NEWS AND NOTES 



A recently published list of registered investigators at the New 

 York Botanical Garden during the first ten years of its history 

 shows that nearly 25 per cent, of these investigators devoted all 

 or most of their time while in residence to the study of fungi. 



A summary of botanical work at the New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station from 1882 to 1907, by F. C. Stewart, indi- 

 cates the great advances made in plant pathology since the dis- 

 covery of bordeaux mixture in France and the establishment of 

 agricultural experiment stations throughout the United States. 



Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Murrill returned from Jamaica, January 

 27, with a large collection of fleshy fungi. Collections were 

 made at fourteen different points on the island, from sea level to 

 elevations of over six thousand feet. Copious notes and colored 

 illustrations were obtained from specimens in a fresh condition. 



The Journal of the New York Botanical Garden for December 

 contains an article of several pages on the edible fungi of Bronx 

 Park, illustrated by two plates containing twelve figures, five of 

 which are colored. 



Nine parts of North American Flora have been issued to date, 

 four of which are mycological in character. Vol. 7, part 1, con- 

 tains descriptions of the families Ustilaginaceae and Tilletiaceae, 

 by G. P. Clinton ; vol. 7, part 2, the Coleosporiaceae, Uredinaceae 

 and Aecidiaceae (pars), by J. C. Arthur; and vol. 9, parts 1 and 2, 

 the Polyporaceae, by W. A. Murrill. 



An important addition to the literature of the fleshy fungi has 

 recently been made by Miss Gertrude Burlingham, now of the 

 Eastern High School, Brooklyn, who was a student at the 

 Garden and Columbia University from 1905 to 1908, during 



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