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father's Peak, Mt. Mitchell, Craggy Mts., Pisgah and Bait 

 Mts. Many collections were made. An Aconitum, reported to 

 him as Larkspur, was found which was poisoning cattle. Mrs. 

 G. P. Anderson reported on her work on lichens — a full account 

 of which will be published later in Torreya. The secretary 

 mentioned the collection of Linnaea horealis on the top of Black 

 Head in the Catskills, and also Rihes lacustre near the top of the 

 same mountain. These collections were made on one of the 

 trips of the Torrey Club during the summer. 



Arthur H. Graves, 

 Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. H. A. Gleason of the New York Botanic Gardens left 

 on Jan. 14 for Porto Rico. He is to work in cooperation with 

 Dr. Melville T. Cook in studying the plants of Porto Rico 

 and their distribution. Later in the season Dr. and Mrs. N. L. 

 Britton will join Dr. Gleason in the work. 



A recent notice in the newspapers tells us that the State of 

 Washington has joined the movement toward protecting wild 

 flowers and has made it a misdemeanor to cut any shrubs or 

 wild flowers within 300 feet of the public highway without 

 permission of the owner of the land. 



This fall the newspapers of New York City were full of ac- 

 counts of large fields of hemp, Cannabis sativa, grown in or 

 about the city for the sake of furnishing the narcotic drug 

 hasheesh. They claimed that the hemp had been planted by a 

 group of Mexicans, some of it in City Parks, and that they gath- 

 ered the leaves at night and prepared and peddled the drug. 

 According to the accounts, the authorities found several of 

 these fields and destroyed a large number of the plants. (The 

 drug is prepared from the flowering tops, chiefly of the staminate 

 plants, not from the leaves.) 



At the meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science held during Christmas week at Kansas City, 

 Dr. Liberty Hyde Baily was elected president of the Association 

 and also of the Botanical Society of America. 



