127 a 
(Chenopodium auricomum, Lind.); Balm, (Melissa officinalis, L.) 
species of Basel/a used as spinage plants; Basil, (species of Oct- 
mum); and Beans, (Phaseolus vulgaris and P nana.) 
Horticultural Terminology.—l. L. H. Bailey, Jr. (Am. Gar- 
den, May, 1887.) 
Immigration of Animals and Plants.—Fred. Brendel, M.D., 
(Bull. Sci. Assoc., Peoria, Ill., 1887, pp. 88-92.) 
Indicative Plants.—R. W. Raymond, (Trans. Amer. Inst. Min. 
Eng., St. Louis meeting, October, 1886; advance sheets.) 
A very interesting paper dicussing the various plants which 
are supposed to be indicative of metallic minerals. Figures are 
given of the zinc-violet (Viola Calaminaria) of Europe, the 
“lead plant” (Amorpha canescens) and of Eriogonum ovalifolium 
of the Rocky Mountain region, which Dr. Raymond thinks may 
be destined to bear the title of “silver plant.” The interesting 
fact is recorded that in pink-flowered plants of the Eriogonum, 
the presence of arsenic was proved by chemical analyses made by — 
Mrs. Richards, while in yellow-flowered ones arsenic was not 
found. 
Leo Lesquereux.—Sketch of, with portrait. By L. R. McCabe. 
(Pop. Sci. Month., xxx., pp. 835-840.) 
List of Works on North American Fungi, with the Exception of 
Schizomycetes, published before 1887.—WW. G. Farlow and 
William Trelease. (Harvard Univ. Bull. iv., pp. 444-458; to 
be continued.) 
This is the first part of a most useful and voluminous biblio- - 
graphical work, which we hope to note at greater length when it 
shall have been completed. The titles are under authors’ names, 
which are arranged alphabetically. 
Local Names of Plants —C. F. Wheeler. (Pharm. Era., i., 
p- 25.) 
Mr. Wheeler notes that Cicuta maculata is known as 
“Fletcher Weed,” in Worcester Co., Mass., from the circumstance 
that in the early history of Oakham a woman named Fletcher, 
driven by hunger, ate some of the roots, which caused her 
death. 
