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situations, a number of less common ones were seen, most of 

 them pointed out by Dr. Svenson. 



Eupaloriuni triJoHahim and E. piirpureuni were found to- 

 gether, growing abundantly along the road. 



In spite of the constant cutting of wood on the area, such 

 plants as Adiantum pedatnm, Mitchella repens and Asclepias 

 phytolaccoides were still in evidence. Melanthium laiifolium was 

 found on a hillside, Conopholis americana under an oak, and 

 along the brook Athyrium acrosticJioides and Isoetes Engelmanni. 

 Typlia angnstijolia, far from its usual salt marsh habitat, was 

 found in a marsh along with T. latifolia. Some of the less com- 

 mon sedges seen were Co rex projecta, C. prasina, and C. laeviva- 

 ginata. 



Hester W. Rusk 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. A. H. Reginald Duller, first professor of botany at the 

 University of Manitoba, has resigned the chair which he has 

 held for over thirty years and has been appointed professor 

 emeritus. He proposes to continue his botanical studies in 

 England with headquarters at the Herbarium of the Royal 

 Botanical Gardens, Kew, Surrey. 



At the commencement exercises at Harvard University in 

 June the doctorate of science was conferred on Dr. Elmer D. 

 Merrill, until last year Director of the New York Botanical 

 Garden and now Administrator of the Harvard botanical units. 

 The citation accompanying the degree was "Elmer Drew Mer- 

 rill, a botanist famed for his investigations of the flora of the 

 Philippines, an administrator marked by his effectiveness in 

 many posts." 



In the Twenty-fifth annual report of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, Dr. Arthur H. Graves reports on the work being done 

 toward breeding a chestnut that will be of timber value and 

 immune to the chestnut blight. At present there are growing on 

 trial grounds at Hamden, Conn., specimens of American, Span- 

 ish, Chinese and Japanese chestnuts with a large variety of 

 hybrids between the various species. Last year seeds were 

 secured of a cross of the American and Chinese species, using 



