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Lettuce. E. L. Sturtevant. (Proc. Sixth Meeting Soc. Prom. 
Agric. Science, pp. 43, 44; see also Amer. Nat., xx., pp. 
230-233, and note in this BULLETIN, xiii., p. 44.) 
Lilium Parryi. This lily from S. California is figured in IIlus- 
tration Horticole, t. 595. 
Mechanical Injuries to Trees by Cold. T. J. Burrill. (Proc. 
Thirty-fourth. Meeting A. A. A. S., pp. 298-300, abstract.) 
Medicinal Plants. Geo. Vasey. (In Rep. Comm. Agric., 1885, 
pp. 63-75; sixteen plates.) 
Among foreign medicinal plants which may, perhaps, be suc- 
cessfully cultivated in the United States, Dr. Vasey notes the 
Poppy, which has already been tried in several States, Liquorice, 
Rhubarb, Vanilla, which he thinks may be successfully grown in 
southern Florida, and the Marsh Mallow, which has become 
locally naturalized on the coasts of New York and New England. 
Descriptions and good figures are given of the following native 
species of medicinal value: Feffersonia diphylla, Ilex Cassine, 
Rhamnus Purshianus, Cassia Marylandica, Gillenia trifoliata, 
Hamamelis Virginica, Liquidambar styraciflua, Grindelia robusta, 
Eriodictyon glutinosum, Euphorbia corollata, E. Ipecacuanhe, 
Aristolochia Serpentaria, Asarum. Canadense, Anemopsis Califor- 
nica, Arisema triphyllum, and Symplocarpus fetidus. 
Megarrhiza. Californica. A; Baldini. ‘Sul tallone di alcune 
Cucurbitacee.” (Ann. R. I. Bot. di Roma, i., p. 49, t. vi.) 
Nelumbium luteum. P. Baccarini. ‘ Osservazioni anatomiche 
sopra alcuni ricettacoli fiorali.” (Ann. R. I. Bot. di Roma, i., 
p. 82, t. xiii, fig. 11.) 
Notholena tenera, Gill.—A rare fern. L. G. Yates. (Botan. 
Gazette, xi., p. 181.) 
This fern, hitherto found only in the United States at a single 
station in southern Utah, is now reported from Santa Barbara 
Co., Gal 
Nuphar.—Revision of the North American species of. Thomas _ 
Morong. (Botan. Gazette, xi., pp. 164-169; one plate.) 
Five species are described: WV. advena, Ait., which extends 
westward to Utah, with a var. (?) minor, having flowers about _ 
an inch in diameter when expanded, from Herkimer Co., N. Y.; | 
N. rubrodiscum, n. sp., common in parts of Lake Champlain, © 
