1046 The American Naturalist. [December, 
Correction.—On page 748, by a slip of the pen the “ popple” of the 
Colorado Mountains is given as Populus balsamifera candicans ; it 
should be P. tremuloides—_Cu ares E. Bussey. 
Botanical News.—A suggestive pamphlet on “The Pathology of 
Plants” by B. T. Galloway comes from the Office of Experiment 
Stations of the United States Department of Agriculture. Its object 
is to point out certain lines of work in plant pathology that might be 
undertaken by botanists in the state experiment stations—From the 
Division of Agrostology, (U. S. Dept. Agriculture) we have “ Fodder 
and Forage Plants, exclusive of the Grasses” a pamphlet of fifty-eight 
pages, by Jared G. Smith. It is a descriptive, illustrated list of these 
plants, written in semi-popular language. It will be of value not only to 
stock growers, but to scientific botanists as well—Professor W. J. Beal has 
recently published a Report of the Botanical Department of the Mich- 
igan Agricultural College from which we learn that there are in the 
herbarium 54,243 specimens, and that the botanic garden, begun in 
1877 now contains 1335 species.—The Contributions from the U. 8. 
National Herbarium (Vol. III, No. 9) issued August 5, 1896 contains 
the following papers: The Flora of Southwestern Kansas, a report on 
a collection of plants made by C. H. Thompson in 1893, by A. S. 
Hitchcock ; Crepis accidentalis and its allies, by F. V. Coville ; Plants 
from the Big-Horn Mountains of Wyoming, by J. N. Rose; Leibergia, 
a new genus of Umbelliferse from the Columbia River Region, by J. 
M. Coulter and J. N. Rose; Roseanthus, a new genus of Cucurbitacee 
from Acapulco, Mexico, by Alfred Cogniaux. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Notes on Turbellaria.—1, On THE OccuRENCE OF BIPALIUM 
KEWENSE (MOSELEY) IN THE UNITED STATES. : 
Since the appearance of Moseley’s' paper in 1878 the species has 
been recorded from other parts of Great Britain and Ireland, and from 
Berlin and Frankfurt, A. M. on the continent. It has also been found 
at the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, in the colonies of Queensland, — 
New South Wales and Victoria in Australia, at Auckland in New Zea- 
1 Moseley, H. N. Description of a New Species of Land-Planarian from peed 
Hothouses at Kew Garden. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5. Vol I, pp- 237-20" 
1878. 
