1897.] Botany. 343 
black, mostly subseriately arranged. Asci clavate-cylindrical, 50-60 
x 6-7, obscurely paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia subbiseriate, oblong- 
cylindrical, slightly curved, obtuse, brown, uniseptate, but not con- 
stricted, 12-15 x 3-33». 
The white substance of the stroma is surrounded by a thin, black 
layer, which, on a horizontal section, shows as a black line. Stroma 
orbicular or elongated, 2 mm,-1 cm. long.—J. B. Eris and B. M. 
EVERHARDT. 
(To be continued.) 
Botanical News.—The second century of Josephine E. Tilden’s | 
American Algæ has been distributed. It continues to maintain 
the high standard of excellence possessed by the first century. We 
should prefer to see the editor confine this distribution to the fresh- 
water alge, since every marine form is but a duplicate of what one 
finds in so many other sets. 
Professor L. H. Bailey’s “Teacher’s Leaflets,” promise to be of 
great value, if we may judge from the one issued December Ist, en- 
titled “How a Squash Plant Gets Out of the Seed.” It consists of 
seven pages of text illustrated by fourteen new figures of every stage of 
the process. This leaflet should be in the hands of every High-School 
teacher of Botany. 
We are glad to notice that the handy “ Guide to the Organic Drugs 
of the United States Pharmacopzia,” prepared by John S. Wright 
and published by Eli Lilly & Co., of Indianapolis, has reached its 
thirteenth thousand, and has been revised and greatly improved. 
“ Fodder and Forage Plants,” by Jared G. Smith ; “ Useful and Or- 
namental Grasses,” by F. Lamson Scribner, and “ Studies on American 
Grasses,” are repectively Bulletins 2, 3 and 4 of the Division of Ag- 
rostology in the United States Department of Agriculture. They have 
both a practical and scientific interest, and reflect credit upon the au- 
thors. In Bulletin 4. some generic changes are proposed, and a num- 
ber of new species are described. The generic name Chaetoch/oa is 
proposed for Setaria (preoccupied), Chamaeraphis for Ixophorus (dis- 
tinct genera). Accordingly the familiar Setaria glauca is hereafter to 
be Chaetochloa (L.) Scribn., S. viridis will be C. viridis (L.) Scribn., 
and S. italica C. italica (L.) Seribn. 
The second bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden (issued 
January 1st) contains, in addition to Dr. Britton’s vice-presidential 
address on Botanical Gardens (given before Section F of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science), reports, plans, maps, reg- 
ulations, ete. The map showing the general plan of the Garden is very 
