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of the mountain species (Prunus demissa), and are large and 
ediblé. Whenever I could do so, I always collected a handful of 
_ them, for eating, as I pursued my'search for plants. At one 
house where I stopped for dinner, I was treated to choke cherry 
pie, which was very palatable indeed! The species at Long 
Pine is identical in every respect with that found in abundance 
in the Black Hills, and at Fort Robinson near the line between 
Nebraska and Wyoming. 
The Golden Currant (Rides aureum) is another mountain 
species which extends eastward to Long Pine. I found it fruit- 
ing profusely. Likewise, the pretty little shrub, Rhws aromatica, 
var. ¢rzlobata, is another westerner which [ noted in full fruit in 
this famous cajion. 
There are many other plants which show that here the two 
floras meet and overlap, but these given are probably the most 
striking. 
Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 
Absorption of Aniline Colors by living Cells.—Douglas H. Camp- 
bell. (Bot. Gazette, xii., pp. 193, 194.) 
Andromeda floribunda.—Pursh. (Garden, xxxi., p. 612; illus 
trated.) 
Asperifolieg—Some West American, I].—Edward L. Greene. 
(Pittonia, i., pp. 55-60.) 
The new classification of certain Borraginaceous plants, pro- 
posed by Professor Greene, institutes two new genera, viz. : 
Oreocarya, of nine species made up from Eritrichium and Kry- 
nitzia, and Eremocarya of two species, both included by Dr. 
Gray in Eritrichium. Piptocalyx of Torrey is restored to gen- 
eric rank and given two species—the original P. circumscissus 
and P. dichotomus, Greene. 
Asa Gray. (Gard. Chron., ii., June 25th, ’87, pp. 836, 837.) 
(Bot. Gazette, xii., p. 203.) (Gard. Month., xxix, p. 252.) 
All give notices in full of the various degrees and honorary 
Orations delivered at Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh in his 
honor during the month of June. They are particularly happy 
in their sentiment and warm in their praise. He was pronounced 
with the degree of Doctor of Science from Cambridge, “ Florx 
