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Index to Recent American Botanical Literature. 



275, plate 



Abutilon vcxillarmm. W. W. (Garden, xxxvii. 274, 



745)- 



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Anemone Hepatica.— Dates of Flozvcring of. Artliur Plollick. 



(Proc. Nat. Sci. Assn. of S. I., March 13, 1890). 



The earHest recorded dates of blossomhig for this species on 

 Staten Island, are tabulated for the past twenty years, from 

 which it appears that February i6th, of the present year, is by 

 far the earliest during the entire period. 



ptarniico 



5 



if Genera in the National Herbarium. — The Sys- 



9f F. V. Coville. (Bot. Gaz. xv. GS, 6c,). 



Soldo. H. H. Rusby. 



March 



illustrated). 



Under this caption is an account and picture of Pcumns 

 boldus, Molina. 



Botanical Study.— I\Tcthods of. W. J. ikal. (Garden & Forest, 



»!■ 174, 175)- 

 Campanula rotjuidifolia. (Garden, xxxvii. 225, illustrated). 

 Cardon Forest.— A. T. S. Brandagee. (Zoe, i. 26). 



" Cardon " is the popular name by which the Mexicans des- 

 ignate Cereus Pringlei and C.pecten-aborigimivi. 

 Crossosoma. Frank H. Vaslit. (Zoe, i. 27). 



In this article the statement is made that : " it is doubtful 

 whether the second species, C. Bigelovii is anything more than a 

 depauperate variety of the first," {C. Californicuin). 



Cypress of Montezuma. — The. (Garden & Forest, iii. 150, fig. 28). 

 An account of a famous tree of Taxodium distiehum, crrow- 

 ing near the city of Mexico. Its height is about 170 feet, and 

 girth about 50 feet. Its age is computed at about 700 years. 

 Many gigantic individuals of this species are known 

 Mexico and Central America, where they grow in comparatively 

 dry ground, and without the '* knees" which are such prominent 

 features in the more northern swamps. The figure represents 

 the base of the trunk. 



Cypress. — The Deciduous. (Gard. Chron. vii. 324, figs. 49 and 

 50, and Plate). 



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