282 General Notes. [ March, 
_ BoranicaL News.—The “Laboratory number” (Dec.) of the 
Botanical Gazette is one of the most valuable issued during the 
past year. The special laboratory topics are, Some botanical 
laboratories of the United States; Laboratory appliances ; The 
~ — - laboratory at Strasburg ; Laboratory courses of instruction; Sec- 
tion cutting, besides a dozen or so general notes devoted to some 
_ phase of the subject. A late number of Fora contains a paper 
on the infloresence of Typha, by Celakoosky. No. 141 of the 
Journal of the Linnean Society contains: (1) Contributions to the 
Flora of the Peruvian Andes, with remarks on the history and origin 
ofthe Andean Flora, by John Ball; (2) Contributions to South-Afri- 
can botany, by H. Bolus and N. E. Brown; (3) A contribution to 
the study of the relative effects of different parts of the solar spec- 
trum on the transpiration of plants, by George Henslow. e 
‘December Torrey Bulletin contains the summary of another year’s 
= Work upon the fresh-water Algz of the United States, by Francis 
cag Wolle. ‘Several new species are described, viz: Ectocarpus rivu- 
a laris (Florida), Cdogonium cataractum (Florida), Dictyospher- 
P tum hitchcockii (N. J.), Zygnema purpurea (N. J. and Fla.), Meso- 
~ carpus crassus (Fla.), Staurastrum tokopekatigense (Fla.), besides a 
number of varieties. A plate of Desmids accompanies the paper. 
The Gardeners’ Monthly, while not professing to be a botani- 
cal journal, contains much of value and interest to the botanist. 
we are doing a good service when we call attention to John 
Wheidon’s botanical catalogues (58 Great Queen street, London, 
iC Eng, 
Journal of Botany, just closed, enumerates an unusually great 
features of the past few months has been the attention given in sO 
many journals to notices of Dr. Gray. The latest of these which 
we have is a neat paper- reprinted from the Sun newspaper O 
- Jan. 3, and entitled “Asa Gray.” It is from the hand of Professor 
C. S. Sargent, and gives a summary of the life and labors of the 
eminent botanist. Very like the foregoing is the paper in the 
January Botanical Gazette, by Professor C. R. Barnes. In this 
_ paper, however, we have more of the personal history, It is ac- 
_ companied by a fine heliotype. 
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