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Five shipments of recent German periodicals have reached the 
library. This has been made possible through the efforts of the 
American Library Association which holds a license for such im- 
portations, while separate institutions do not. In the words of 
the secretary of the A. L. “The trail has led through the De- 
partment of State (with fie. changes of officials); British Em- 
Board and Censorship Board; the American Embassies in Lon- 
don and Paris, the Legations at The Hague and in Berne; the 
French Ministry of Horegn Affairs; numerous agents and over 
a hundred institutions.’ 
The periodicals for 1916 and 1917, ordered as usual through 
our American agent, are still held abroad. 
splendid sugar maple hae near the Bedford Park En- 
Gard 
we 
covered with fruit-bodies of a bracket fungus, Cerrena unicolor, 
while another species, Elfuingia megaloma, appeared during the 
past summer at the base of the tree. 
In the palm house of the New York Botanical Garden various 
species of West Indian mosses are growing, some on the earth 
One of the most interesting sorts, recently found in fine fruiting 
condition, is a small species of Fissidens, F. Kegelianus C.M.; 
this plant ranges naturally from Surinam, its first known coun- 
try, northward through the West Indies to tropical Florida, 
where it has oe collected by Dr. Small at Costello’s, Hammock 
and Madeira Bay. 
the stems of tree-ferns, Cyathea elegans, from Jamaica, ster- 
ile plants of Hypopterygium Tamarisci have been living for six- 
teen years and have gradually crept downward to the soil. Var- 
