1881.] Zoblogy. 653 
comycetes 44, Myxomycetes 1, and of the so-called imperfect fungi 
33. In Century vir, there are of Basidiomycetes 13, Ascomycetes 
42. Mixomycetes 2, miscellaneous species and imperfect forms 43. 
These five sets, which now aggregate 700 species, are well nigh in- 
dispensable to the botanist who wishes to intelligently study the 
lower plants. Their cheapness ($7 per Century, mounted and 
labeled), ought to commend them to the curators of college her- 
baria. Professor Spalding, of the University of Michigan, has 
reprinted from the Therapeutic Gazette, an interesting pamphlet of 
16 pp. on Ustilago maydis, the smut of Indian corn. Several 
wood-cuts serve to illustrate the text. Dr. Sturtevant has been 
Studying the subject of seedless fruits, and has embodied his re- 
sults in a paper recently printed by the Massachusetts Horticul- 
tural Society. He has brought together a large number of very 
curious facts. G. E. Davenport describes in the June 7Zorrey 
Bulletin a new fern, Cheilanihes Parishii, from California. An ex- 
cellent plate, by Faxon, accompanies the text—Professor 
uckeman in the same number of the Bu//etin directs attention to 
logue of the Musci of the valleys of the Serchio and the Magra 
(central Italy west of the Appenines), by Fitzgerald and Bottini, 
ccupies about 100 pp. of the April number of Wuove Giornale 
otanico Italiano. Three hundred and sixty-nine species are ~ 
ire Full notes as to habitat and locality accompany each 
en ry. 
ZOOLOGY. 
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