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Visitors coming by the Subway change to the Elevated Railw ay 
for crosstown trolley, transferring north at Third Avenue 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. Ira Dietrich Cardiff, a student at the Garden from 1904 
0 1906 o has recently been head professor in Washington 
ate Colleze and plant physiologist of the Washington State 
lesa Experiment Station, has been appointed director of 
at Experiment Station, ee his position as head of the 
eee of botany in the Colle 
Four handbooks on the flora of Florida have recently been 
published by Dr. John ae Small, head curator of the museums 
and herbarium, completing his investigations on the plants of 
oe state in so far as collections made up to the present time are 
concerned. 
. The “Flora of Miami” tains descripti f the flowering 
fe growing naturally in the everglade ond limestone region 
of ee peninsular Florida 
. The ‘Florida Trees” contains descriptions of the native 
and marunaliged trees of the State of Florida, seas 366 species. 
Flora of the Florida Keys,” containing descriptions of the 
ee plants of the islands of the a reef from Virginia 
‘ on the ee to the Tortugas on the southwest. 
4. ‘Shrubs of Florida,” Sa descriptions of the native 
and ee shrubs of the s 
All four of the handbooks contain analytical keys and cita- 
tions of the geographic distribution of the species. Ther 
much original information in all these volumes. The ian 
on which the studies were based are nearly all preserved in the 
herbarium of the Garden. 
The second part of Volume 15 of North American Flora, con- 
taining descriptions of the genera and species of the moss families 
