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could be wrecked. The temporary quarters provided in another 

 greenhouse were scarcely in working order before another move 

 was necessary. This time a hastily constructed glass lean-to, 

 placed on the east sid6 of a frame building, was made from the 

 wreckage of the two demolished houses. Good conditions for 

 securing infection could not be uniformly maintained. Not only 

 was the practical part of the work hampered in this manner, but 

 the time required in designing the botanical rooms and furnish- 

 ings for the new experiment station, making temporary adjust- 

 ments in the old quarters, and finally moving into the new build- 

 ing, seriously interfered with the correspondence and the ex- 

 cursions by which material and information are brought together 

 for making cultures of untried species. 



The chief excursion of the year was made by Mr. F. D. Kern 

 and the writer to South Carolina, with incidental stops in Tenn- 

 essee and North Carolina. It occupied a week during the middle 

 of March. The first stop was at Knoxville, Tenn., where Prof. 

 S. M. Bain, of the University of Tennessee, courteously aided us 

 in every way possible. Upon our return journey we spent a day 

 at Asheville, N. C. At both places culture material was secured. 

 The trip was especially planned, however, to visit the localities 

 made famous to mycologists by the very important contributions 

 of H. W. Ravenel. 



Mr. Ravenel belonged to a distinguished southern family, 

 whose estate lay some miles north of Charleston on the Santee 

 Canal, a water way long since fallen into disuse. It was here that 

 he obtained the material for the five centuries of his Fungi 

 Caroliniani Exsiccati, issued during the decade preceding the 

 Civil War. Nearly two days were spent most profitably in this 

 locality. Our work was much facilitated by the intelligent in- 

 terest of Mr. Octavus Cohen of Monks Corners, the nearest 

 railway town, although not himself a botanist. We were de- 

 sirous, among other things, to rediscover and identify the uncer- 

 tain rust from the trunks of cedar trees, issued as no. 87 in the 

 fifth century of the Fungi Caroliniani, under the name Gymnospo- 

 rangium Juniperi. We were not only able to do this, deciding 

 that it belongs to the multiform species, G. nidus-avis, and not to 

 the one whose name it bears, but in addition we found two hith- 



