458 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE . 
ciently to permit the annual volumes to be bound. Heretofore these volumes 
have been represented by the annual appendices, which led to the current gibe 
that the Bulletin had. succumbed to appendicitis. The most curious illustration 
of “closing up ranks” is the volume for 1900, the body of which consists of 32 
pages, now issued as nos. 157-168, and which were necessary as a preface to 
the four appendices. 
Proressor W. A. KELLERMAN recently returned from his second collecting 
trip to Guatemala. On account of quarantine regulations (because of yellow 
fever) he was obliged to return three weeks before the time set. The part 
traversed the entire country from east to west and went up as far as Quetzal- 
tenango (alt. 2500™). Collections were made about Lake Amatitlan and also at 
the still more beautiful Lake Atitlan, and on the ascent of three volcanoes. Per- 
haps ten times as many species of parasitic fungi were gathered as in the same 
time last year, and the collections seem to contain many new species. 
Dr. F. Cavara reports as reasonably successful the attempts to establish 
an alpine garden on the slopes of Mt. Etna. It is located behind the Casa Can- 
toniera at an altitude of 1880™, the first cultures at 1440™ having failed on account 
of the heat and drought. About 150 species are now thoroughly established, 
and nearly 4oo more are more or less sucessfully grown. The garden is sur- 
rounded by a stone wall which mitigates the violence of the winds. _Cisterns and 
snow magazines (there are no streams) eke out the scanty supply of rain in the 
growing season, which in 1904 was 56™™ in May, June, July, and August. The 
director is to be congratulated on overcoming the many difficulties and solving 
so many of the problems which confront him in this undertaking. The garden 
has been christened Gussonea, in honor of “un valoroso studioso della flora 
sicula,” 
