8 
Cimicifuga racemosa, Nutt. C. G. Lloyd. (Drugs and Medicines 
of North America, i., (1885), pp. 244-272. Four plates, 17 
figures. ) 
Part 8 is on the same extensive scale as the preceding ones, 
containing éleven pages of botanical description of the above and 
allied species, with a map showing the geographical distribution. 
We note the omission of any localities on Staten Island and Long 
Island, though it grows abundantly on the morainal hills in each, 
and Connecticut is also left blank on the map, though the text 
reports the plant as found there. 
The portion describing the microscopic structure was pre- 
pared by Louisa Reed Stowell, and is illustrated by cross sections 
of the root and rhizome, with ‘drawings of the starch grains found 
in the latter. It is to be regretted that the dimensions are not 
given in micromillemeters. Chemical constituents and analyses 
with the history in the Pharmacopceia complete the number. At 
the present rate of progress Messrs. Lloyd will require long lives 
to complete the series. 
Coca.—The Cultivation of. Dr. Henry H. Rusby. (Therapeutic | 
Gazette, x. (1886) pp. 14-18.) 
Dr. Rusby has been engaged for several months in the study 
of the coca-plant (Erythroxylon coca,) in the mountains of 
Bolivia, and mainly in the district of Yungas, which contains the 
principal coca districts of the Republic These are situated to | 
the east of La Paz, on the eastern side of the easternmost cordil- 
lera of the Andes, which here has an average elevation of about 
16,000 feet, and is always more or less snow-covered. He gives 
a brief description of the flora of the region, from which we ex- 
tract the following: 
Descending this slope, which is extremely steep, the first 
coca plantations are met at an altitude of about 6,400 feet, and 
occur down to the 2,000 foot level. The flora of the summit of 
the cordillera is low and mat-like. A little lower Dr. Rusby 
met with some Gentianaceew, among them one which he suggests 
may be the same as Halenia Rothrockii, Gray, of Arizona, 
accompanied by shrubby Acanthacee and Bignoniacee. At 
9,000 feet orchids and Caceolarias begin with arborescent Me/- 
