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tucky fungi made by Professor G. D. Smith, of Richmond, Ken- 
tucky, for Professor Bruce Fink, of Miami University. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, on account of the lateness of the hour, dis- 
cussed but briefly some of the results of Dr. J. A. Shafer’s work 
in the exploration of the flora of the Cuban keys. From this 
work it is found that the number of species thought to be endemic 
to the Bahama Islands is greatly reduced. The elie! nd 
mens illustrating the extension of the Bahama flora 
hibited: Acacia coriophylla Benth. Badiera anaes Britton, 
Cestrum bahamense as Chevices pinetorum Britton, Cordia 
alge Urban, Cyperus floridanus Britton, Galactia spici- 
formis T.&G., Iresine Keyensis Millsp., Jacquinia Keyensis Mez., 
pee eee bahamense Northrop, Pseudophoenix Sargentii 
Wendl. and Terebinthus inaguensis Britton. 
Frep J. SEAVER. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe delivered an illustrated lecture, Oc- 
tober 30, on “ The Plant Life of the Sea,” in Fullerton Hall, Art 
Institute, Chicago, in the thirty-first free lecture course of the 
ield Museum of Natural History. 
Dr. and Mrs. Howe sailed on the S. S. “Tagus” for Colon, 
November 27, intending to devote five or six weeks to the collec- 
tion and study of the marine algae of the Panama region 
Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, curator of botany at the Field Museum 
of Natural History, Chicago, spent three weeks during November 
at the Garden carrying on further studies of the flora of the 
Bahamas in codperation with Dr. N. L. Britton. 
Mr. W. W. Eggleston returned to the New York Botanical 
Garden, October 30, after a ten weeks’ trip through the Southern 
States east of the Mississippi. A week was devoted to botanical 
exploration in South Carolina in the vicinity of the home of 
omas Walter, author of the Flora Caroliniana, published in 
1788. Several hours were spent at the Charleston Museum in 
examining the herbarium of Stephen Elliott. Mr. Elliott had 
