down to a pocket size, every teacher ought to insist upon 
this edition for use in his botanizing classes. It is understood 
that the revision will include the plants of the prairies, and 
of the great plains up to the eastern limits of the region cov- 
ered by "Coulter's Manual," i. e., about the looth meridian. 
— Charles E. Bessey. 
Distribution of Kansas Fungi. — Dr. W. A. Kellerman 
and Mr. W. T. Swingle, well known mycological students of 
Manhattan, Kansas, have undertaken to make a distribution of 
Kansas fungi. The first fascicle consists of twenty-five spe- 
cies very neatly put up, with printed labels. The species 
represented are the following: 
Aecidium aesculi E. & K. Aecidium dicentrae Trelease. 
Ceratophoriim uncinatum (Clinton) Sacc. Cercospora cucurbi- 
tae E. & E. Cercospora desmanthi E. &. K. Cercospora later- 
it ia Ell. & Halsted. Cercospora seminalis E. & E. Gloeospori- 
7im apocryptiun E. & E. Gloeosporium decipiens E. & E. 
Melasmia gleditschiae E. & E. Microsphaera quercina (Schw.) 
Burrill. Peronospora artJmri Farlow. Peronospora corydalis 
DeBary. Phragmidhmi speciosum Fr. Puccinia emaculata 
Schw. Puccinia schedonnardi Kell. & Sw. Puccinia {Lepto- 
puccinia xanthii) Schw. Ramularia virgaureae Thuem. Roes- 
tclia pyrata (Schw.) Thaxter. Scolecotrichum maculicola E. & 
K. Septoria argophylla E. & K. Septoria speculariae B. &. C. 
Sphaerotheca phytoptophila Kell & Sw. Uredo quercus Brondeau. 
Ustilago zeae mays (DC.) Winter. 
ZOOLOGY. 
The Nervous Systems of Annelids and Verte- 
brates.— Mr. John Beard analyzes in a recent number of 
Nature the Annelidan features found in the development of 
the Vertebrate nervous system, and adds some points of his 
own. He claims that the spinal ganglia arise not from the 
neural ridges but from the adjacent ectoderm, and in such a 
manner as to justify their comparison with the parapodial gan- 
glia described by Kleinenberg in Lepadorhynchus. Again, 
the two halves of the neural plate are separated at an early 
stage by a median groove of ciliated epithelium, and therefore 
the nervous system is ontogenetically paired. This ciliated 
groove ultimately furnishes the epithelial lining of the neural 
