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was published in the Bulletin from the Laboratories of 

 Natural History of the State University of Iowa. The paper 

 contains ninety-one pages of text and forty-one plates, the 

 text having been entirely revised and sixteen of the plates 



The monograph of the North American Hypocreales, 

 including two families, the Nectriaceae and the Hypoc- 

 reaceae, has been completed for North American Flora. 

 The manuscript of the Fimetariaceae (Sordariaceae) previ- 

 ously published by Dr. David Griffiths has also been worked 

 over and put in form for North American Flora. These 

 three families and the family Chaetomiaceae by Miss H. 

 L. Palliser have been published as volume three, part 

 one, of this work. Work has already been begun on the 

 groups of fungi to appear in the second part of the same 



With your permission, I left the city on August 15 for 

 a vacation and collecting trip through Colorado, returning 

 home on the evening of September 30. As a result of 

 this trip, a preliminary account of which appeared in the 

 Journal for November, nine hundred specimens of fungi 

 were added to the Garden collection. While only a small 

 part of this collection has been critically studied, this 

 study has revealed some undescribed species in the groups 

 with which I am most familiar. Also, several species were 

 collected at high altitudes in the Rocky Mountains which 

 were formerly known only from the eastern and north- 

 eastern parts of North America, while several were new to 

 North America and others were not represented in the 

 Garden collection. Further study will doubtless furnish 

 still other points of interest. Much time has been spent 

 in a preliminary study of this collection and in preparing 

 the specimens for mounting. 



I have also had the oversight of the mounting of speci- 

 mens, drawings, and notes in that part of the herbarium 

 which includes the ascomycetes and lower fungi. 



