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Notes on North American Trees — XVIL C. S. Sargent. (Garden 



and Forest, lii. 260). 



The author takes for discussion in this article the West Indian 

 Birch or Gum Elemi, which is native in southern Florida. In the 

 first addition of the '' Species Plantarum/' it is described under the 

 name Pistacia Siviarnha^ but in the second edition tlie ijcnus 



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quin's figures of Bursera, although the work in which this appears 

 bears the date 1763. The author considers it probable that 

 Jacquin submitted his figure and description to Linnaeus' before 

 they were actually published. The name Bnrsera Siniarnha is 

 therefore proposed for this tree. 

 Notes on West American Plants. Katherine Brandegee. Zoe, i. 



82, 83). 



New, or little known localities, in California are described for 



ten species and varieties of plants. 



Pachysandra procunihcns. (Am. Garden, xi. 346, illustratetl). 



Parry — Charles Christopher. C. R. Orcutt. (West. Am. Sci. 



vii. 1-5, illustrated). 



Biography and portrait 

 Palmerella. Edward Palmer. (West. Am. Sci. vit. 8, 9). 



A little controversy is started in regard to priority in the dis- 

 covery of Palmerella debilis, Gray, and incidentally as to its 

 generic position and whether we should know it as Lobelia Roth- 

 rockii or L. Dunnii. 

 Pcrityle — Preliminary Notes on. J. N. Rose. (Bot. Gaz. xv. 



1 12-1 19, PL xiii ; also reprinted). 



The following new species and varieties arc described . P, 

 Brandegeana, P, Rothroekii, P. Grcenei, P. Soeorrosensis^ P, 



Emory 



Enlarged representa- 



tives of the akenes are given for P, Fiichii, P. Brandegeana, P, 

 Californicay P, euneata, P, microglossa, P. Efnoryi^ var, Orentii, 

 P. Greeneiy P. Grayi, and P. Socorrosensis. 

 Pimis glabra, Carl Mohn (Garden and Eorest, iii. 295). 



A popular account of this pine in its native habitat and the 

 vegetation accompanying it. 



