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contribution of great interest, and one which we venture to say 
will cause surprise to almost every one who has not madea ge | 
cial study of the subject. | 
Polygala in North America—The Genus. Wm. E. Wheelock | 
(Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, ii. No. 4, pp. 109-152). : 
This paper completes Vol. II of our ‘“‘ Memoirs.” There has | 
been no monograph of the North American Polygalas since their 
treatment in Torrey and Gray’s Flora of North America in 1838- : 
1840. Dr. Wheelock has studied the specimens contained in 
the larger American herbaria, and Dr. Britton has examined 
most of the types contained in European collections and has sup. 
plied notes thereon. Thirty-eight species are recognized. PY 
Reynoldsie, Chapm., is not regarded as distinct trom P. Rugelit, 
Shutt.; P. ambigua, Nutt., is maintained as a species rather than 
a variety of P. vertictllata; P. viridescens, L. is the name ace 
cepted for P. sanguinea, L., having priority of place on the page 
of the Species Plantarum, these two Linnzan species being 
identical; P. Mariana, Mill (1768) replaces P. fastigiata, | 
Nutt. (1818) ; P. Lindheimeri, A. Gray, var. parvifolia, isa new 
variety from Arizona; P. Tweedy, Britton, is a new species from | 
Texas. 4 
In spite of the most careful proof correction, two vexatious | 
errors have occurred in the paper. On page 146, under P. cu- | 
cullata, P. Californica, Nutt. is the name meant to be used as | 
the date of it (1840) as against that of P. cucullata, Benth (1849), 
indicates, and on page 149 P. ovattfolia, DC., is unio 
spelled P. ovalifolia, DC. | 
Rose Acacia—The Large- Flowered. (Am. Gard. xii. 739, 740, | 
illustrated). iq 
Contains a figure of Robinia hispida. = 
Rosa Carolina, (Meehan’s Month. i. 84, illustrated). 4 
Sarracenia purpurea. ‘Meehan’s Month. i. 81, 82, Pl. 6). a 
Sisal Hemp in the Doha and Florida. (Bull. No. 24, Bot. | 
Dept. Jamaica, 10-15). 
Some Strange Names among Indigenous and Other Drugs | 
' (Pharm. Rec. xii. 377). 
The following popular names are noted: “ Coquetta” of 
“ Bogota Bark” for Cinchona condaminea ; “Cammock”” for Ono- | 
