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of the Galapagos Islands have been published, the only reference to 

 a Riccia occurs in Dr. B. L. Robinson's "Flora of the Galapagos 

 Islands" in which Professor Alexander W. Evans mentions a spec- 

 imen from Chatham Island as "sterile and indeterminable." In the 

 material collected by Mr. Howell, three species are represented. 

 Two, closely allied to West Indian species but distinguishable, are 

 being proposed as new. One of them, somewhat variable, is 

 represented by eleven specimens from five islands: the other is 

 based on a single collection on Chatham Island. A few specimens 

 of Anthocerotaceae from the Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island 

 and species of Riccia collected by the Templeton Crocker Expedi- 

 tion in Costa Rica and Lower California and outlying islands were 

 also discussed. 



Under the title of "Mycological Notes," Dr. Fred J. Seaver di- 

 rected attention to a number of interesting fungi which have re- 

 cently come to hand. Among these was a rare phalloid, Anthurus 

 borealis, collected by Dr. A. B. Stout in a spent hot frame in the 

 Botanical Garden, a species described by Dr. E. A. Burt in 1894. 

 While it has been collected occasionally in the eastern United 

 States, it belongs to a genus which is essentially tropical. There is 

 only one other record of its having been collected in The New York- 

 Botanical Garden. In October, 1919, Mr. Kenneth R. Boynton 

 made a collection of this species in a gladiolus bed as noted by Dr. 

 Murrill in Mycologia for 1920. 



This was contrasted with another rare phalloid, Coins javanicus, 

 which was collected over several seasons in a limited area in The 

 New York Botanical Garden and is known from only one other 

 locality in continental North America. An account of this was 

 published in Mycologia (23: 83. 1931)- While it is recognized 

 that many of the fungi are cosmopolitan in the same latitude 

 throughout the world, the tropical species are thought to be rather 

 exclusive. The occurrence of two supposedly tropical forms in 

 The New York Botanical Garden is therefore of unusual interest. 



Dr. Seaver devoted most of his time to a review of his work on 

 North American cup-fungi, directing attention to a number of in- 

 teresting forms and additional information on recorded forms 

 which lias been accumulated since the publication of his first vol- 



