Tur DEATH oF GEORGE BENTHAM.—This eminen 
, TE — t man, wh 
pe : familiar to every botanist, died on the roth of Gaaah 
x is home in London, England, at the advanced age of eighty- 
an per He was born at Plymouth, September 22, 1800. the 
4 pm 1814 to 1826 were spent in southern France, a result 
~ os Shs his first botanical publication, a Catalogue of 
oe 3 igenous to the Pyrenees and Bas Languedoc, issued in 
Kon, 7 1854 his great herbarium and library were given to 
Be th here he worked assiduously upon genera and orders of 
riage e results of which appeared from time to time in the 
eis te monographs. The greatest work of his life 
Sted js upon the Genera Plantarum, began in 1862 and com- 
pity 1883, the joint product of Mr. Bentham and Sir Joseph 
i ete or Appress.—The editor of this department 
oe accepted the chair of botany and horticulture in the Uni- 
ra 4 = Nebraska, should hereafter be addressed at Lincoln, 
a. l 
; esa ical. Nores.—Dr. Vasey has again placed the botanists 
ek : Seale! under obligations to him by bringing out a thick 
nN phlet entitled The Agricultural Grasses of the United States. 
lpia’ notice will be given of it in the future, but we must stop 
s enough to commend this as a sample of the kind of publi- 
TARR which are creditable to the department of agriculture. 
abl rtunately many of its publications have 
ae bers of the Gardener's Chronicle Thos. 
Meehan publishes a valuable article on the fertility of hybrids, 
date. 
—In the same journal for September 27, W. S; Smith gives an 
izophyllum com- 
bac , W. G 
Ete of the growth of the little fungus Sch. 
om af upon the cut edge of ensilage in a silo. This is surely an` 
Place for it to grow, but it sounds oddly to learn that “ the 
in the tropics, rarely spreading into tem- 
“ed September Torrey Bulletin contains a paper by 
, Siving the known localities of Corema conradi, from which itap- 
i Pears that it occurs upon the (1) New Jersey pine barrens, 
mouth, Mass., (4) Bath, Me., (5) Isle au 
cotia and Newfoundland, (7) St 
e same number is a convenien 
nclature as they occurred 
| th Gray’ 1 ue 
| y’s Synoptical Flora, Vol. 1 part 1. There 
red - not follow that “ about one-fourth of 
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