Step's ' Wayside and Woodland Trees/'t a neat little volume of 

 r 75 pages, designed to fit the pocket and serve as a guide to 

 British trees. There are 127 full page plates from photographs 

 showing each tree as a whole, with additional views of its trunk 

 at short range. Each tree is carefully described and much about 

 it that is interesting noted, and the text is further supplemented 

 by fifty drawings of flowers and fruit. The book is an excellent 

 one for comparison with our own flora. 



The welcome accorded the first edition of Captain Mc- 

 Ilvaine's " 1000 American Fungi,"* has lead the author to issue 

 a second edition which in all respects is equal to the first, but 

 which costs much less. The book deals with the principal edible 

 and poisonous mushrooms or toadstools and includes an account 

 of the puffballs and allied fungi. Contrary to the general opinion 

 a large number of the so-called toadstools are edible — Captain Mc- 

 Ilvaine has himself tested about five hundred kinds — and these 

 are carefully described and well illustrated. There are one 

 hundred and eighty-two plates, many of them colored, besides 

 other illustrations in the text. The book is one that will interest 

 every eater of fungi, and one that all who can should own. 



t" Wayside and Woodland Trees." By Edward Step. F. Warne & 

 Co.: London and New York. 1904. $1.75 net. 



*One Thousand American Fungi. By Charles Mcllvaine and Robert 

 K. Macadam. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co. Small 4-to. 729 pp. 

 $5.00 net. 



THE LINNEAN FERN CHAPTER 



OF THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



— Dr. C. E. Waters has changed his address to Bureau 

 of Standards, Washington, D. C. 



— Owing to a pressure of other duties, Mr. Homer D. House 

 has been obliged to resign as Secretary of the Chapter. His 

 work has been taken up by the newly elected Secretary, Mr. A. 

 Vincent Osmun, whose address is Amherst, Mass. 



— Members of the Chapter who would like specimens of 

 Lycopodnim Chapmani (L. adpressum) and Woodzi'ardia areolata 

 from the District of Columbia, may obtain them by sending six 



