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Blephario glottis psycodes and lacera, in the dense and watery 

 depths of the tamarack swamp. The pond is covered with white 

 water lihes, one of the most numerous colonies remaining in 

 this region. 



Mr. A. T. Beals reported to the chairman of the field com- 

 mittee, that on August 5 at Clinton, Conn., he found an 

 extraordinarily large stand of Blephario glottis ciliaris, the 

 Yellow Fringed Orchis, with 2500 flowering stalks, in a space 

 200 by 50 feet on the edge of a salt marsh. Some racemes 

 were seven inches long, with as many as 150 flowers. 



Raymond H. Torrey. 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. and Mrs. T. D. A. Cockerell have returned to the 

 University of Colorado from their trip around the world. 

 They spent considerable time in Russia and Siberia visiting 

 scientists and collecting. After several stops in India and Aus- 

 tralia, visits were made to New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa and the 

 Hawaiian Islands. While in Siberia Dr. Cockerell sent the notes 

 on the flora of the country published in our November-Decem- 

 ber number of last year. 



After a summer in studying and collecting grasses in New- 

 foundland and Labrador, Dr. A. S. Hitchcock has returned to 

 Washington, where he is in charge of s^^stematic agrostology 

 in the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Professor F. A. Varrelman, of the Department of Biology 

 of the American University, Washington, D. C, spent the sum- 

 mer in a study of dodders in the laboratories and herbarium of 

 the New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. Roland M. Harper has completed the catalogue of the 

 shrubs and trees of Alabama on which he has been working for 

 several years. The catalogue makes a book of about 350 pages 

 and is printed as a state report for free distribution throughout 

 the state. 



The report is illustrated with numerous maps of distribution 

 and photographs of the trees and shrubs. 



Mr. Wilhelm N. Suksdorf, of Bingen, Washington, was 

 awarded the honorary degree of Master of Science in Botany 

 at the spring commencement of the State College of Washing- 



