76 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
en among the Thallophytes, raise ey in species having 4 
siphonous thallus, whether colored (Algz) or colorless (Fungi). In 
Coeitlarin: Ustilago and some other genera, however, Professor 
Squamarie, which, it appears, have an arrangement of creeping 
filaments such as have been described by Thuret and mn in 
eae fe ett F. 
arbon de V Oignon or apie by Dr. Max ro 
In sa pain Rendus of July, Cornu records the appearance 
in the markets of Paris of - aaa: oe Cepule. The 
disease which is known to have been n Connecticut 
and Massachusetts for a Sa of years, ads sist eee hitherto 
observed in France. Dr. Cornu considers U. U; epulce - = “ 
oat Sishefokeahsnagepsechiclie einiger Rostpilze, by Dr rf Somme 
x.—This paper. 5, eng . base per sheeta of an article 
rthco 
rs we are more indebted to Dr. Schroeter than to any other 
otanist. It includes as persis of the Zeto ean species of Pue- 
cinia which are found on the Umbellifere. In reading the papery 
one sees at what a complicated condition the study of the Uredi- 
net has arrived; and that no one but a specialist can hereafter 
expect to be able to understand what is written on the different 
transformations of this most perplexing a of plants. w. G. F. 
1H; gency Necrology Aes the year 1 
Wiuam T. Fray, M.D., died at Sowaadhh. Georgia, on the 
22d of Mav; at the age of not far from 76 years. His remains lie 
in Laurel Grove Cemetery, under the shadow of the noble live 
oaks whose boughs are funereally draped with long tufts of Til- 
landsia usneoides, swinging mournfully in the air. This cemetery 
in the neighborhood of Savannah is associated in the writer's 
in Dr E with this estimable botanist; for his only visit to = was 
r, Feay’s company one spring morning. e had known him 
w 
2 saat with this most amiable man. Dr. Feay was one of 
those botanists who know very much and never publish any- a 
thing, and who, though living a useful life, poet fail to play the 
part to which ag are entitled. He was born in South Carolina, 
studied a while at the University of Georgia, " gv s; then 
studied medicine at Charleston in his native State, but later 
turned his mind to scientific studies and to classical scholarship. 
It is reported that, at a critical period of life, he wasted a ery sid- 
patie — some excesses; and that when he ca 
himself and had to live by his own exertions, he chose the Tife of 
a sre heeckor To this vocation, and to his botanical pursult its 
as an avocation, he devoted himself entirely for the rest of his life, 
