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collect plants of Scrophulariaceae. Pentstemon and Castilleja 
are the principal genera to be found in this region. He also 
respect to this family, as many critical problems can only 
solved after the accumulation of pate material. Specimens, 
living or pressed, or seeds, sent the New York Botanical 
Garden will at all times be eee i appreciated. 
The Women’s Auxiliary of The Horticultural Society of New 
York served tea to the members of the Society and of the 
in the seum building, under the direction of Mrs. Belmont 
i An r of friends of the Garden and of the Horti- 
aultaral Society were present, and much interest was manifested 
in this new influence at work to develope and foster greater 
activity along horticultural lines in this city and vicinity. 
Volume 9, part 4, of North American Flora, by Gertrude S. 
Burlingham, William A. Murrill, and Leigh H. Pennington, 
appeared April 30, 1915. It contains descriptions of 348 species 
of which 92 species are described as new. Two new genera are 
included 
K. Schneider of Vienna, who has recently been eee 
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plants and is well known as the author of the book ‘“ Laubholz- 
kunde.” 
A botanical field meeting of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences was conducted by Dr. W. A. Murrill at the New 
York Botanical Garden on the afternoon of May 22. Eighteen 
persons were present. After a tour of inspection of conservatory 
