890 General Notes, [September, 
with profit, we apprehend, to the botanists and also to the Na- 
tional Herbarium.— Charles E, Bessey. 
BoranicaL News.—The subject of bacteriology received espe- 
cial attention in the July number of the Botanical Gazette, there 
being no less than a dozen notes and notelets devoted to it, be- 
sides four reviews of books upon the same subject. Clara E. 
Cummings, of Wellesley, Mass., has prepared a neat catalogue ot 
the Musci and Hepatic of North America north of Mexico, 
which will prove useful to botanists who collect specimens in 
ese classes of plants. The arrangement of the mosses is based 
upon Lesquereux and James’ Manual of Mosses, and that of the 
liverworts upon Underwood’s Catalogue of the North American 
Hepatice. There are enumerated 888 species of mosses and 231 
of liverworts, besides many varieties. Copies may be procured 
of the author for thirty-five cents each. The Bulletin of the 
Brookville Society of Natural History, recently issued, contains 
two articles of botanical interest, viz., The Flora of Franklin 
county (Indiana), by O. M. Meyncke, and Microscopical Notes, 
by E.G. Grahn. The former is restricted to the “ exogens,” and 
is little more than a bare list, containing but few notes. he 
second paper contains a list of diatoms and desmids.——A late 
number of the Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 
contains a readable paper by W. K. Higley on the Northern 
