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These were examined with great care and interest and their 

 -history detailed to us by Dr. Kingsbury, who had cut off sundr\" 

 slices- from their expansive tops. At the close of the address,. 

 Dr. Kingsbury also staged a very effective denouement b>' 

 turning out all the artificial lights and allowing several clusters 

 of Clitocyhe iUudens suspended above us to shine forth in their 

 weird, ghost-like glory. This brilliant orange fungus has the 

 power of phosphorescence and I have succeeded in reading a 

 newspaper with the help of its light. 



On Tuesday, I drove with Dr. Kingsbury and his family about 

 fifty miles westward to Yama Farms, where we had luncheon and 

 spent some time hunting for fungi about Jenny Brook, where 

 the trout are bred. Here we found a number of additional 

 interesting forms to add to those already secured at Woodstock, 

 among them a beautiful yellow Amanita named in honor of 

 Charles Frost, the shoemaker botanist. We also found a "fairy 

 ring" thirty feet in diameter containing scores of gemmed puff- 

 balls of unusual size. In the Middle West, the giant puffball 

 sometimes grows in giant "fairy rings"! 



New York Botanical Garden, 

 New York City. 



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Onobrychis onobrychis (L.) Rydb. in the Eastern United- 

 States.- — This Eurasian plant was collected at Fort Howard,. 

 Wisconsin, as early as June 15, 1882. How it was introduced 

 there seems not to have been recorded. In the meantime it 

 became an important fodder-plant in the Rocky Mountain 

 region. Its widespread use as a fodder plant resulted in its 

 prompt naturalization in the vicinity where it was cultivated. 

 Thus it was scattered through the Rocky Mountain States, and 

 it has been found in British Columbia. Within the past decade 

 it has been found along railroads in Missouri. More recently 

 wild plants have been collected in New York. Specimens came 

 to The New York Botanical Garden last year from Dr. Anna E. 

 Perkins with a note to the effect that they were gathered in 

 Gowanda, New York, June ist, 1922. The colony was first 

 discovered by Dorothy Raymond, a school girl of Gowanda in 

 1919. The plants originated fiT>m the seeds brought to Gowanda. 

 in imported hides. 



