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1886, |. Botany. 459 . 
The centuries before us are largely devoted to the Spheriaceze 
and the so-called “imperfect fungi.” The genus Cercospora is 
represented in Cent. xvi by twenty-five species, many of which 
have been but recently described. Septoria is represented in 
Cent. xvir by sixteen species, Spherella by eleven. 
We trust that this important work, which must be largely a 
labor of love, will go on to the completion of the second series, 
so happily begun. 
Botanica, News.—From the Transactions of the Institute of 
Natural Science of Nova Scotia we have a paper on the Canadian 
Species of the genus Melilotus, by Professor George Lawson. 
——The eleventh annual report of the American Postal. Micro- 
scopical Club contains a couple of pages of suggestive botanical 
notes from the “note-books ” of the club. Superposed buds 
are discussed by Aug. F. Foerste in a late number of the Bulle- 
tin of laboratories of Denison University. The paper is accom- 
panied by a plate. Dr. Farlow’s paper on Biological teaching 
in colleges, published in the March number of the Popular Sci- 
ence Monthly, will be read with interest by every teacher of the 
“laboratory method” in botany——The March 3ournal of My- 
cology contains descriptions of the species of Phyllosticta, Clavi- 
ceps and Cordyceps, and also a sketch of the life and labors of the 
tanist Schweinitz, the latter accompanied with a portrait. 
The March number of Grevillea is accompanied by pp. 113 to 
128 of the new edition of Cook’s Hand-book of British F ungi. 
Thus far the descriptions include 456 species, all of the genus 
te numbers of Hora contain an important paper, 
ps t Torfmoose, by Dr. Röll of Darmstadt. The 
collective species,” with their numerous varieties and forms, are 
D. H. Cam 
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pbell describes the development of the root in Bo- 
