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Connecticut which forms in great part the basis of his catologues of 
the state flora. 
Bissell, Charles Humphrey, SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT. — 
Mr. Bissell’s herbarium, collected during the last ten years, consists 
of about 6000 specimens of phaenogams and ferns, the larger part 
being from New England. The flora of Connecticut is very fully 
represented and an effort has been made to show the distribution 
of the plants in the state. It is especially strong in the Ladiatae 
and Cyperaceae. 
Blake, Joseph, see University of Maine. 
Bolles, William P., see Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. 
Boott, William, see Harvard University, Gray Herbarium. 
Boston Mycological Club, Mr. HoLLIS WEBSTER, CORRE- 
SPONDING SECRETARY, CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—This Club was organized 
in 1895 and soon began a collection, but for two years little was ac- 
complished. During the last three years, however, large additions 
have been made by active members of the Club and these increase 
more rapidly than, with the present resources, they can be organized. 
The botanical range of the herbarium is at present nearly confined 
to the Hymenomycetes, Gastromycetes, and Discomycetes. It is the 
intention of the Club to make its collection represent the fungus-flora 
of all New England so far as the groups above mentioned are con- 
cerned. At present, however, the collections are chiefly from eastern 
Massachusetts. The herbarium is now located in the rooms of the 
Cambridge Botanical Supply Company, 1286 Massachusetts Avenue, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Boston Society of Natural History, BosroN, Massacuu- 
SETTS.— The herbarium of this Society is in charge of Miss M. E. 
Carter, Curator. In the general collection of plants are about 
40000 specimens of both phaenogams and cryptogams from all parts 
of the world. The herbarium of Benjamin D. Greene formed the 
nucleus; among other collections here are Texano-Mexican plants 
of Charles Wright (collections of 1849, 1852) and of Ferdinand 
Lindheimer; A. Fendlers plants of New Mexico and Venezuela ; 
Charles W. Short's plants of Kentucky ; H. N. Bolander's Califor- 
nian plants; an admirable suite of the plants secured on the Sir 
John Franklin Arctic Expedition; also miscellaneous plants from 
H. P. Sartwell, John Carey, A. W. Chapman and Chester Dewey. 
The New England herbarium contains about 7000 sheets of both 
