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conveniences that were placed at the disposal of the local members. For this 

 the Secretary has already made suitable acknowledgment. 

 i8 W. 89TH St., New York Cnv. 



SULLIVANT MOSS SOCIETY NOTES 



We clip the following from the Chicago daily papers, and hope later to 

 publish a more extended notice: 



"Mr. Ellsworth Jerome Hill died at his home in Chicago, January 22d, last. 

 Mr. Hill was known to thousands of Chicagoans who had been his pupils at the 

 Englewood High School, where he taught physics and natural history. He was 

 ordained a Presbyterian minister fifty-one years ago, but gave up preaching 

 after several years to become a teacher. He was known as an authority on the 

 plant life of the Lake Michigan region. Mr. Hill was born in 1833 in LeRoy, 

 N. Y. He leaves a widow, daughter, and two sons." E. B. C. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 



Cooked Lichens for Food. — In an article in the Ottawa Naturalist,^ Tom 

 'Wilson writes from Vancouver, British Columbia, concerning a number of wild 

 plants used as food by the Indians of that province. Most of our readers v/ill 

 probably not see the article, hence we quote: " I come now to one of the strangest 

 looking materials for food purposes, namely, the lichens of the dry belt, which 

 hang like old men's beards from all the coniferous trees, Alectoria jubata L. The 

 process of preparation was something like this: A large pit was dug in the ground 

 and the inside made as smooth as possible. A fire was then built inside, and the 

 pit thoroughly heated. The ashes were then thrown out and the pit received a 

 lining of damp grass, on which was laid a layer of "moss" (lichen). Another 

 layer of damp grass, then more lichen, and so on till the pit was full. It was then 

 topped off by more grass, and hot stones were laid around and over the whole 

 mass, and it was kept as hot as possible for a day or more, when it was then sup- 

 posed to be cooked. If not well prepared it was apt to mildew, but I have eaten 

 it a month after cooking and it was quite good." O. E. J. 



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Offerings — To Members only. Return postage should accompany the re- 

 quest: 



Mr. Edward B. Chamberlain, 18 West 89th Street, New York City. — 

 Rhacomitrium patens (B. & S.) Huebn., c. fr. Switzerland, collected by Mr. 

 P. G. M. Rhodes. 



Mr. A. J. Beals, 71 West 23rd Street, New York City .—Fontinalis gigantea 

 Sulliv. Sterile, collected by Mr. Beal at Hoboken, N. J., early December, 1916. 



1 Wilson, Tom. The Use of Wild Plants as Food by Indians. Ottawa Naturalist 30: 17-21. 

 ;May, igi6. 



