Volume 35 March-April, 1935 No. 2 



TORREYA 



A Bi-Monthly Journal of Botanical Notes and News 



EDITED FOR 



THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



BY 



GEORGE T. HASTINGS 



John Torrey, 1796-1873 



CONTENTS 



Where our food plants came from. E. D. Merrill 25 



Fungus flora of a front lawn. Laura A. Kolk 31 



Two hardy bamboos of East China. W. M. Porterfield 33 



Gentiana andrewsii forma albiflora Britton in Allegheny National 



Forest, Pennsylvania. Sidney K. Eastwood 37 



Bibliographical miscellany — I. On ambiguity in author abbreviations. 



Joseph Ewan 39 



New York Botanical Garden Publication 42 



Book Review 



A popular fern book, H. L. Blomquist. Ferns of North Carolina, 



George T. Hastings 42 



Field trips of the Club 44 



Proceedings of the Club 48 



News notes 51 



Published for the Club 



. By The George Banta Publishing Company 

 450-454 Ahnaip Steeet, Menajha. Wisconsin 



Entered as second class matter at the post office at Menasha, Wisconsin, 

 under the Act of March 3, 1879 



