MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 71 
to those familiar with the New England flora. Amon 
others, the collection embraces in quantity iris, cardina 
flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Lobelia syphilitica, Myrica, 
Caltha, Cimicifuga, Mertensia, Azalea nudiflora, and Kalmia 
angustifolia, besides numerous other species and a large num- 
ber of native ferns and an especially fine collection of cypri- 
pediums. 
Dr. E. A. Burt, Mycologist and Librarian to the Garden, 
_ has returned from the east, where he spent about six weeks 
in the study of fleshy fungi in the herbaria at Harvard Uni- 
versity and the New York State Museum at Albany. Besides 
making a careful study of many rare types of fungi, Dr. 
Burt arranged an exchange whereby the Garden herbarium 
comes into possession of about three hundred valuable speci- 
mens of fungi. 
An interesting hybrid slipper orchid, presented to the 
Garden by Mr. D. S. Brown, of Kirkwood, Mo., is bloom- 
ing, the flower spike, which is several. feet in height, bear- 
ing yellowish-brown flowers. This garden hybrid was raised 
by Mr. Brown from the parents Selenipedium calurum and 
< Sargentianum, and named by him *Balanipedicitn Brown- 
urst.” 
On April 29, the Committee for Grading Structural 
Timber, of the American Society for Testing Materials, held 
a meeting in the Museum building at the Garden. Dr. Her- 
mann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, is Chairman 
of the Committee. One of the features of the meeting was 
an extensive exhibit of the various species of southern pines. 
STATISTICAL INFORMATION FOR APRIL, 1914 
GARDEN ATTENDANCE: 
Total number of Vvisitork. ic os ae cw os a es ce 40,147 
PLANT ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of plants received in exchange............ 69 
Total number of packets of seeds received in exchange... .. 616 
PLanT DISTRIBUTION: 
Total number of plants distributed in exchange........... 2,895 
Lrpraky ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of books and pamphlets bought............- 26 
Total number of books and pamphlets donated.........-.. 35 
