JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



October, 1906. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief. 



Sir: I herewith submit my report on a trip through Europe, 



collections of North American polypores in European herbaria, 

 and incidentally to become better acquainted with foreign bot- 

 anists and the methods employed in foreign botanical institutions. 



Leaving New York May 29, I arrived at Gibraltar June 9, in 

 the forenoon, and spent several hours in the old botanical garden 

 along the shore south of the town and among the numerous in- 

 teresting wild flowers that covered the limestone cliffs about the 

 fortress. 



Naples was reached June 12. The botanical garden is small, 

 thickly planted, and poorly kept, being little more than a park. 

 The plant house appears quite large from the front, but it is found 

 upon closer examination to be built against a wall and to be only 

 a few feet deep. The entire garden was still covered with vol- 

 canic ashes when I saw it. I also spent an afternoon in the 

 stricken region on the southern slope of Vesuvius, in Torre del 

 Annunziata, Boscotrecase, Boscoreal and Pompeii. Here I found 

 beds of smoking lava and quantities of ashes from the April 

 eruptions. Huge pine trees {Pinus sylvestris) had been uprooted 

 and carried along in the lava streams, and the leaves of all ever- 

 green trees had been killed by the showers of hot ashes ; but the 

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