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Directions for Collecting Recent and Fossil Plants. F. Hz. 
Knowlton. (Part B. Bull. 39, U. S. Nat. Mus. Pamph. pp. 
46, illustrated, Wash. D. C., 1891). 
Erythrina crista-galli. (Gard. xl. 516, with colored plate). 
Hlora of the Cape Region of Baja California, T.S. Brandegee. 
(Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. iii. 108-182 ; also reprinted). 
This work is the result of two trips made by the author during 
the auttmn of 1890. The list includes six hundred and seventy- 
nine species and varieties, of which about thirty are fully described 
as new and some twenty-five more listed as such, but not described. 
Filices Mexicane.—lIl, IV. (Gard. and For. iv. 519, 520, fig. 
80., 555, 556, f. 88.) 
Contains description and figure of Notholena rigida n. sp. 
and Pellea Pringlei n. sp. 
Forest Vegetation of the Upper Mississippi.—lll. (Gard. and 
For. iv. 531, 532). 
Helenium autumnale, (Gard. Chron. x. f. 56). 
Helenium autumnale. (Am. Gard. xii. 683, illustrated). 
Hypericum Buckleyi. (Gard, and For. iv. 581, fig. 91). 
Index to Economic Products of the Vegetable Kingdom in 
Famaica. | 
This is a list of the plants most deserving attention for their 
medicinal properties or economic products. One hundred and 
thirty-eight are native to Jamaica and ninety-four naturalized or 
cultivated. The habitat of each plant, as well as its properties 
and uses, are given, but nothing is said of its value or importance, 
Present or prospective on the island. Twenty-three of the species 
are also indigenous to the United States, from common plants 
like Evigeron Canadense and Lycopodium clavatum to subtropi-. 
cal trees like Prosopis juliflora, Rhizophora Mangle and Carica 
Papaya. The presence here of Prosopis juliflora (Mezquite) 
brings to the mind its wide dissemination in the new world, from 
California to the mouth of the Rio Grande, and from Colorado, 
through Mexico, to Panama, Nicaragua, Chili, Buenos Ayres and 
the West Indies. In Jamaica this tree is common and the wood 
largely used. | | a 
Besides the ordinary garden vegetables, which are not included, 
at least sixty more of the plants enumerated are cultivated or 
