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Goancsc Ipecac. H. IT. Rusby. (Reprint from Drug. Bull, Jul}^ 

 1890, illustrated). 

 Under this title is a description and plate of Naregamia alata^ 



\ V. & A . 



History of Garden Vegetables, E. L. Sturtcvant, (Am. Nat. 



XXIV. 629-646). 



This contribution to the subject contains notes on **Rocket 



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Salad/' [Brassica eruea) ; '* Rosemary," ( Rosonariiius offic- 

 iNalis)] *'Rue/' {Rata graveoIeus^\ '*Ruta-baga/' (/>ra.wr^ A^^?/^- 

 brassica)] ''Saffron/' {^Crocus sativus)\ /*Sage/* {Salvia offic- 

 inalis.)\ ''Salsify/' {Tragopogon pon^ifolias) ] "Samphire/' Crith- 

 nuDU mariti))itu}i)\ "Savory" {Satureja sp.) ; Savoy Cabbage, 

 {Brassica oleracea hnllata) ; Scarlet Riuiner Bean, {Phascohis 

 multijlonis) ; Scolymus, {Scoly})ins Hispafticns) \ Scorzonera 

 {ScorBonera Hispanicix)\ "Scurvy Grass," {Cochlearia officinalis, 



"Sea Kale/' {Cranihe niari t i ^na) diwd "Shallot," {Alliuni asca- 

 loniaim). 



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Call ft 



j. N. Rose (Contr. Nat. 



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Herb., No. T., 1-8). 



An enumeration of two hundred and forty-seven species, 

 many of them rare. No new species are described. 

 List of Plants collected by Dr. Edivard Palmer, iji 1889, at La- 

 goon Head, Cedros Island, San Benito Island, Guadaltipc 

 Island and at the Head of the Gulf of California, Geo. Vascy 

 and J. N. Rose. (Contrib. Nat. Herb., No. I, 9-28). 

 An enumeration of several hundred species including descrip- 

 tions by Mr. Rose of new ones in the genera Sisynibrinm, Encelia, 



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PJiacelia^ Nicotiana, Eschscholtzia^ Splucralcea and Hcmizonia^ 



and EupJiorJiia Pojidii, Millspaugh. 



Mosses of Staten Island — Preliminary list of the. E. G. Britton. 



(Proc. Nat. Sci. Assn, S. I., Special No. 10, July, 1890). 



In this list arc enumerated five species and varieties of 

 Sphagna and ninety-six MuscI, In a brief head-note the author 

 says that the specimens upon which the list is founded were col- 

 lected during a period of about eight years, and it is to be con- 

 sidered as very nearly complete, but additions may be looked for 

 in the genera Bryum^ Barbula and Orthotrichum, 



