130 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
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IRC MPP UL. 6s xis.0 as 6 WHOLGU <laicees 6-12”..White.... April-May.Prefers a moist 
Waldsteinia fregar- situation. 
NON. 25 Sacek 6 bob a0 Barren straw- 
berry ...Creeping..Yellow..,.May...... Prefers dry 
shaded situations. 
This concludes the series on ‘‘Native Plants Suitable for 
Missouri and Adjoining States.’’ A series on ‘‘ Hardy Exotic 
Plants for Missouri and Adjoining States,’’ is in preparation 
for the 1921 issues of the BULLETIN. 
NOTES 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, has been 
elected president of the St. Louis Association of Gardeners. 
No. 2-3 of Vol. VII of the Annals of the Missouri Botanicai 
Garden containing the twelfth installment of the monograph 
on ‘‘The Thelephoraceae of North America,’’ by Dr. E. A. 
Burt, has recently been issued. 
The October issue of Parks and Recreation contains two 
articles by Mr. L. P. Jensen, Arboriculturist to the Garden, 
one entitled ‘‘Public Parks as Bird Protectorates,’’ and the 
other ‘‘The Influence of Parks on Civilization and Con- 
servation of Plant Life.’’ 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, spoke before 
Town and Gown, December 17, on ‘‘Some Old Herbals and 
the Doctrine of Signatures.’? Some of the rare volumes of 
herbals in the Garden’s unique collection were shown in con- 
nection with the lecture. 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, gave an 
illustrated lecture before the St. Louis Natural History 
Museum Association at the Central Public Library, Decem- 
ber 15, on ‘‘Native Mushrooms and Their Habitat,’’ and on 
December 16, he spoke before the St. Louis Garden Club on 
‘““ he History of a Mushroom Bed and Mushroom Produc- 
tion.’’ 
