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Psilotum triquetrum. Lycopodiaceae. Tropics. ee 
Pteris cretica var. albo-lineata. Polypodiaceae. Tropical regions. 
Pteris cretica var. Wilsonii. Polypodiaceae. Tropical regions. 
Pteris longifolia, Polypodiaceae. Tropical regions. 
Pteris serrulata. Polypodiaceae. China and Japan. 
Rhynchosia phaseoloides.. Leguminosae. Panama, Brazil, and West 
Indies, 
Selaginella cuspidata var. Emmeliana. Selaginellaceae. Cuba and 
Mexico. 
Selaginella Martensii var. variegata. Selaginellaceae. Mexico. 
Solandra guttata. Solanaceae. North America. 
Stigmaphyllon ciliatum. Malpighiaceae. Tropical America. 
Vitis nitens. Vitaceae. North America. 
Woodwardia radicans. Polypodiaceae. California and Mexico. 
NOTES 
Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, Pathologist to the Garden, 
has been elected president of the St. Louis Garden Club. 
Mr. Lewis H. Weld, of Northwestern University, recently 
consulted the herbarium in connection with his studies on 
insect galls of oaks. 
Miss Anne W. Davis, Bryn Mawr, 1917, has been ap- 
pointed research assistant to succeed Dr. G. W. Freiberg, 
who is now in France. 
On November 13, Dr. Hermann von Schrenk Pathologist 
to the Garden, addressed the Kirkwood Mon ay Evening 
Club on “My Summer in the Garden.” ; 
Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the Garden, gave 
a talk on “The Storage of Vegetables” before the Household 
Soy Club of Belleville, at the Carnegie Library, Octo- 
r 26. 
__Mr. George H. Pring, in charge of conservatories, gave an. 
illustrated lecture before the St. Louis Gardeners’ / ia- 
tion, November 22, on “The Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
England.” 
Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the Garden, has 
been righ Sy she chairman of the special premiums committee 
ational 
of the Flower Show to be held in St. Louis, April 
5-16, 1918. 
Mr. J. J. Schilthuis, of the Vereenigde Indische Ex- 
ploitatie Maatschappijen, of Amsterdam, visited the Garden 
November 9. Mr. Schilthuis is to have charge of a labora- 
tory for the investigation of tropical woods in Java and is 
now on his way to the East Indies. : 
