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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Corporal Kenneth R. Boynton, Head Gardener’s Assistant 
and recently editor of the Journal, is expecting to be released 
from the United States Army in February. He entered the 
service last May and has been stationed at Camp Hancock, 
Augusta, Georgia, where he was assigned to the Department of 
Personnel, assisting in the psychological examination of recruits 
and in clerical work. 
Mr. Truman G. Yuencker, of the University of Illinois, was 
here for a day recently. He is engaged upon a monographic 
study of the genus Cuscuta. 
Volume 32, part 1, of North American Flora, containing de- 
scriptions of a part of Rubiaceae, by Paul C. Standley, appeared 
December 28, 1918. It was followed two days later by volume 
22, part 6. This contained the concluding pages of Rosaceae 
(chiefly the genus Rosa), by P. A. Rydberg, and the additions 
and corrections to the first 236 pages of the volume. It is ex- 
pected that the part needed to complete volume 22 will appear 
during the present year. 
On January 11, about thirty students from Hunter College 
visited the Garden Museum under the direction of their instruc- 
tor, Miss Alice W. Wilcox. The object of the visit was to make 
a study of the collections of fungi and algae to supplement the 
regular college work in these courses. Dr. Howe acted as guide 
to the algae and Dr. Seaver to the fungi. Emphasis was laid 
on the economic uses of these plants. 
A large collection of flowering plants from different part= of 
Cuba has recently been received for the herbarium. These cal 
lections supplement those made several years ago by members ol 
the Garden staff. 
