974 General Notes. (September, 4 
trichium micromeris Gr., Poa nevadensis Vasey, elongata Vasey, 
Stipa stricta Vasey, Festuca jonesii Vasey, two other grasses and 
three ar four other phanerogams, as well as half a dozen species — 
of new fungi. Some half dozen species are not yet named be — 
side. Plants belonging to the same collection as new species, are 
Breweria minima Gr., Draba unilateralis Jones, Rosa minutifolia 
Eng., Rides viburnifolium Gr., Æsculus parryi Gr., etc.—Marcus E. 
Jones, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2 
BoranicaL Nores.—The June Journal of Botany contains 4 
photograph, with a sketch of the life and labors of the late 
George Stacy Gibson, F.L.S., a local English botanist of consid: 
erable reputation. In the same journal H. F. Hance describes 
a new species of Podophyllum, P. p/eanthum, from the Island of 
Formosa. This makes the third species of this genus; the oldest 
is the familiar May apple of our woods, P. peltatum Linn., the - 
second is P. emodi Wall. Both these have solitary white flowers. 
hang in a pendulous group from the fork of the stem-leaves—— 
Dr. Cooke, in the June Grevillea, enters a most emphatic protest 
against the radical changes in specific names which the ney 
views as to the real nature of the Uredineæ have brought 1% — 
certain quarters. He has our hearty sympathy. We do not like, 
for example, to give up Puccinia compositarum for P. flosculosorum 
simply because Albertini and Schweinitz happened to name one : 
of its stages Uredo flosculosorum. We wish the editor of Gre 
villea all success in his war upon this ultra stickling for sie 
plication of the letter (not the spirit) of the law of priority.” 
We have received Arthur Meyer’s brochure, Das Chlorophy? s 
korn in Chemischer, Morphologischer und Biologischer Bezie- 
hung (Arthur Felix, Leipzig). It contains ninety-on€ eee 
pages of text and three fine lithographic plates. We h Mi 
able to notice it in full before long. In the bulletin of the #1 
Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. x1, Mr. J. C. Arthur publishes “Descr 
of Iowa Uromyces.” As stated in the preface, “It is an 3" 
from the specimens, and in so far as possible all OF 
(ecidium, uredo, and teleutospore) are described ie 3 
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hoped other students of the lower plants will imitate — 7 
Foerste in the June Botanical Gazette describes an enor 
son ivy (Rhus toxicodendron) found near Dayton, Ohio, § 
measured some distance from the base seventeen inches igit 
cumference. Its first branch was fourteen and a half inches i 
circumference, and another was abòut twelve inches.—— 
Houghton Farm Experiment Station Professor Penhallo¥ 
