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About seventy-five members of the Department of Botan 
eaver, Mr. Percy Wilson, and Miss Helene Boas. 
At ie o'clock, they assembled in the eerie Balt to hear Dr. 
N. L. Britton speak on ‘‘Early Spring Flowers. 
Volume 10, part 2, of North American Flora, by Dr. W. A. 
Mursil, appeared April 26. This part contains a of 
282 species of rosy-spored gill fungi, 107 of which are n 
Dr. Walter Mendelson has recently given an interesting collec- 
ton af herhart . | 7 Th Hected 
mostly in the vicinity of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and will 
be added to the local flora herbarium 
A number . eee ens of the rarer plants of the vicinity of 
New York by members of the Garden 
staff, have been mounted and incorporated in the local flora 
herbarium 
The Garden has recently received a collection of one hundred 
mulation of several years and is of considerable value in con- 
nection with the study of this group for North American Flora. 
Professor H. S, Jackson of the Indiana Experiment Station 
recently spent several days at the Garden in continuation of his 
work on certain groups of plant rusts. 
Professor C, G. Lloyd recently spent several days at the 
Garden studying the collections of woody fungi. 
