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in any stage of development. It is hoped that in this case the 

 pest may be exterminated, not merely controlled as has happen- 

 ed in the past with the l)attles against other imported insect 

 pests. 



Tricholaena rosea, Nees, in the Bahamas. Mr. L. J. K. 

 Brace has recently sent a specimen of Natal Grass to the New 

 York Botanical Garden, collected by him as an escape from 

 cultivation on a roadside in New Providence. This is an addition 

 to the Bahama Flora. It may become as common there in time 

 as it has in Cuba and Florida. 



In the Proceedings of the Club, the meeting of March 20, 

 a proposed amendment to the laws of New York State was 

 referred to. The amendment, introduced by Senator Fearon 

 and Assemblyman Sargent, both of Onondaga County, is as 

 follows : 



Subdivision 2 of Section 1425 of the Penal Law of the 

 State of New York shall be amended to read as follows: 



Cuts down, girdles, or otherwise injures or destroys a fruit, shade, or 

 ornamental tree standing on the lands of another, or takes, picks, plucks, 

 severs, carries away, removes or injures, in a manner to kill or cause to die, 

 or destroys any plant, shrub, tree or vine of any wild or cultivated trailing 

 arbutus (Epigaea repens), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), mountain 

 laurel (Kalmia latifolia), any of the moccasin flowers including Cypripedium 

 acaule, Cypripedium pubescens, Cypripedium parv-iflorum, Cypripedium 

 regina or either Gentiana crinita or Gentiana andrewsii or ferns of any kind 

 growing on the lands of the people of the state or in any street, highway, 

 public place or park belonging to or under the control of any county, city 

 town or village; or Who wilfully digs up, takes or carries away the hart's 

 tongue fern (Scolopendrium vulgare) from any location in Onondaga or 

 jMadison Counties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



The Conservation Commission and the State Council of 

 Parks, within their respective jurisdiction, their several employ- 

 ees, the State Police and all peace officers, are charged with the 

 duty of enforcing this section. 



Possession by any person of the whole or part of a plant which 

 this section is intended to protect shall be presumptive evidence 

 that the same was unlawfully taken by the possessor. 



Work is under way for an addition to the Boyce-Thompson 

 Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers. The present laboratory- 

 building is L-shaped, to this will be added on the north a 25 



