278 General Notes. 
paratus and the very large increase in the amount of literature on 
_ the subject within the last twelve years made a second edition of 
this indispensable book almost imperative. The new edition 
contains, in addition to a large amount of new matter in the gen- 
eral and special parts, a Newton’s scale of prismatic colors (to which 
reference is made in describing the polarization colors of the 
_ different minerals), a practically complete table of petrographical 
literature and twenty-six photographic plates of mineral and roc 
sections. Kalkowsky’s “ Elemente der Lithologie "1 is a little 
treatise of three hundred and sixteen pages, in which the study 
of rocks is treated as a branch of general geology and not as an 
appendix to mineralogy. It is intended primarily as an introduc- 
considerable atten- 
; author places the gabbros and peridotites. ; 
‘ what peculiar views expressed on certain subjects, the book will 
of prove a valuable addition to the library of the lithologist, and a 
== great aid to the student who wishes to study rocks from 4 
. geological standpoint. 
* 
BOTANY.’ 
roo THE ADVENTITIOUS INFLORESCENCE OF CUSCUTA GLOMERATA 
n KNOWN TO THE GERMANS.—At the Philadelphia meeting of the 
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 
writer presented a short paper, calling attention to the adventi- 
tious inflorescence of Cuscuta glomerata. The fact was suppose 
to be new to science, as it certainly was to the writer, and, more” 
over, appeared to be to the botanists of the meeting. Additional 
facts were presented to the Ann Arbor meeting of the Association, 
and in the discussion the originality of the discovery was 
- questioned and apparently not doubted by any one. : 
_. Imagine my chagrin a few days ago (Dec. 30, 1885), whet ee 
a running over the text of Dodel-Port’s Anatomisch-physiologis¢ - 
_ Atlas der Botanik, I found the whole matter fully and accurately 
_ described. This atlas was published from 1878 to 1883, in Es- 
slingen. The study of Cuscuta glomerata was made in the Bo- 
tanic Gardens of Zurich, where for ‘ten years or more it 
~ come acclimatized. 
page 4 of part xxx, of the text to the atlas, Dr. Dodel-Port, 
~ after describing the normal branching, remarks in substance as 
-l Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1886. 
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