which will be prosecuted jointly by the authors, and extended, if 

 possible, so as to include similar investigations of the fossil plant 

 remains from other localities in the Atlantic coastal plain. In a 

 recent communication from Professor Jeffrey he says : " I quite 

 agree with you as to the very great possibilities connected with 

 our proposed field of investigation. There are at least a dozen 

 promising lines of work suggested by the material already in 

 hand from Kreischerville." 



Arthur Hollick. 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 

 The effects of the unusually mild weather have been conspicu- 

 ous among the plants in the Garden. During the earlier part of 

 the month, dandelions were in bloom on the lawns, the flowers 

 and leaves of Spiraea Thunbergii were opening in numbers, and 

 the catkins of certain willows were appearing about two months 



The main park driveway, extending from the Bronx Park rail- 

 way station of the New York Central Railroad past the lakes and 

 over the fruticetum plain and north meadows to the Newell 

 Avenue entrance at Williamsbridge, was thrown open for use in 



Volume 22, part 2, of the North American Flora, appeared 

 December 18, 1905. The main portion of the work is devoted 

 to the Saxifragaceae and Hydrangeaceae, by Small and Rydberg, 

 while several minor families are treated by Britton, Small, Wil- 

 son, and Rusby. 



The clear limitation of the species of the fleshy fungi requires 

 (1) an extensive study of the plants in the field, with careful 

 notes of the fresh conditions and (2) extensive search of the 

 older literature and illustrations of the species described from 

 Europe" to properly correlate the species common to the two 

 continents. This is now being undertaken for the American 

 species containing a milky juice, which have been commonly 

 known under the name of Lactarius, by Miss Gertrude S. Bur- 

 lingham. Many of our species are apparently identical with 

 those of Europe and often appear to have a wide geographic dis- 



