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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Professor F. S. Earle, formerly a member of the Garden staff, 
about the middle of August spent some days at the Garden and 
then sailed for Porto Rico, where he is to investigate for the 
United States Government a serious and rather obscure disease of 
sugarcane 
The following botanists have pega registered in the library: 
Drs. Charles Thom and A. S. Hitchcock, Washington, D. C.; 
Professors A. H. Graves and a 7 Evans, New Haven, 
Conn.; Bishop Cameron Mann, Paeeed Fla.; Professor W. C. 
Coker, Chapel Hill, N. C.; E. D. Eddy, Bangor, Me.; W. H 
Blanchard, Montpelier, Vt., on ‘Protessor Frederick a Wolf, 
West Raleigh, N: Cc. 
F. C. Stewart, in Bulletin 448 of the New York Agric 
tural Experiment Station, ae describes and beautifully io 
tates the appraiane ce and habits of Collybia velutipes, an edible 
its cae to withstand cold. Dr. Stewart 
believes that it should be Deller known and more generally used 
for foo nd I e possible to cultivate it. 
The Report of the State Botanist of New York for 1916, by 
Dr. H. D. House, formerly a student at the Garden, contains a 
number of articles of interest to botanists in general. In addition 
to the usual list of accessions and local flora notes, there is a long 
list of species of lower fungi, either new or interesting, and a list 
of the flowering plants and ferns of the Oneida Lake region. 
and which is illustrated with very handsome photographs. 
from the New York Botanical Garden, No. 203. It is the first 
