of ‘“ Botanical 
Material” area selected and prepared for use in bota wie 
its fa on pecimens lied are ap- 
ded; these suggest that if botanical lectures should become 
com unerative branch of industry might be 
opened up—“ Narcissus flowers, fresh, 1s. 6d. to 8s. dozen” must 
ete an ample margin of profit; and Lamium Galeobdolon or pur- 
eum, ‘inflorescence from 1s. doz.” would well repay the col- 
Testor. There is a useful index 
