1883. | Botany. 659 
SIMILARITY OF PLANT AND ANIMAL CeLts.—In a paper on plant 
cells and living matter, by Dr. L. Elsberg, in the Quarterly Four- 
nal of Microscopical Science for January, the author concludes 
that the frame of cellulose, analogously to the cement substance 
of animal epithelia and the basis substance of other animal tis- 
sues, is pierced by either single filaments of living matter ora 
reticulum with more or less large accumulations of living matter, 
interconnecting all neighboring tissue elements, and that the 
plant, therefore, like the animal, is one continuous mass of living 
matter, with interspaces which contain some non-living material, 
BotantcaL Notes.—A. P. Morgan publishes, in the Journal of 
the Cincinnati Society of Natural History (April, 1883) a valua- 
ble paper on “ The Mycologic Flora of the Miami valley, Ohio.” 
Descriptions are given of eighty species of white spored Agarics 
found in the region designated. Among these are five new spe- 
cies, viz., Agaricus miamensis, A. granosus, A. monadelphus, A. 
estensis, and A. alboflavus, all of which are excellently illustrated 
by large lithographic plates. A second paper is promised which 
will treat in a similar manner the remaining Agaricini. Dr. C. 
S. Dolley, of Rochester, N. Y., has again deserved the thanks of 
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from the pen of Mr. G. E. Davenport, whose name is a sufficient 
guarantee of the excellence of the work. He has just published 
€ comparative tables showing the distribution of ferns in 
the United States,” as preliminary to his promised book, One 
hundred and fifty-five species are enumerated, and their geo- 
oF ue, Fowl Cholera and Southern Cattle Fever,” in the Report 
the Department of Agriculture at Washington, for the year 
nM 1881~2.—_In the same report Dr. Vasey has a paper on grasses 
i Th. other forage plants, illustrated by twenty-five full-page plates. 
es ese annual papers by Dr. Vasey have long given much value 
a ‘the Department reports. The March Torrey Bulletin con- 
pohong other interesting notes, one by Dr. Vasey on “Three 
aa at ks,” with three plates; “ New and little-known Ferns 
A U. S.,” by Professor Eaton, and “A list of Western 
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