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No attempt has been made to alter nomenclature or to 

 eradicate certain errors common to most texts on this subject. 

 The book can be recommended to students as probably the best 

 guide to the larger fungi of England to be had in compact form, 

 and as a very convenient introduction to most of the genera of 

 the basidiom^^cetes and ascomycetes occurring in temperate 

 regions. W. A. Murrill 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. W. A. Murrill left for South America on January 12, to 

 be gone three months. He was sent by the New York Botanical 

 Garden on a Mycological expedition to secure specimens of 

 fungi in Argentina, Brazil, and British Guiana. He sailed on 

 the S. S. "Van Dyck" direct to Buenos Aires and will make 

 several stops on the return journey. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick was the official representative of the 

 Torrey Club as well as of the New York Botanical Garden and 

 the Botanical Society of America at the Commemorative Meet- 

 ing to Joseph Leidy held in Philadelphia on December 6th. 



At the annual meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences 

 Dr. Robert A. Harper made the presidential address on Growth 

 and Form in Plants. 



From Science we note that Dr. H. A. Gleason of the New York 

 Botanical Garden has recently resigned his position as assistant 

 director and become curator. He will devote most of his time 

 to the study of the flora of northern South America. Dr. 

 Marshall A. Howe succeeds Dr. Gleason as assistant director 

 of the Garden. 



Mr. Wilhelm Suksdorf, who describes a new Saxifrage in this 

 issue, has just published the first two numbers of "Werdenda" 

 a pamphlet to be issued at irregular intervals describing new 

 species of plants from Washington. In number two of the maga- 

 zine he describes twenty six new species and varieties of plants. 

 The magazine is printed in German. 



ERRATA 



On page 41 (number 3) for Arctostaphylos unedo read Arbutus 



unedo. 

 On page 68 (number 4), line 20, for "var. of form" read Var. as 



form." 



