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he only annuals are to be found along the streams, in boggy 
places or as weeds in cultivated ground. 7 e deserts the 
plants are very dwarf with thick woody ro There are prac- 
tically no trees except those watered aera around the 
e ams 
e flora resembles that af Turkestan and Tibet more than 
that of Kashmir and the Himalayas although where there is 
water from oe snow, Himalayan and cosmopolitan alpine 
types are to be 
All of the pees Jane but two, Allardia and Sausswiea, are 
found here in the eastern United States. Most of the species 
that are common to "this oe and western Tibet are weeds 
oduced her 
The report was ies by herbarium specimens and 
hs. A. B.S 
photograp! . B. Stour, 
Secretary 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief, oe Mrs. Britton and 
Mr. Percy Wilson, returned to New York on March 28th after 
spending two months in botanical ts of the Isle of 
ub: 
Pines and 
r. B. L. Robinson, director of the Gray Herbarium, spent 
several dae at the Garden rece et in the study of herbarium 
material of the genus Brickeliia 
September, el a poplar tree which was badly infested 
a and specimens preserve the destructive work 
of this inse ther specimens the infested were 
placed in glass cages ept until spring. D March 
several of t ult insects emerge: of the insect is 
is a beautiful grayish insect more than an inch long. The wor 
