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W. A. Murrill has this to say of the species: “ Specimens of 
Globiformes graveolens were recently collected by Professor A. H. 
Graves on a living red oak trunk near New Dorp, Staten Island. 
This very curious and very interesting tree-destroying fungus was 
first described from Georgia by Schweinitz and is of rare occur- 
rence on oak, beech, and maple as far north as Pennsylvania and 
as far west as Iowa. This is the first time it has been found 
within the local flora range.” 
Doctor Hollick spoke of the spread of Tussilago farfara L.., 
introduced from Europe, on Staten Island. It was reported by 
Dr. N. L. Britton at Garretsons (Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. STATEN 
Is. 4: 51, Nov. 10, 1894 (leaves only). Doctor Hollick reported 
finding some plants in flower March 31, 1895 (See Proc. Nat. 
SC ASSESS, SmAm=y IIS, 713 72, Ajo 12, SOs). Minis was Cube 
only local record. During recent years it has become quite com- 
mon in waste places at St. George (freight yards, street sides, etc. ). 
Mr. Davis noted the occurrence of this plant (coltsfoot) along 
the Turnpike adjoining Woodland Cemetery, Dr. Philip Dowell at 
Port Richmond, and Mr. E. J. Burns at Fort Wadsworth. 
Mr. Edw. J. Burns exhibited a tiger beetle, Cicindela repanda 
Dej., captured on the beach at Sands Point, Long Island, Sep. 15, 
1918. When first observed, one of the hind legs of the beetle was 
caught between the valves of a small dead mussel, Mytilus edulis 
L., about a quarter of an inch in length, which had opened slightly 
to form an angle of about ten degrees between the shells. The 
beetle would fly to a height of about a foot, when the weight of the 
shell would pull it down again. 
A number of specimens of a fly belonging to the genus Platy- 
chirus, whose legs had become entangled in the fruit of redtop 
grass, dgrostis alba L.; the rare syrphid fly Brachypalpus rileys 
Will., taken at Richmond on March 25, 1919, and a specimen of 
the introduced beetle Carabus nemoralis Mull., found at New 
Brighton on June 2, 1918, were also shown by Mr. Burns. 
