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One of the tendrils of the main stem failing to find other support had, 
as it appears, wound itself around a higher internode upon the same 
shoot and, after making one complete revolution had turned sharply 
around enclosing itself in a loop and then encircled the stem in the 
opposite direction. The knot-like loop, thus formed, was evidently 
so tight that further enlargement of the stem at this point was stopped. 
Growth of the adjacent parts, however, continued both above and 
below giving rise to a deep constriction in which the tendril was 
buried. This must have occurred during the growing season of 19oc. 
In the spring of 190r the part of the stem below the tendril put out 
leaves as usual, but the part above failed to develop its foliage and 
although still slightly green beneath the outer cortex showed unmis- 
takable signs of death and decay. An examination of several other 
plants of Virginia Creeper indicates that the tendrils not rarely 
attach themselves to the stem that bears them but without injuring it. 
In the case particularly described the suicidal result was doubtless 
due to an unusually tight knot formed by the tendril. The fact that 
the stem continued to grow above the stricture and only died as win- 
ter came on shows the case to be analogous to the death of a shoot 
by girdling.— B. L. RosiNsoN, Gray Herbarium. 
THE HERBARIA OF NEW ENGLAND. 
Manv A. Dav. 
(Continued from page 222.) 
Frost, Charles Christopher. — Mr. Frost's herbarium is now 
stored in the Brook's Library, Brattleboro, Vermont, and is under 
control of the library authorities. It consists largely of a set of 
lichens, a set of Lesquereux' mosses (several hundred numbers in 
the original fascicles), and an unmounted set of fleshy fungi (usually 
only rough dried) in pasteboard boxes. Most of the labels accom- 
panying the fungi give only the name of the genus and species, but 
no data regarding the locality, date, or collector. This part of the 
collection is now in the basement of the library and is not accessible 
for study. The lichens are in cases in the main library room and 
can be seen by visitors. 
Fuller, Timothy Otis, NeepHam, Mass. In 1882 Mr. Fuller 
