45 
Buxus sempervirens var. angustifolia aurea. GOLDEN NARROW- 
LEAVED. Box. 
Location: Fruticetum. 
Buxus sempervirens var. aurea. GOLDEN Box. 
Location: Fruticetum. 
Buxus sempervirens var. Handsworthii. Hanpswortn’s Box. 
Location: Fruticetum. 
Buxus sempervirens var. macrophylla. LARGE-LEAVED Box. 
Location: Fruticetum. 
Buxus sempervirens var. navicularis. CHANNEL-LEAVED Box. 
Location: Fruticetum. 
Buxus sempervirens var. rotundifolia. RoUND-LEAVED Box. 
Location: Fruticetum. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Thrushes were well represented in the Garden during 1918. 
Most of the species, including two Bicknell thrushes, were seen. 
The wood duck, mother of two in 1917, had a family of nine last 
year and all survived. A rose-breasted grosbeak remained 
through-the season and two chats were seen in migration. A 
merganser was a novelty.—F. H. HOUGHTON. 
Mr. Ivan M. Johnston has recently sent to the Garden her- 
barium a large and valuable collection containing over 100 
numbers of woody and fleshy fungi, collected in the mountains 
about Claremont, California. The collection is accompanied 
by valuable field notes and sketches. Several species that have 
been known very imperfectly are represented by a number of 
good specimens in this collection. 
Mr. John H. Slocombe, originator of some of the most desir- 
able varieties of dahlias now in cultivation, died in New Haven, 
Connecticut, on January 11, in his seventy-fifth year, Last 
