143 
The second (June) number of Addisonia, the new Garden 
tomum, Notylia sagittifera, Exogonium microdactylum, Vitex 
Agnus-castus, Opuntia macrorhiza, and Commelina communis 
A large colored chart of edible and poisonous mushrooms, pre- 
pared and cae shed by Dr. W. A. Murrill, oaks early in 
oe 19 The handbool a pany chart appeared 
in Jun 
A splendid white oak over a hundred years old, which stands 
near Conservatory pense 2 on the ne ere the Bronx 
River, was struck b uly 13 
da wide gash es in its trunk for fifty feet or more. It is 
doubtful whether it can survive the shock. During the same 
storm, a red oak four ies in amen and oe least a hundred 
years old, standing in tl f the Economic 
Garden, was iilled i. a bolt which ripped the bark from the 
main portion of the trunk in strips two feet wide at some points. 
The National Education Association h 
in New York City during the at week in ve and on the after- 
the teachers at ite aunts as where the hardy water- 
lilies were in full flower. 
Dr. Eugenio Cuesta y Torralbas, who was professor of Nat- 
ural Sciences in the Institute of Pinar del Rio, died in March, 
1916, in his sixtieth year. He deeded all his scientific collections, 
