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Atriplcx pdtuld, dried and Imndlt-d. 



Tubers of Psoralea esculenta on tlic plant. 



Tubers of Solan iim Fcudleri on tlic plant. 



Tubers of Sohniiim Jamcsii on the plant. 



Tubirs of Hoffmansegiiia on the plant. 



Grain of wild rice in the hull. 



The same, cleaned. 



Chufas, about two pounds. 



Each specimen will be placed in the cases prominenth' labeled 

 with the name of the donor and the same acknowledgment will 

 be made in the printed Guide Book. — H. H. Rusby, Hon. 

 Curator 



Dr. Henry Allen Gleason has been appointed the First Assist- 

 ant of the Director of the New York Botanical Garden, succeed- 

 ing Dr. W. A. Murrill, who has been transferred to the new pos- 

 ition of Supervisor of Public Instruction. 



Camillo Schneider, whose botanical explorations in China were 

 cut short by the war, and who has been studying Salix at the 

 Arnold Arboretum, recently visited the Field Museum at Chicago, 

 the New York Botanical Garden, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 and other institutions. Mr. Schneider has been working on the 

 native American willows, of which he reports the number of 

 probable wild hybrids to be very great. 



