1897.] Botany. 715 
collection of morphological and physiological works, nearly 500 care- 
fully selected botanical volumes published before the period of Linnæus, 
an unusually large number of monographs of groups of cryptogams 
and flowering plants, and the entire manuscript notes and sketches 
representing the painstaking work of Engelmann. A complete author’s 
catalogue of the library, shelf-marked to indicate the principal subject 
contents of the several works, is now in process of preparation, and will 
shortly be published. 
“These facilities are freely placed at the disposal of professors of 
botany and other persons competent to carry on research work of value 
in botany or horticulture, subject only to such simple restrictions as are 
necessary to protect the property of the Garden from injury or loss.” 
It has been the hope of the editor of this department of the NATURAL- 
IsT that the Missouri Botanical Garden should become a great inland 
laboratory for research in systematic, morphological and physiological 
botany, to which duly accredited students might be sent from the uni- 
versities of the Mississippi Valley. There are many problems for whose 
solution botanists need tropical and sub-tropical laboratories, but there 
are many more for which just such facilities as are being provided by 
Dr. Trelease are far more useful; while the much milder climate of 
St. Louis, to say nothing of the difference in travelling and living ex- 
penses, still more fully justify the effort to establish this research labora- 
tory. The returns for a certain outlay will be much greater than in 
some distant laboratory, and it will be far more profitable for universi- 
ties to endow tables here than in less accessible places. 
—Cuar.es E. Bessey. 
Botanical Notelets.—Mr. C. G. Lloyd has issued his Second 
Report on the Lloyd Mycological Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio), from 
which we learn that on the first day of January, 1897, it contained 
1431 specimens, representing 760 species. From it we learn also that 
the botanical library of the Museum contains 4387 bound volumes and 
about 2000 pamphlets. In this connection we may mention again the 
series of beautiful photogravures of American Fungi issued by Mr- 
Lloyd, in which the species are represented with wonderful fidelity. 
Dr. C. Hart Merriam has recently described (Proc. Biol. Socy. 
Washington, 10: 115) a new species of fir tree from the San Francisco 
and Kendrick Mts. of Arizona. It has hitherto been confused with 
Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt., (Abies subalpina Engelm.) from which 
it differs in its corky bark, longer leaves, smaller cones and broader 
scales. He names it A. arizonica. 
