Botany and Zoology. 123 
pamph., pp. 64.—Professor Brunet has brought out this convenient cata- 
logue for the special purpose mentioned in the title; but it ought to be 
otherwise useful. me as not numbered the s as nor given their 
cluded. But there is no menti of Smilax, nor of Juniperus Sabina, 
nor of the Red Spruce, nor Gta “Oak, both probabl mere varieties of 
other species, but worthy of examination by Canadian botanists. There 
are, also, two distinct kinds of Mountain Ash growing in the vicinity of 
Histoire des Picea qut se rencontrent dans les limites du Canada, is 
smaller pamphlet by the same-author, issued in 1866, with a plate of the 
two species, P. alba and nigra—the White and Black Spruce, and two 
Photograph views of trees of the former. The glaucous-leaved variety 
of the aeeg Spruce, the common and almost the sole form of the species 
tern New En ngla nd, is named by Prof. Brunet, var. grisea ; it is 
nate called in Canada cee oe or Gray Spruce. ey 0 
it more “hip a Anse oi ars 
3. tof Proceedings of é ‘International Horticultural Exhibition 
and Botanical Congress hel 7 in reine May 22-31, 1866.—We re- 
Grasses, &e., in this way, has now made up, from his recent collections 
a California, a dozen sets of beautiful and complete specimens of about & 
epg of choice Californian plants ; of which over one-third are : 
are 
ean be had for $12 in curren r hundred, by making early applica- 
en to Mr. Horace Mann, at H poids a8 University Herbarium, —_ 
x? Growth of Lycoperdon giganteum ; by F. Moreno, in the ‘Chem. 
News Apr. "18, 160 —The unexpected observation of the Lycoperdon 
SF ganteum ir as led M. Ernest Baudrimont — very interesting ae a 
sae days after its apparition at the — 
‘Aequired 1 tonetlenstadiie Plucked on von ease 17, 1866, whe le 
commenced to decrease visibl it was nes y of a regular s phero : 
) With a very sh a F See "a a very beauti titel om 
