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The evidence is also given that the peach is a native of China. 
This evidence was apparently clinched by Mr, Frank N. Meyer, 
agricultural explorer of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
who, in 1916, discovered the “real wild peach” growing in loess 
ravines near the village of Tchaoyu, China. The volume is uni- 
form with several preceding ones on the cherries, grapes, plums, 
apples, and other fruits that may be successfully grown in New 
York State. 
Cycads in Bloom.—In a valued gift of forty or fifty plants, 
presented by Mr. Harold I. Pratt on April 12, was a carpellate, 
or male, specimen of Cycas circinalis. During June this plant 
produced a beautiful cone of pollen-bearing carpels. The cone 
measured two feet in length from the tip to the stalk. , As may 
easily be seen from the illustrations (figs. 11 and 12), .the cone 
in this species of Cycad is terminal, not borne in the axil of a 
leaf. The pistillate, or female, cone of the species is likewise 
terminal. ‘This plenty is now (August 20) producing a new crown 
of leaves, 
In figure 13 is Shut one of the cycads (Macrozamia Lite: 
obtained in February, 1915, from Australia. This is a female 
plant, and shows that in this species the carpellate, or seed-bear- 
ing, cones are borne laterally in the axils of the leaves. Other 
illustrations of the cycads from Australia were shown in the 
Recorp for July, 1915. 
The Boston Mycological Club, having a membership of about 
140, has recently issued a printed announcement of its aims and 
activities, from which the following statements are quoted. “ This 
Club has for its object the study of mushrooms, for their scien- 
tific interest, for their beauty and for their attractive qualities as 
food. Through the summer and’ autumn the club. has an exhibi- 
tion of mushrooms once a week, at which a number of members 
come together to compare and identify their fresh collections. 
Fifty to a hundred different kinds are sometimes exhibited. The 
exhibitions are open to the public and offer an excellent oppor- 
tunity to begin an acquaintance with mushrooms. The Club has a 
large collection of dried mushrooms, which are sometimes ex- 
