tribution on both hemispheres. Others are apparently local or 

 at least are known at present only from a very limited area, and 

 apparently are less able to maintain the struggle for existence. 

 This group of fungi contains a number of economic species and 

 presents a great diversity in the character of the fluid which fills 

 the entire tissue of the plant. Miss Burlingham has an interest- 

 ing field and will combine with the systematic study of the group 

 some investigations as to the nature of this milky fluid and its 



Miss Caroline Coventry Haynes is continuing the studies on 

 the classification of the Hepaticae to which she has devoted a 

 portion of her time during the past four years. During the 



arrangement of the Hepaticae in the Garden herbarium, to which 

 she has contributed numerous specimens of her own collecting 

 in New Jersey, Massachusetts, northern New York, and North 

 Carolina. A number of American Hepaticae, including one of 

 the peculiar taxonomic interest, she has now under cultivation in 

 one of the propagating houses of the Garden. Miss Haynes 

 published notes on " Some interesting Hepaticae from Maine" in 

 Torreya for March, 1903. About a year ago, she took charge 

 of the hepaticological work of the Sullivant Moss Chapter and 

 in this connection has contributed to the Bryologist " Notes on 

 a Colony of Hepatics found associated on a dead Fungus " and 

 illustrated articles on " Telaranea nematodes longifolia" and 

 " Cephalozia Francisci." With the beginning of its ninth volume 

 (1906) she becomes one of the assistant editors of the Bryologist. 

 Miss Haynes has now, also, ready for publication descriptions of 

 two new species of Aytonia from the island of Jamaica, and has 

 prepared detailed and artistic drawings illustrating the habit and 

 structure of these hitherto unknown plants. 



The total precipitation in the Garden during December, 1905, 

 amounted to 2.64 inches. Maximum temperatures of 54 on 

 the 8th, 53" on the 13th, 54 on the 18th, and 53.5" on the 

 29th were recorded ; also minima of 23° on the 10th, 18° on the 

 15th, 22 on the 25th, and 24.5" on the 28th. 



