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A table showing the geographical distribution through the 
United States of the species collected showed that the fungous 
flora of the Wisconsin region probably does not differ materially 
from that of any other region. Where species had not been 
reported in other state lists it was evident that it might be a 
species not easily recognized or that the region had not yet been 
thoroughly worked. 
FRED J. SEAVER. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury, Vermont, recently spent 
a day at the Garden herbarium. Dr. Brainerd was on his way 
south to study violets in the field for about two months. 
The second instalment of the George Massee fungus her- 
barium which arrived here in January is being incorporated in 
the permanent collections. This addition consists of about 
twenty-five hundred specimens of Discomycetes which are of 
great value in connection with work on ‘‘North American Flora.” 
Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and Mr. Percy Wilson returned 
from Cuba, April 6. A large amount of herbarium material, 
specimens of living plants and many valuable notes on geo- 
graphic distribution were secured. A report of this expedition 
will appear in the May JouRNAL. 
Number 24, Vol. VII., of the Bulletin of the New York Botani- 
cal Garden, containing the annual report of the Director-in-Chief 
and other official documents, was issued March 17, 1910. 
Dr. J. A. Shafer returned to the Garden, April 5, having spent 
six months in botanical exploration in northeastern Cuba. 
visited the principal keys bordering the north coast westwardly 
of Nuevites Bay, explored the pine-covered plateau of the Sierra 
Nipe, and made several excursions into the little-known mountain 
regions west of Baracoa. 
Mr. Wilmer G. Stover, of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 
spent several weeks at the Garden during March and April, 
preparing a key to the gill-fungi of Ohio. 
Professor F. D. Heald, of the University of Texas, visited the 
