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in the Montane Zone perhaps about the same, but if the Cascade 
species which have invaded the western slope of the northern 
ai e 
to ae bball See oe ae Norther Rockies, This cnieee 
humi 
in the whole Rocky Mountain chain and in the Cascades, but 
less so in the Sierra Nevada, and the Montane Zone is humid in 
the Cascades but rather arid in the Rockies except on the 
wot ae oF the aoa Rockie 
about 50 per cen 
in the ‘Alpine Zone, about 60 per cent. in the Subelbine Do, 
and between 60 per cent. and 70 per cent. in the aac Zone. 
That the padenic cloner in of last should be so large is sur- 
prising a nearly panne forest from 
British Cia and Alberta: to New Mexico, and is contiguous 
in the north with the same zones of the Appalachian and Pacific 
provinces 
Dr. F. J. Seaver called attention to the similarity and apparent 
identity of the two fung i known as Bence hee and idl 
sculenta. If these s would seem to be 
the case ota a 5 study of the literature and availabe Specimens; 
then 
valid unded 
na ee osed difference between the two above mentioned 
species. The genus has be Imost universally accepted 
mycologists and has become thoroughly established in literature 
