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during the growing season than the forest trees or can stand a 
shorter growing season, or is less affected by frost, and besides 
can stand better desiccating winds, ae snow, less precipitation, 
etc., or a combiation of such conditio Some authors claim 
that ae and arctic plants are ener but this is not 
necessarily so. Not a few arctic and alpine plants require a 
good deal of moisture, growing only below snow banks or in 
springy or boggy places. Even a few aquatic plants are eee 
Then Dr. Rydberg shortly discussed the fo: oe of t 
he 
alpine flora and gave the following formations: T! ae 
Formation, Mountain Crest Formation, Mountain ae For. 
mation, Alpine Meadow Formation, Alpine ] Formation, 
and Alpine Lake and Pond Formation. To these may be also 
added two rather local formations, the cliff eres and the 
snow-drift formatio 
Dr. F. eaver ae specimens of the hickory barkbeetle 
and eee briefly the life history and habits of the insect. 
Attention was called to s of the natural enemies of this in- 
jurious insect and also ser means of controlling it. An 
illustrated account of this pest will appear in a later number of 
the JOURNAL. 
A. B. Stour. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Mr. E. G. Arzberger was granted a scholarship for the month 
of May to make an anatomical study of Coleus with respect to the 
distribution of the colored tissues. 
Mr. A. C. Fraser, of Cornell University, has come to the New 
York Botanical Garden to assist during the coming summer in 
the experimental work in plant breeding. 
Mr. William H. Lamb, of the United States Forest Service, 
recently spent a few days at the Garden consulting arborescent 
specimens in connection with his work in Forest Distribution. 
