EDITORIAL 



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Dr. Gleason's article on "Resting Plants," in this issue, 

 touches upon a subject that his been but little investigated, but 

 which should yield some interesting results to the student who 

 will take it up. It is to be hoped that all who have other in- 

 stances of this kind will send them to Dr. Gleason. In refer- 

 ence to the blooming of squirrel corn in the region in which 

 this magazine is published, it may be said that while we have 

 not particularly noted its abundance in previous years, the 

 spring of 1908 was remarkable for its profuse blooming. The 

 editor has seen acres of ground that were literally white with 

 its graceful flowers. With us it is often called white bleeding 

 heart. 



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When in 1902. the Lloyd Brothers of Cincinati erected in 

 that city a four story building of brick and stone for the hous- 

 ing of their immense collections of books and botanical speci- 

 mens, the fact was hailed as an example of a most unusual in- 

 terest in science by men of wealth. The Lloyds, however, were 

 not building for the public but having completed the structure, 

 continued to add to the collections installed in it. Soon this 

 large building became crowded and last winter another four 

 story structure was completed. In this second building the 

 books on Botany, Pharmacy and Medicine will be housed while 

 the first one will continue to accomodate the vast collections 

 of fungi. Some idea of the importance of these two buildings 

 and their contents may be had when it is known that in the 

 library building there is more than two miles of shelving for 

 books and nearly twenty-five thousand volumes in place. About 

 a hundred thousand volumes can be sheltered here. 

 The nuiseum building has thirty thousand specimens 

 of flowering plants, but 'ts chief glory is its collect- 



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