DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 53 



FUNGI. ^ 



E. Bartholomew. Fungi Columbiana, Centuries XII and XIV 200 



ALGAE. 



F. S. Collins, Fascicles XXVIl, XXVIII 100 



Total additions for the year 1806 



GENERAL SUMMARY OF PLANTS IN THE HERBARIUM. 



Seed Plants, ferns and their allies 18,147 



Mosses and Liverworts 2,010 



Lichens 1,186 



Fungi 17,153 



Algae 2,220 



Grand total in Herbarium 103,716 



THE ARBORETUM. 



The plants continue to grow and afford many convient and important 

 illustrations for classes in forestry and botany, but there appears to be 

 no chance for further enlargement. It cannot be kept very tidy owing to 

 the great number of persons who make a wide path extending diagonally 

 across, scattering rubbish of various kinds and disfiguring and destroy- 

 ing the trees. The deer and elk have well nigh destroyed the trees that 

 were permitted in their yards. Owing to its location, the time must 

 doubtless come before many years, w^hen this area will be sought for 

 building or other purposes. Anticipating this change. Professor Bogue 

 has already begun a mixed plantation across the river east of the spur of 

 the Pere Marquette railway. 



QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 



Beginning in January of this year and continuing to the close of 

 June, at my request the stenographer has kept a list of questions an- 

 swered by the professor of botany. They number two hundred and 

 thirteen and I know others have been written by myself of Avhich she had 

 no account. Many of these questions were answered with little effort, 

 but some of them required each an investigation of an hour or two, and 

 not infrequently one to three pages were written by a typewriter. Eighty- 

 four rej)lies were made to in(]uiries concerning seeds or plants of weeds, 

 forage plants and the like. Among the other inquiries were the following: 



By sample of muck to determine whether it would i)ay to drain land ; 

 to review a book on Principles of Botany; to report on trouble with six 

 lots of diseased beans; regarding conditions for growing the common 

 locust; on growing basket willow; information regarding the orna- 

 mentation of school grounds ; asking for elementary science bulletin ; 

 names of grasses for a mixture for pasture; many inquiries concerning 

 the extermination of quack grass; how does the atmosphere supply 

 plants with nitrogen ; request information concerning soil inoculation for 

 legumes; how to obtain seedless fruits; how to recognize edible mush- 

 rooms from those poisonous; hoAV to grow^ golden seal; how to grow 



