1896.] Zoology. 587 
Again he is asked, “ Flowers, Complete or Incomplete? Why?” and 
is allowed a line exactly two inches long in which to give an answer to 
a question before which the wisest botanist may well quail. When will 
teachers realize that botanists are not made by the use of such “ helps ” 
any more than Latin scholars are made by the use of “ ponies”? 
—CHARLEs E. Bessey. 
Botanical News.—The Director of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 
den at St. Louis calls attention in a printed circular to the advantages 
for study afforded by this important institution. Its herbarium includes 
nearly 250,000 specimens, and its library about 10,000 volumes and 
11,000 pamphlets. 
A. H. Curtiss, of Jacksonville, Florida, is distributing fine sets of the 
Marine Algæ of Florida. Each set contains fifty species and is sold 
for five dollars. 
Professor Bruce Fink, of Fayette, Iowa, offers sets of Iowa Lichens, 
ineluding about 200 species which he sells at the low price of six cents 
eac 
We are glad to see another number of Pittonia, the very useful 
periodical which Professor E. L. Greene issues from time to time. The 
new. part (13) contains papers on the Nomenclature of the Fuller’s 
Teasel, a Proposed New Genus of Cruciferae; New or Noteworthy 
Species ; New Genus of Polemonianae, and New Mexican Eupatori- 
acee—CHARLES E. Brssry. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Japanese Leeches.—The discovery of three new land leeches in 
Japan is of interest to geologists since but one species, Haemadipsa 
japonica Whitman, is all that has been known to occur in that country. 
The three new species are members of a genus separated from all the 
genera of land leeches hitherto defined. An account of their external 
characters and a general outline of their internal organization are pre- 
sented by Dr. Asajiro Oka in a recent number of the journal published 
by the Imperial University of Japan. For the new genus the author 
proposes the name Orobdella. The species of this genus are found in 
various mountainous parts of Japan, crawling under moss and fallen 
leaves, or in moist earth, in the same manner as earthworms, which con- 
