1066 General Notes. L 
together, from time to time, for the reading and disc 
papers, the exchange of notes, etc., while no small part 
profit of the organization of the club was found in the social 
joyment which it provided. s 
r. Beal, of Lansing, was made chairman, and Professo 
ter, editor of the Botanical Gazette, secretary. T 
Proressor P, A. Saccarpo’s SYLLOGE Funcorum OMNI 
CUSQUE COGNITORUM.—The second volume of this work 
issued. It contains $13 pages besides 69 pages of addet 
ing the number of species up to 6180, which is supp 
include all the Pyrenomycetes thus far known. At th 
this volume is an alphabetical index of all the specific n 
the two volumes, the generic name being added in pares 
after each specific name. a 
atever may be thought of the many new genera into 
the old genus Sphæria is here divided, there can be but one 
ion as to the practical value of the work, which should be 
hands of every student of mycology. The third vol 
bracing the lower orders of fungi, 2. e., Sphæropsideæ, 
nieæ and Hyphomycetez, will be ready some time in se 
F. B. Ellis, Newfield, N. F. a 
BENTHAM AND Hooxer’s Genera PLAnTaruM.—Eve 
thus giving us a manual of the genera an 
gamia. Volume t bears the dates of 1862 and 
and 11 respectively; for Vol. 11 the dates are 187 
while for Vol. 111 they are 1880 and 1883. The 
been under way for more than twenty years. 
as furnishing, for the first time in many years, a Gemi 
ment of these plants. Seven “ series,” apparently 
lent to the “cohorts” of Vols. 1 and 11, include 
orders, These, with the orders they include, are as 
Series I. Microsperma.—Hydrocharidex, Burmanniacee, Orchiden, 
A 
Series II. Ericyn#.—Scitaminew, Bromeliacee, Hæmodorace®, 
lideæ, Taccaceæ, Dioscoreacewæ. Gp tae 
