80 General Notes. [Jan. 
the science of plants,—not in some narrow department of it. He 
must lay the foundation for ay specialty, not for a particular 
one. Some of his pupils will become phanerogamists, some 
caricologists, some graminologists, some pteridologists, and so 
on, and he must be ready to guide them intelligently in their 
work. He must keep himself well informed in every department 
of the science. 
There are three journals in the United States devoted entirely 
to botany. They occupy somewhat different fields, and accord- 
ingly have different values for different people. The Botanical 
Gazette, now eleven years old, is “ devoted to all subjects which 
relate to botanical science.” From the beginning the structural 
' and physiological side of botany has been emphasized as mucl 
as possible, but the systematic botany of all the grand divisions 
of the vegetable kingdom has received due attention. From 
this journal the young botanist will obtain a very good idea 
of modern botany in all its departments. The Bulletin of the 
Lorrey Botanical Club is the oldest of our botanical journals. 
For many years it was, as its name indicates, devoted mainly to 
local botany, being the organ of a botanical club in the city of 
ew York. Systematic botany has always predominated in this 
journal, and its pages contain the descriptions of many new spe- 
cies. Since 1880 it has been given a wider range, and now in- ` 
cludes papers on all botanical subjects, and is well adapted to help 
the young botanist. These are the best botanical journals for 
the teacher, with which the present writer is familiar in any 
country. There is nothing abroad which comes near to them in 
general helpfulness. The Yournal of Botany (London) is practi- 
many papers on systematic botany. 
Of special journals,—z.c., those devoted to particular branches 
of the science,—we have one in the United States, viz., The Four- 
nal of Mycology, now two years old. As its name indicates, it is 
_ devoted exclusively to the botany of the fungi. Thus far special 
attention has been given to the description of new species and 
Synopses of various families, with descriptions of the species. It 
is indispensable to the student of the fungi. The English jour- 
nal, Grevillea, takes a wider range, aiming to be a “record of 
cryptogamic botany and its literature.” Its articles aré for the 
most part systematic, relatively few of them being structural or 
- physiological. Hedwigia (Dresden) is much like Grevillea in 
_ plan and execution. A most valuable special periodieal, of an 
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