118 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



ferent kinds of fungi, many of them disease germs that had 

 been taken into the alimentary canal with the fly's food and 

 had not been injured by the digestive process. Flies are well- 

 known to carry numerous germs on their feet and bodies, but 

 now the very fly-specks are shown to be dangerous. There 

 are few wild beasts that are as dangerous as flies. 



The Home of Linnaeus. — Although Carl von Linne 

 (Linnaeus) died more than a hundred years ago, his country 

 residence still stands just as he left it with the same furniture, 

 the same pictures on the walls and even the clothing he wore 

 hanging in the closet. It is five or six miles from LTpsala and 

 is open to the public. Mycological Notes for August publishes 

 a picture of the place reproduced from a souvenir post-card. 

 The house is a long two-story structure of no particular archi- 

 tectural beauty fronting a park-like garden of some extent. 

 Back of the house is a small woodland in which Linnaeus 

 built his museum. This was a building about 13 feet square 

 and at present contains his library, herbarium case and cases 

 for other specimens. The specimens, however, are in the 

 rooms of the Linnaean Societv of London. 



