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ie maturity at the New York Botanical Garden were unsuccess- 
mpkin 
The present-day Seminole Indians are aceuaiited with the 
wild pumpkin, but oe a information that can be gathered 
from them in regard to its past este is that it got there ae 
like the shrubs and rene on has always been ther lw: 
of course, in this case means as fe back as the falividual Indian 
remembers 
Joun K. SMALL. 
THE COLLINS COLLECTION OF ALGAE 
The Collins collection of seaweeds and their freshwater rel- 
atives was acquired for the herbarium of the New York Botanical 
Garden early in the ne year through the personal generosity 
of Director-in- Chief Bri The collection includes about 41,- 
already represented in the Garden herbarium, were not includ- 
d in the Se 
ank S. Collins: of Malden and later of North Eastham 
ough 
botany oad he was associated with the late Lorin L. Dame in 
