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secured several hundred. Special arrangements are being made to study this 
family thoroughly, both in living and preserved material. 
me giant bamboos in the palm-house in the past season grew 65 feet (20™) 
in ninety-five days, an average of about 21°™ per day. 
ROM advance sheets of the seventeenth annual report of the Missouri Botani- 
cal Garden, we learn what extraordinary burdens the SHAw bequest has been 
carrying these sixteen years in the way of taxes, general and special, and real 
estate and street improvements. This has unhappily delayed the design of 
Director TRELEASE for development of the Garden as a research center, making 
impossible the prompt execution of the plan to maintain a staff of specialists and 
furnish them facilities for work. If the city and state were as just as Mr. SHAW 
was generous they would relieve the Garden of taxes at least, since it exists 
solely for the public good. Notwithstanding these unexampled inroads upon its 
income the institution has not stood still; the garden has not only been main- 
tained but greatly improved; a fine library and herbarium has been ‘accumulated, 
and notable researches have been published annually. The grounds now embrace 
65 acres, the plant houses cover 30,000 square feet, the cultivated plants number 
16,000 species, noteworthy groups being the cacti (678 sp.}, bromeliads (204 sp.), 
and orchids (942 sp.). The library isnow undoubtedly the best botanical library 
in the United States, and the herbarium contains over half a million specimens. 
We congratulate the Director and Trustees on the wise administration of their 
trust in the face of serious difficulties and discouragements. 
THE American Mycological Society held its third annual meeting in connec- 
tion with the American Association for the Advancement of Science at New 
Orleans, January 1, 1906. In the absence of the president, CHartes H. PEcK, 
the vice-president, F. S. EarLe, preside e new constitution recommended 
by the joint committee of the Botanical Society of America, the Society for Plant 
Morphology and Physiology, and the American Mycological Society, as a basis - 
for the union of the three societies, was adopted and the present officers 
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reasons for desiring a better classification of the Uredinales; S. M. TRACY, 
Uredineae of the Gulf States; W. G. FArtow, Some peculiar fungi new to 
America; F.S. Earte, North American gill fungi; Bruce Finx (by title), 
Lichens and recent conceptions of species; E. M. FREEMAN, The affinities of the 
fungus of Lolium temulentum; C. L. SaEar, Peridermium cerebrum Peck, and 
A Nps Quercuum (Berkeley); C. L. Sear, Romularia: An illustration of 
the present practice in mycological nomenclature; P H. Roirs, Notes om 
cultures of Collelotrichum ‘and Gloeosporium; P. SPAULDING, The occurrence of 
Fusoma parasiticum Tubeuf in this country; P. H. Rotrs, Notes on tes 
cocos; P. H. Roirs, Penicillium glaucum on pineapple fruit. —C. L. SHE 
