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of exploring expeditions in the South and West; text-books; 
works on cryptogamic botany. It is especially rich in 
a eee on hepatics and ferns. Many duplicate books from 
this collection have been placed in the laboratories and herbaria. 
A complete list of accessioned books from the Underwood Library 
appears in the October and November numbers of the Garden 
JOURNAL. 
The Underwood Collection of Fungi, containing 17,000 speci- 
mens, was purchased by the New York Botanical Garden in 
July, 1914. In addition to valuable sets of published exsiccati, 
it contains a full representation of all the fungi collected by th 
late Lucien M. Underwood at Auburn, Alabama; Greencastle, 
Indiana; Syracuse, Kirkville, Jamesville, and Clyde, New York; 
est Goshen and Redding, Connecticut; and at many points 
in and about New York City. There are also miscellaneous 
specimens from many parts of North America, either collected 
by Dr. Underwood in his travels or sent in by collectors for deter- 
mination. All groups of fungi are well represented in this collec- 
tion and the specimens are well preserved. Pag of them are 
valuable types. . A. MurRILL. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. P. A. Rydberg, of the Garden staff,.spent two weeks in 
Neon at the National Museum, Washington, D. C., in a 
study of the HELENEAE, a tribe of the Compositae, in prepa- 
ration for a forthcoming number of North American Flora. 
Professor L. H. Pennington, of the department of botany, 
Syracuse oe spent several days at the Garden during 
ovember in studies of herbarium material of fungi pertaining 
to studies o North American Flora 
The immediate effects of the Weethep condivions during the 
past summer and autum ‘wo youn: 
trees of the sweet or Eg gum Gaines Styraciflua) 
