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with their fleshy black glabrous covering, while the support- 
ang spike changes its early green color to that of bright 
scarlet. 
The common southern pS Sabal Palmetto, familiar to 
visitors from Florida, is bearing two large spikes heavily 
laden with jet-black seeds. 
The Chinese fan-palm, Livistona chinensis, twenty-five to 
thirty feet in height, is showing several spikes of greenish 
ellow flowers. The leaves of this palm are used extensively 
in the fan industry. 
Pritchardia pacifica, a less common variety, has huge fan- 
shaped leaves, the under side being covered with a thick 
white pubescence. The small golden-yellow flower spikes, 
with white overhanging bracts, are somewhat hidden by the 
massive leaves. 
NOTES 
Mr. T. G. Yuncker, of the University of Illinois, spent a 
week at the Garden recently, consulting the herbarium and 
library with reference to the genus Cuscuta. 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Floriculturist to the Garden, spoke on 
“Beautification of St. Louis” before the West End Busi- 
ness Men’s Association, at the Odeon, April 9. 
Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the Garden, gave 
a talk on “Gardening” at the Rose Fanning School, April 
18, and at the Pierre Laclede School, April 21. 
The March issue of the Journal of the International 
Garden Club contained the first of a series of articles on 
“Plant Curiosities” by Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist, 
and Mr. G. H. Pring, Floriculturist to the Garden. 
Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Director Botanical Research, 
Carnegie Institution, Desert Laboratory, Tueson, Arizona, 
visited the Garden, April-14, and spoke before the graduate 
seminar on “Investigations Relating to the Carbohydrate 
Mechanism of the Cell.” 
Among recent visitors to the Garden were Dr. C. Koid- 
mami, Professor in the Imperial Japanese Army Medical 
College and Major in the Japanese Medical Service, and Dr. 
Hiroshi Nomaura, Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the 
Tohoku_Imperial University, Sendai, Japan; March 27; 
Mr. K. Yamada, Agricultural Adviser to the Japanese Gov- 
ernment, March 28; Mr. M. R. Ensign, Assistant Pathologist, 
Agricultural Extension Work, University of Arkansas, 
