1895.] Botany. 277 
delphia (65 pp.) containing descriptions of new species of fungi from 
various localities. Of these there are Hymenomycetes, 10 species; 
Pyrenomycetes, 72 ; Discomycetes, 22; Sphaeropsideæ, 91 ; Hyphomy- 
cetes, 46; or a total of 241. 
“The Special Senses of Plants” is the title of a thoughtful and sug- 
gestive paper by Dr. J. C. Arthur, published in the Proceedings of 
the Indiana Academy of Sciences. The author discusses gravity 
sense, light sense, moisture sense, heat sense, and contact sense. The 
paper should be read by every teacher, whether he teach botany or not. 
Professor Penhallow’s paper, “ Observations upon Some Structural 
Variations in Certain Canadian Conifer” in the Transactions of the 
Royal Society of Canada, contains histological discussions pertaining to 
Pseudotsuga douglasii, Larix occidentalis, Pinus ponderosa and Pinus 
albicaulis. It is illustrated by four plates containing nineteen figures. 
The always welcome Annual Report of the State Botanist of the 
State of New York has recently been received. As usual it shows that 
the flora of a region as well worked as that of New York contains many 
hitherto undescribed species, mostly of the lower plants, ea one flower- 
ing plant (a Carex) proves to be new.—CHARLES E. Bess 
