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who have come across it by good fortune, as its first discoverer 

 did. Some of these are residents of the Island, some arc summer 

 visitors, but they have kept the secret they have surprised, as bound 

 by honor and from true regard for the beautiful little thing, whose 

 place would soon know it no more but for their kindly reticence." 

 hnca tetrahx^ L., Callima vulgaris, Salisb., and Ulex Europeans, 

 are other foreigners which seem to have found there a concjenial 

 nome. It is also interesting to note that Corema Conradii^ Torn, 

 Linncea borealis, Gronov., and Chiogenes hispidula, Torr. & Gr., 

 are found there. The speedy extermination of Epig(2a repcns, L., 

 IS deplored, and Ilex opaca. Ait,, is described as *' becoming rare, 

 as it has been cut for fire- wood/' On page 55 will be noted a 

 single typographical error, where S, sylvestris is made to do duty 

 for P^ sylvestris. 



Pollination, — Secoiidary Results of.—Y.. W. Claypole. (Report oi 

 the Botanist, U. S. Dept Ag., Rep. for 1887.) Read before the 

 Botanical Club of the A. A. A. S. at the New York meeting. 



A. H. 



Ereliini7iary Catalogue of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta reported 

 as growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of Nezv 

 York City,~^'E. L. Greene. (Pittonia, i., 184-194.) A critical 

 review, especially in regard to the principles of nomenclature 

 involved. 



Primroses.-^American. (Gard. Chron., iv., 38.) 



^onth American Drugs, — Ho?nes of Our. — H. H. Rusby. (Pharm. 



Rec, viil^ 231-233.) The conclusion of the paper continued 

 from p. 217 of the above journal. 



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Sugar- Producing Plants. — Record of Ajialyses made by au 

 of the Coimnissioner of Agriculture, under direction 

 Chemist. — (U. S. Dept. Agric, Div. of Chemistry, Bulletin 

 No. 18.) The plants described as experimented upon are 



Sorghum and Sugar Cane. 

 Trinidad Royal Botanic Gardens, and their Work for i\ 



Annual Report on the. — J. H. Hart, F.L.S., Supt. A sketch 



of the history and administration of the gardens with botanical 



naemoranda, mostly economic ; illustrated. 

 Umhellifer(2.—Some Notes on Western— IIL—] ohn M. Coulter 



and J. N. Rose. (Bot. Gaz., xiii. 208-2 ii.) 



The new species described are Peucedanum Austtn(E, P. 



