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Urge upon the civic center the great need of at least one large 
NATURAL PARK, including woodland now wild, and, if possible, a 
river or stream. Such park to have walks and drives BUT NO 
LAWNS, FLOWER BEDS, nor SET PLANTING whatever. Bring into 
such park in profusion all the species of native wild plants that 
will grow therein—plant them naturally AND LET THEM ALONE. 
Urge legislation that will exempt from taxation all neighboring 
woodlands, providing no cattle are pastured therein nor use 
made thereof, providing that the owners place such lands under 
the supervision of local Park Boards and allow free use by the 
people so long as the lands are exempt. 
ge upon the school management that they set aside one 
school day of each school month from April to November inclu- 
sive, to the purpose of a field pilgrimage to floral regions. Such 
agin to be conducted by persons competent to instruct 
e pupils in the nature and love of plants and the essential 
ne of their conservatio 
Dr. C. F. MILispauGa, 
Curator of the Department 2 Botany of the Field Museum 
of Natural History, Chic 
President of the Wald ee nr Society of America 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. W. A. Murrill, assistant director, visited Washington and 
vicinity during the latter part of September and collected a 
number of fungi of interest. He found the two poisonous species 
Venenarius phalloides and Clitocybe illudens especially abundant: 
the latter growing in open fields, as well as in woods, about o 
stumps and buried roots. All of the woodlands were found to be 
infected with the chestnut canker, which caused the death of 
many individual branches this season, but is expected to do the 
greatest damage in the next two or three years. As a large 
percentage of the timber about Washington is chestnut, the loss 
will be very considerable. 
