136 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
munere lectissime, literata virtute & familia in Anglia illustri, 
Heroine Catherine Killigrese quas ferunt repertas magna copia ad 
vilus nauem illisam, nullimve incu ace factum n quo 
tannis nous inueniuntur, part m fluitantes & par rtim ape 
immerse sabulis littoreis, sa oo & putan Cornubiensis maris 
a e 
first wife of Sir Henry eres) she is described as being 
proficient in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. The earliest account of 
drift seeds in the botanic portion of the Voyage of the ‘Challenger’ 
is that of Sloane, 1696, and the next in Amvenitates Academica, 
vii. 477, resp. Tonning, the thesis being dated 1765. Mr. Hemsley, 
to whom I have shown "the above-cited passage, is of opinion sa 
it constitutes the set record of such occurrences. — B. Dayp 
JACKSON. 
SOME ALGOLOGICAL LITERATURE OF 1899. 
ee from p. 98.) 
Tue Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club publishes some 
‘‘ Observations on Viena by Prof. Conway MacMillan. He 
Wille and F. W. Oliver. He agrees with Prof. Oliver in regarding 
the trumpet-shaped hyphe and the sieve-tubes as ‘separate struc- 
tural elements not to be confused on account of their similar 
perforated end-plates.” He notes that in jeune material the sieve- 
tubes are abundant, while in other plants they disappear, and the 
hyphe abound. The author has seen no branching of the sieve- 
tubes as described ‘eg Prof. Oliver for Mest yecce: though this 
occurs in the trumpet-shaped hyphe. Cryptostomata are found 
only on the young plant, where they are present on both stipe and 
lamina. They “appear as short irregular furrows, from the surface 
of which tufts of two- or three-celled hairs are produced.’ Eac 
u canal exists there ig rro rof. “gre eren 
suggests that the mucilage ca page are closed-ir -in furrows, and tha 
o-called cryptostomata are tages in this ak 
inside a conceptacle. It is not stated if in these plants there is a 
connection between the furrows and the oe, canals. 
- Minnesota Botanical Studies, ser. 2, pt. iii. (Dec.), contains two 
papers on alge—‘ Observations on Chlovcchegtriain” by BE. M. 
