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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Professor L. H. Pennington, of Syracuse University, spent 
several days during July in the herbarium in studies of the genus 
Marasmius 
Professor W. C. Coker, head of the Department of Botany 
of the University of North Carolina, was at the Garden for 
several days in June studying a collection of plants from North 
rolina 
Dr. Fred J. Seaver spent the early part of July at Portland, 
Connecticut, where he was engaged in the collection and study 
of local fungi, especially the fleshy Discomycetes. 
Dr. H. J. Banker, professor of biology at De Pauw University, 
Greencastle, Indiana, visited the Garden July Io to arrange for 
continuing his monographic work on the resupinate species of 
the Hydnaceae for NortH AMERICAN FLora. Dr. Banker has 
recently completed his studies of the stipitate forms of this 
family of fungi and published them in a series of articles in 
MYcococta. 
Dr. A. B. Stout, director of the laboratories, accompanied by 
. G. Arzberger, of the Bureau of Plant Industry at Wash- 
am sailed for Europe on July 11, to visit experimental 
gardens and study methods of plant breeding employed in Ger- 
many, Holland, Belgium, and England. He will spend some 
time with Professor Hugo de Vries, at Amsterdam, Holland; and 
also inspect many of the large chicory plantations in Belgium. 
He is expected to return early in September. 
Dr. Britton oe on i aan studies of Bermuda 
plants from May o June 8, in Bermuda, accompanied by 
Mr. Stewardson en Curator of Botany at the Academy of 
Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who had cooperated with him 
in these studies on previous occasions. Several species addi- 
tional to the recorded native and naturalized flora were detected, 
