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the Field Museum, Chicago, has returned from several months' 

 work in herbaria of Geneva and Florence to the Paris Jardin des 

 Plantes where he makes his headquarters. He has been in 

 Europe for ten years making photographs of type specimens of 

 plants for the Museum. The 1,500 negatives he recently sent 

 the museum bring the total in the collection to about 36,000. 

 Prints from these are made at cost for botanists and institutions 

 all over the world. 



A MONUMENT to a flower. In Toulouse, France a monument 

 has been erected to the chrysanthemum and to Captain Bernet 

 who was the first to develop it in France. Born in 1776, Bernet 

 served in the Napoleonic wars, but after retiring from the 

 army, became an expert horticulturist. 



At the International Flower Show in the Grand Central 

 Palace, New York, in March the New York Botanical Garden 

 arranged a display of some 150 varieties of Begonias from their 

 large collection. The Journal of the Garden for March contains 

 a description of each species and variety exhibited. 



In a news note in Torreya for January-February, 1938, there 

 was a comment on the second annual report of the Botanical 

 Garden of Huntington College, Indiana. The third report just 

 received lists nearly six hundred species of flowering plants, 

 ferns and trees, mostly natives of Indiana, growing in the 

 garden. An interesting feature of both reports is the series of 

 observations on the growth of plants that have been removed to 

 habitats quite unlike their natural ones. Among them are Sweet 

 Flag, Acorus calamus, Water Hemlock, Cicuta maculata, Marsh 

 Marigold, Caltha palustris, and Water Willow, Decodon verticil- 

 laris, that are growing well in dry uplands three years after 

 transplanting from the swamp. 



Lichens of the New York area. In this number of Torreya 

 there is printed an article on certain lichens of the New York 

 area. Mr. Nearing has in preparation a series of articles that will 

 cover all the lichens commonly found in the region, with illus- 

 trations of the type accompanying this article. If published these 

 will occupy a considerable part of Torreya for at least the next 

 ten numbers. Before publishing the whole series the editor and 

 Mr. Nearing would like to know if readers of Torreya will find 

 such a series valuable. 



