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Additional Field Trip for the Club 



By invitation of John Scheepers, Inc., members of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club are invited to visit the display and experimental 

 gardens at the Scheepers' Estate, "Paradou," on Saturday, June 15, 

 when Irises and Peonies will be the feature display. There will 

 be a conducted tour with a talk by the Holland Hostess and a visit 

 to the garden mart. Assemble at "Paradou" at 1.30 p.m. 



Paradou is at Brookville, Long Island. Take N.Y. Route 25A, 

 Northern Boulevard. 



Corrections: In the March-April number, on page 58, in the 

 report of the scientific program the name of Dr. R. Bloch was 

 misspelled. 



On page 59, paragraph 3, line 7, casual should read causal. 

 In the same number in the article on Pronouncing Lichen 

 Names on page 41, gracilis and gracilescens should be printed 

 phonetically (gras'i-lis) and (gras-i-les'ens), not wdth the long a, 

 also saepincola and caespiticia are mispelled. 



NEWS NOTES 



Poisonous Plants. A pretentious project is under way with 

 chemists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, medical men and botanists 

 in many institutions and countries cooperating, in which all plants 

 reported to be poisonous to men or animals are to be studied. 

 Dr. Harold Moldenke of the New York Botanical Garden is cover- 

 ing the northeastern United States. Members of the Club can 

 cooperate by collecting plants supposed to be poisonous. The 

 collections should include a good specimen in flower properly 

 pressed with data as to time and place collected, also about one 

 pound of the plant material sun dried. Care to be taken that the 

 drying material does not mould and that no impurities are included. 



Gray Herbarium. In the annual report of the herbarium by 

 Dr. M. L. Fernald it is stated that more than 39,000 mounted speci- 

 mens were added to the herbarium in 1939, bringing the collection 

 of flowering plants and ferns to 1,033,850 sheets. 



