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Plants from the Andes — Neiv. Edmund G. Baker. (Journ. Bot. 

 xxviii. i6r, 172; t. 207). 

 Helosis Whymperi from Ecuador is described and figured ; a 



list of four fung[i, among them Cantharelliis Whynjiperi^ a new 



species from the same locality, a description of which is given 



by Messrs. Massee and Murray. 



Provisional List of the Plants of the Bahama Islands. John Gar- 

 diner and L. J. K. Brace, with notes and additions by Charles 

 S. DoIIey. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1889, 349-426; 

 reprinted). 



This list, already mentioned in the BULLETIN, enumerates 

 621 species of plants as indigenous, introduced and cultivated in 

 the Bahamas. It is based mainly on a list made by Mr. Gardi- 

 ner, while scientific adviser to the Board of Agriculture of the 

 Bahamas, in 1886, and on a catalogue of the plants of New Prov- 

 idence, made some years previously by Mn Brace. The com- 

 mon names of the plants are given, as well as memoranda of 

 their actual or supposed economic uses. Some few additions 

 have been made by Professor Dollcy and others from Mr. Her- 

 rick's collection on Abaco and adjacent islands. (Johns Hopkins 

 Univ. Circ. vi. 46). 



As the extensive collections now being made by Dr. and Mrs. 



Northrop will soon be available for study, it may be worth while 

 in this connection to indicate the material now available from 

 which a reasonably complete enumeration of Bahaman plants 

 may be brought together : 



(i) A few species were collected by Catesby early in the i8th 

 century, and some of them figured in his ** Natural History of 





CaroHna, 1754- 



(2) A collection of about 100 species was made by Mr. Wm. 

 Cooper, for Dr. Torrey, at New Providence, in 1859, and are 

 preserved, with a partial manuscript hst by Dr. Torrey, in the 

 Columbia College Herbarium. 



(3) Grisebach's '' Plora of the British West Indian Islands," 

 1864, records something less than 200 species from Bahama, 

 based mainly on a collection made by a Mr. Swainson, and trans- 

 mitted to Sir Wm. J. Hooker. These plants are at Kew. 



(4) Mr. L. J. K. Brace^ one of the authors of the work herq 



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