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The Alabama Experiment Station has published a list of the 

 Fungi of Alabama, as its Bulletin No. 80, compiled by Professor 

 Underwood and Mr. F. S. Earle. Eleven hundred species are 

 enumerated. But little has hitherto been known of the fungous 

 flora of that region, and the list will be welcomed by mycologists, 

 especially as it appears to be decidedly up to date, and contains 

 much bibliographical and analytical matter. 



Mr. F. V. CoviLLE has been investigating the wanderings of 

 John Jeffrey, explorer of the Oregon Botanical Association of 

 Edinburgh. The results of his researches among various rare 

 papers and files of private letters are published in the Proceedings 

 of the Biological Society of Washington (xi, 57-60) under the title 

 "The Itinerary of John Jeffrey, an early botanical explorer of 

 western North America." Jeffrey sailed from London in 1850 for 

 Hudson Bay and crossed the Rocky Mountains at Athabasca Pass 

 between Mount Brown and Mount Hooker. The winter of 1851-52 

 he spent on Vancouver Island. From about August 1 to Novem- 

 ber 1, 1852, he engaged in an expedition to the valleys of the 

 Umpqua, Klamath, Trinity and Rogue Rivers, Siskiyou Mountains 

 and Mount Shasta. In the next year (1853) he proceeded again 

 southwards, collecting in the Umpqua Valley, Mount Shasta, 

 Applegate River, Scott Mountains and the Coast Range, on the 

 Sierra Nevada in latitude 38°, in the Sacramento Valley and the 

 American fork of the Sacramento, and at San Francisco Bay. 

 From San Francisco Jeffrey went to San Diego and thence to Yuma. 

 It is conjectured that he was lost on the Colorado Desert, as nothing 

 more was ever heard of him. He collected Pinvs Jeffreyi and other 

 rare plants. 



