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graph to the mosses and liverworts (Bryophyta), and another to 
the ferns and their allies (Pteridophyta); with four pages to the 
seed-bearing plants (Phanerogamia). Forestry Bulletin, No. 18, 
gives the fuel values of fifty-five of the more important woods of 
the United States. The first five on the list are (1) Cercocarpus 
ledifolius, (2) Pinus australis, (3) Carya alba, (4) Quercus prinos, 
(5) Pinus rigida. restry Bulletins, 19, 20 and 21, contain 
maps showing the forest areas of California, Oregon and Wash- 
ington Territory. Ot the latter the remark is made that “ west 
of the Cascade mountains it is covered by the heaviest contin- 
uous belt of forest growth in the United States.” Of this the 
“red or yellow fir” (Pseudotsuga douglasii) known in the East as the 
Douglas spruce, forms “ about seven-eighths of the forest growth.” 
——Henry Trimen in the Dec. number of the Journal of Botany 
announces his withdrawal from that periodical, declining “ to 
risk any further loss,” James Britten, the well-known editor, has 
bravely “determined to carry on the journal” at his own risk 
“for at least another year,” and appeals to its friends for aid in 
obtaining additional subscribers. Cannot American botanists do 
somewhat towards aiding Mr. Britten in his laudable attempt to 
keep alive this old and valuable journal. Subscriptions (twelve 
shillings) should be sent to the publishers, West, Newman & Co., 
54 Hatton Garden, London, E. C., England. In contrast with 
the foregoing, it is gratifying to note the steady growth of the 
Botanical Gazette, now entered upon its eighth year, enlarged 
cess of his undertaking. The addition of Professor C. R. 
Barnes and Mr. J. C. Arthur to the editorial force will doubtless 
enable the Gazette to make still further improvement. Davis 
L. James has republished in the Jour. Cinn. Soc. Nat. Hist., the 
descriptions of new species of Fungi collected in the vicinity of 
Cincinnati, by Thomas G. Lea, and described by Rev. M. J. Berke- 
ley. The original, published in 1849, has long been so rare as to 
be Practically inaccessible to all but a very few students. Descrip- 
tions are given of fifty-three species; of these twenty-three are 
as having been described also in Hooker's Four. Bot., Vol. 
V.——Dr. Goodale, of Harvard University, has recently imported 
a Sermany a large quantity of apparatus for making experi- 
ments and investigations in vegetable physiology. A new labora- 
tory for physiological work is to be erected just back of the pres- 
Ent row of buildings at the Botanic Gardens. 
i ENTOMOLOGY.! 
one FOOD RELATIONS OF THE CARABIDE AND COCCINELLIDE.— 
ine li or S. A. Forbes, State entomologist of Illinois, has just 
i mR a valuable paper entitled, “ The food relations of the 
department is edited by Professor C. V. RILey, Washington, D. C., to whom 
Communications, books for notice, etc., should be sent. 
