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East Lyme, Conn. A pretty close search of the salt marshes in 

 this vicinity has failed to discover it at any other station,' so that 

 it must be accovinted very rare in the State. It has, however, 

 been collected by several persons on Fishers Island, N. Y., and is 

 reported from Watch Hill, R. I., just over the Connecticut State 

 line, but whether it is abundant or rare at these points T cannot 

 say. 



Desmodiujn sessilifolitmi^ Torr. & Gray. This species was 

 found in the extreme south part of the town of Norwich, Conn., 

 near the track of the N. L. N. R. R. On the north shore of 

 Tradin*^ Cove, which separates Norwich from Montville, rises a 

 steep rocky and sandy hill covered with a mixed growth of hard 

 woods, pitch pines, and hemlocks. The Desmodunn grows, not 

 very abundantly, on the warm southern slopes of this hill. More 

 or less is to be found also along the banks of the railroad which 

 here runs close along the west bank of the Thames river. Unfor- 

 tunately the herbage beside the track is mowed so frequently that 

 the plant does not get the chance to spread that it would other- 

 wise have. Whether this species occurs also on any of the neigh- 

 boring hills, or on the east side of the Thames, as seems not 



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improbable, the writer has had no opportunity to ascertain. 



CiiAS. B. Graves, M.D. 



New London. Conn. 



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Reviews of Foreign Literature. 



Stir certains Rapports entre U Arabic Heurcnsc ct L' Ancicnnc 

 Egypte, resultant dc son dernier Voyage an Yemen; par le Dr. 

 G. SchweinftirtlL M, E. Atitran, Geneve, 1890. 

 Situated on the high road to India, the southwest corner 

 of Arabia has been from time inniicmorial the rallying point 

 for all the tribes of the far east, and notwithstanding its ac- 

 cessibility and reputed character for hospitality, it has been a 

 comparatively little traveled country. The history of botanical 

 exploration in Yemen began 128 years ago, when Peter Farskal 

 joined Karsten Niebuhr's remarkable expedition and six months 

 later died in Arabia, leaving a valuable collection of scientific 

 documents, which were published by Niebuhr under the title of 

 -^^ Flore vEgyptiaco-Arabique." ForskaFs plants are now pre- 



