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C. lutcovircns. This may be distinct from alpina, but whether it 

 is or not, surely alpina stands. 



2. Trifolium heterodon (Watson). This was introduced (Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 8 : I 30) as a variety of the plant we used to call 

 T. involucratum. Xow Dr. Greene says this is not invohtcratum, 

 and proposes for it the name T. Fendleti. It seems doubtful 

 whether Fendleri is a species distinct from heterodon, but in any 

 case the name of prior date is valid. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Mosses of the Catskill Mountains, N. Y. — The Decora- 

 tion Day trip of the Torrey Club to Woodland Valley resulted 

 in a fine collection of mosses. The best discovery was Bryum 

 proligerum, which was found fruiting at one station ; it usually 

 propagates by slender, branching gemmae from the axils of the 

 upper leaves. We also found one log covered with Dicranum 

 viride in fine fruit and on one old sugar maple gathered Zygodon 

 viridissimus . Bitxbanmia apliylla was in fine condition on a road- 

 side bank and on dripping ledges of a quarry were found Bar- 

 tramia OEderiana, Tricliostomum temarostre, Homalia gracilis and 

 Bryum capillarc. On Slide Mountain at an elevation of 3,500 ft., 

 on cliffs and ledges among balsams, were collected fine specimens 

 of Raphidostegium Jamcsii and R. laxepatulum ; Plagiothccium 

 striatellum and P. Mullerianum ; Hylocomium umbratum and H. 

 Pyrenaicnm ; Dicrannm fusccscens and D. longifolium. 



Elizabeth G. Britton. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe, who has recently been appointed an 

 assistant Curator in the Xew York Botanical Garden, is spending 

 the months of July and August in Nova Scotia and Newfound- 

 land, making collections for the Garden. He is accompanied by 

 Clifton D. Howe, Fellow in Botany in the University of Chicago, 

 and by William Lang, a Museum Aid at the Garden. 



Dr. Alexander P. Anderson, recently of Clemson College, 

 South Carolina, and of the University of Minnesota, has been ap- 

 pointed Curator of the Herbarium of Columbia University. 



