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Under the direction of the Board of Trustees, the ninth 
annual report of the Missouri Botanical Garden is presented 
to the public. The eighth report was issued September 9, 
1897, Advance copies of Mr. Thompson’s paper on Lem- 
naceae were issued November 1, 1897, and advance copies 
of Dr. Glatfelter’s paper on Salix were issued December 
24, 1897. 
The reports of the Garden are sent to scientific institu- 
tions and journals, in exchange for publications or speci- 
mens desirable for the library, herbarium, or plant-houses 
of the Garden. So far as possible, reprints of the botanical 
articles which they contain are sent to botanists occupied 
with a study of the same subjects. 
Any of the Garden publications not out of print may be 
purchased, at approximately the cost of publication, from 
Dr. A. E. Foote, of Philadelphia, The Cambridge Botani- 
cal Supply Co., of Cambridge, Mass., W. Wesley & Son, 
of London, R. Friedlander & Sohn, of Berlin, or the 
undersigned. A list of publications to the end of 1896 
was printed at page 221 of the eighth report. 
Wo. TRELEASE. 
St. Louis, Mar. 9, 1898. 
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