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New England to the mountains of North Carolina and west to 
Iowa, but Miss Hodges’s collection is the first we have received 
from the state of Pennsylvania. 
num americanum, the only member of the genus found in 
illustrated in colors in Addisonia, plate 11 (vol. I, no. 2) 
A species of Clivia, the Imantophyllum of gardeners, from Cape 
Colony began to bleoom about January. 20. This plant, C. 
nobilis, bears large clusters of tubular, yellowish green flowers, 
and strap-like, ‘evergreen leaves. The flowers are delicate in 
coloring and are pendulous, while those of C. miniata, aoa 
well-known eae aes plant, are brighter colored and erec 
Mr. J. E. Fries, of Birmingham, Alabama, called at the Garden 
anuary 21 with a handsome specimen of the parasitic gill- 
‘a ungus, hie Cla: ieee iba rie in alcohol, which he do- 
nated to the Garden collec While here, he took a full sub- 
ae to ae ee. oH 
n January 22, about 240 biology pupils from Evander Childs 
Pa 
High School, accompanied by Mr. Paul B. Mann and several 
other ey tea chers, came to the Garden to study the con- 
servator d attend an illustrated lecture on Forestry 
y 
y Mr. George E Hewitt. A snowstorm interfered somewhat 
with the attendance. 
More than a hundred specimens of lichens from the Yukon 
region collected in 1898 and 1899 by Mr. R. S. Williams have 
Williams at the same time he gathered the lichens were incor- 
porated in the Garden herbarium about fifteen years ago 
