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vegetation of elevated mountain ranges. Unfortunately, the 
soil is dry and sandy, and the plantations are entirely exposed 
to the winds. The large greenhouses are filled with interesting 
tender plants, many of them very old and of historic importance. 
n the evening of October 19, I was entertained at the home 
of Dr. Paul Magnus, professor of botany at the University of 
Berlin, where there are this year 12,000 students. Dr. Magnusis 
IG. ie common polypody fern, Polypodium vulgare, covering the face 
of a ae ae. near Norrképing, Sweden. 
just completing a large supplement to his work on the fungi of 
the Tyrol. He is the author of several hundred articles on 
fungi, especially the plant rusts, and still finds time in his busy 
university life to add many more to the list each year 
On the evening of October 20, I left Berlin for Paris, fortunately 
escaping the great railway strike, and was established at the 
Continental Hotel, within easy reach of the Jardin des Plantes, 
