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conspicuous examples among the woody plants that occur to me : 

 Finns Sfrobus, Tsuga. Junipcrus dcprcssa, Hicoria, Bctitla spp., 

 Alniis, Fagiis, Castanca, Qucrcus nwntana, Ulnius, Liriodcndron, 

 Rhus glabra, Tilia, F rax in us. (Where a generic name stands 

 alone it means that no species of that genus is common on the 

 Cape.) 



Most of these probably prefer richer soils than the average of 

 those on Cape Cod, while a few are partial to rocky places. The 

 climate may be a little too warm for Finns Strobus, for that is 

 also comparatively scarce in Connecticut and almost unknown out- 

 side of cultivation on Long Island. .Vlthough I have not visited 

 the Cape in spring, I would expect to find most of the handsome 

 spring flowers that are characteristic of rich shady woods nearly 

 throughout the eastern United States rare or absent there too. 



Although few species may be added to the known flora of Cape 

 Cod hereafter by floristic botanists, and most of the vegetation has 

 been more or less altered by civilization, there are still many prob- 

 lems in plant sociology, demography, geography, and ecology there 

 that will amply repay investigation by persons interested in such 

 matters. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE SPORES OF SCHIZO- 

 FHYLLUM COMMUNE 



J. F. Adams 



This cosmopolitan fungus is classified in the white spore group 

 of agarics. The hymenium appears to vary in color apparently 

 depending on age. Young sporophores have flesh-colored hy- 

 menia, while in the more mature the color may I)e white to purplish 

 cinereous. 



In 191 7 I* observed in cultures of mature sporophores that 

 where the spores were shed in mass upon the agar surface they 

 were pink or distinctly salmon in color. The mass of spores 

 making forty spore prints from material collected in the field. 



* Mtin. Torrey Bot. Club 17: 326-333. 1918. 



