2904 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (NOL. XXXII. 
those whose duties confine them more closely to the University, have 
been quite fully outlined by Dr. Engler and his associates in recent 
numbers of Gartenflora. The concluding article, in the issue for 
January 15, contains a small map illustrating the general features of 
the planting and the location of the buildings. 
Botanical Notes. — A further contribution to the systematic value 
of seed anatomy is published by Pritzel, in Heft 3 of Ængler’s Bo- 
tanische Jahrbiicher for 1897, in which the endosperm is discussed 
in detail for representatives of a considerable number of genera, 
especially of the Parietales. 
The January number of Jorstlich-Naturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 
contains a description, by Tubeuf, of an aberrant form of our white 
pine, which is descriptively called Pinus strobus, forma monophylla. 
In the Berichte der bayerischen botanischen Gesellschaft, Bd. v, 1897, 
Andreas Allescher describes a considerable number of new “fungi 
imperfecti,” which, although the types are of Bavarian collection, in 
many cases occur on hosts that grow also in the United States, so 
that students of this class of form species need to make note of them. 
The double root cap of Tropæolum, described by Flahault in 1878, 
forms the subject of a communication to the French Academy by M. 
Brunotte, published in the Comptes Rendus of January 17. Itis held 
that the supernumerary sheath originates. from the proliferation of 
the cells of the suspensor. 
The study of the hibernacula of plants has received an important 
extension in an examination of the reproductive organs of a number 
of species of Pteridophytes and Phanerogams, the results of which 
are published by Mr. Chamberlain in the Botanical Gazette for Feb- 
ruary, under the title “ Winter Characters of Certain Sporangia.” 
A careful study of the ecological phases of a Scandinavian sand 
flora is contributed by Erikson to the botanical section of volume 
xxii of the Zransactions of the Royal Swedish Academy. 
The Annals of Scottish Natural History for January contains an 
article on the flora of Tiree, by Macvicar, and one on the topo- 
graphical botany of Scotland, by Professor Trail, as an addition to 
the well-known Topographical Botany of the late H. C. Watson. 
Professor Spegazzini contributes to the fifth volume of the Anales 
del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, for 1896-97, just received, a 
paper on Fuegian plants collected in 1882, in which eighteen species 
and one variety — all Phanerogams — are described as new. Five of © 
the species are figured. 
