
824 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [Vor. XXXVI. 
Livraison 2 of the current volume of the Bulletin du Jardin impé- 
riale de St.-Pétersbourg contains a portrait of the late Dr. J. Klinge. 
In the double number (149-150) of the Bulletin de /Mcadémie 
Internationale de Géographie Botanique is published an excellent 
portrait of the veteran Chilian botanist, R. A. Philippi, accompanied 
by a list of his publications, numbering two hundred and twenty-six 
entries. 
A short biographical sketch of Schweinitz, with portrait, is pub- 
lished by Mr. Shear in the Plant World for March. 
Vol II of Radde's Die Sammlungen des kaukasischen Museums, 
published in Tiflis, contains twelve portraits and a considerable 
number of plates and maps. 
Lamarck's herbarium forms the subject of an article by Bonnet 
in the Journal de botanique for April. 
Dr. Harshberger has an article on the botanical gardens of Jamaica, 
in the Plant World for March.. 
Vegetable pathology, and the method of teaching it as practiced 
in St. Louis, are discussed by Dr. von Schrenk, of the Shaw School 
of Botany, in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for February. 
. Professor Marshall-Ward considers predisposition and immunity, 
in plant diseases, in Vol. XI, Part V, of the Proceedings of the 
Cambridge Philosophical Society. 
In the labels for his exsiccate of Ohio fungi, reprinted in current 
numbers of the Oio Naturalist, Professor Kellerman gives tran- 
scripts of the original descriptions of the species. 
Kellerman and Jennings, in the Ohio Naturalist for April, give 
details of experiments to test the comparative susceptibility of maize 
and sorghum to Cintractia when taken from different hosts. 
— Fusarium Lini and the “ flax-wilt” that it causes are the subject of 
Bulletin No. 50 of the North Dakota Experiment Station. 
Papers on fungi, by Peck, Salmon, and Long, are published in the 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for Februa ry. 
The ascomycetous genera Urnula and Geopyxis are considered by 
Miss Kupfer in the Buletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for March. 
Current numbers of Zorreya contain keys to the species of a 
number of genera of agarics, by Earle. 
The Botanical Gazette for July contains the following articles: 
Arthur, * Uredinez occurring upon Phragmites, Spartina, and Arun- 
dinaria in America”; Nelson, “Contributions from the Rocky 
