Te eee > The American Naturalist. 
National Museum, publishes in the proceedings of that instit 
suggestive paper on the leaves of Liriodendron, being a stud 
leaf-forms observed on individual trees, Thirty-eight figures 
forms of fossil leaves may have little real foundation. Certainly tl 
are as marked differences between some of the leaf-forms fig 
Mr. Holm as there are between those often regardad ass 
paleobotanists——Two ‘‘garden scholarships” will be award 
the director of the Missouri Botanical Garden prior to the fi 
the well-known mycologist. 
Generale de Botanique, Henri Jumelle publishes an interesti 
on the influence of anesthetics on the transpiration of plants. 
ingenious apparatus plants were subjected to the fumes of ether, 
it was found that although assimilation was stopped, the transpit 
of water was greatly increased.—Part V. of Macoun’s Catal 
Canadian Plants has just come to hand. It is devoted to the Ac 
_and a long list of “‘ additions and corrections’’ to the precs 
~ Thirteen species of Equisetum are enumerated, sixty-four 
ferns and adder-tongues, and twenty-two Lycopods and 
ee This | part completes volume II. of the catalogue. In part 
will begin a new volume, we are promised the Characee, 
“Hepaticee. —In a recent number (January, 1891) of t 
ceutische Rundschau Dr. Power and Mr. Cambier oe e 
their chemical examination of two “ Loco-Weeds,”’ viz 
~ mollissimus Torrey, and Crotalaria sagittalis L. —A rec 
Ta m the rien cs Chronicle contains figures of the fungus 
- Jæticolor which causes the k ates on grapes in England. 
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