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1876, a year after the first opening of Wellesley, she at once showed so 
marked a talent for the study of botany, especially for the identification of 
cryptogamic flora, that she was retained as a permanent member of that 
department of study, bearing the title of curator of the museum, 1878-79, 
instructor in botany, 1879-86. After a period of study in Zurich, Miss Cum- 
mings returned to the college as associate professor of cryptogamic botany. 
In 1905 she became Hunnewell professor of botany, with temporary charge 
of the department. In 1906 her title was changed to that of Hunnewell pro- 
fessor of cryptogamic botany, in recognition of the closely specialized work 
in which she had reached distinction, and with the hope that freed from the 
burden of administrative cares she would gain strength for new enterprises 
in her chosen field. Her health, however, proved to be seriously impaired. 
Among the published works of Professor Cummings are “Lichens of 
Alaska and Labrador;” she also edited “ Decades of North American Lich- 
ens,” and was associate editor of “ Plant World;” she was fellow of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the Society of 
Plant Morphology and Physiology (vice president in 1904), of the Mycologi- 
cal Society, Torrey Botanical Club, Boston Society of Natural History and 
Boston Mycological Club. Her studies were quickened and exalted by a 
passionate love of nature in its loftier forms. Especially dear to her was the 
mountain region of North Woodstock, N. H., her summer home. To those 
who knew her in those inspiring scenes, she seemed one with the genius of 
the place. Affectionate, gentle, trusting, brave of heart and blithe of spirit, 
she was in her life blessed by the devoted attachment of noble friends to 
whom her death brings lasting sorrow.” 
LESCURAEA FRIGIDA IN VERMONT 
Annie Lorenz. 
The species in question was collected by Dr. A. J. Grout and the writer 
on Mt. Mansfield, Vt., July 6, 1906, during the summer meeting of the Ver- 
mont Botanical Club. 
The specimens grew on the eastern face of a granite rock, on the path to 
the Ice Cave on the “Upper Lip” of the mountain, at about 4300 ft. alt. 
They were of a bronze-golden color, quite closely appressed to the rock, 
and were sterile. They were hastily collected as Pterigynandrum, but upon 
examination by Mrs. Britton and the writer it proved to be a Pseudoleskea 
of such puzzling appearance that it was submitted to Dr. Best. 
He reports it as Lescuraea frigida Kindb. very close to his own Pseudo- 
leskea substriala, which however is a British Columbian species, and he pre- 
fers to keep Kindberg’s name for the eastern form. 
Lescuraea frigida Kindb. Eu. & N. Am. Bryineae 1: 26, 1897. 
“ Leaves from subovate base nearly gradually narrowed to the long sub- 
ulate or filiform-pointed acumen, recurved to it and distinctly decurrent; cells 
sublinear except the quadrate alar ; costa sometimes long-excurrent. Stem- 
leaves generally entire; branch-leaves serrulate at the whole acumen, some- 
times short-acuminate and faintly mamillose. Capsules unknown. Stem 
