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Professor L. H. Pennington, of Syracuse eae spent 
several days during the Easter vacation in the Garden her- 
barium for a continuation of his studies of i genus Marasmius. 
Miss Gertrude Burlingham also spent some time examining 
specimens of the genus Russula. The results of the studies on 
these genera will appear in the next part of ‘North American 
Flora’’ dealing with fleshy fungi. 
The Garden has recently received nearly 1,000 specimens of 
fungi from Mr. Lars Romell, of Stockholm, Sweden. Mr. 
Romell is probably the best authority on the fleshy fangs of 
northern Europe. During the past summer he has been col- 
lecting higher fungi in the vicinity of Femsjo, in southern 
Sweden, where Elias Fries spent his early life and did much of 
his most careful and important work on fungi. The specimens 
recently received from this region are a valuable addition to the 
herbarium 
.N. ritton, director-i -in-chief, Mrs. N. L. Britton and 
ee ae poeta led for New York City from the West 
Indies on April 12. a J. A. Shafer, who accompanied Dr. 
Britton on the recent explorations, returned to New York City, 
April : bringing various collections for the New York Botanical 
art Dr. J. N. e, who participated in the expedition, 
ne sready returned ¢ to Washington, D. C. An account of 
will appear in a future number of the JOURNAL. 
C. F. Millspaugh, curator of botany in the Field Museum 
of Natural History at Chicago, spent several days at the Garden 
in April identifying botanical specimens. 
Mr. John F. Cowell, director of the Buffalo botanic garden, 
and Mr. Jo Dunbar, assistant superintendent of parks, 
Rochester, N. . visited the Garden, and spent a day inspecting 
the hardy collections of shrubs and trees. The collection of 
