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nal description, and as our eastern material is too scanty to afford 
any clue to the habits of the species it was naturally repeated in 
the article in question. C. L. PoLrarb. 
A Request. Iwill be greatly indebted to any reader of the 
-Butvetin who can collect for me several good specimens of any 
species of Petalostemon, especially fruiting ones, and among them 
at least one with root as near complete as possible. | am en- 
gaged in revising the genus, hereafter to be known as Kuhnistera, 
and need good fresh specimens from as many localities as possible. 
Return will be made in specimens of Texas, Virginia or North 
Carolina plants. I desire to receive communications on the sub- 
ject. ‘ A. A. HELLER. 
411 W. WALNUT STREET, LANCASTER, PA. 
Note on the Genus Enslenia Nutt. This generic as ily : 
lished by Nuttall in 1818 (Gen. 1: 164), is a homonym, it having 
been used by Rafinesque one year previously (FI. Ludov. 35) . 
for a different plant. Rafinesque calls ‘attention to this fact : 
Am. Month. Mag. 4: 192 (1819) and proposes to substitute for! 
the name Ampelanus, but he neither cites species nor gives a hee 
scription. In order to maintain Rafinesque’s very suggest” 
name, I here designate the species: 
AMPELANUS ALBIDUS (Nutt). 
Enslenia albida Nutt. Gen. 1: 164. N. L. BritT0N. 
Index to Recent Literature relating to American Botany.” 
‘Atkinson, Geo. F. Offitrichum, a new genus of mucedinous ro 
Bot. Gaz. 19: 244, 245, p/. 237. 20 Je. 1894. Ay 
Bailey, L. H. Some recent Chinese Vegetables. Bull. Corneil Agr = 
_ Exp. Sta. 67, pp. 32,7. zo, pl. 2. Je. 1894. 
Several little known Chinese garden vegetables are reported upon, 
able being the Pe-Tsai or Chinese cabbage. 7 
Baker, J.G. Caraguata conifera, Curt. Bot. Mag. 50: ¢ 7399 — 
Je. 1894. 
_ Native of Ecuador. 
the most val: : 
* It is requested that omissions from this record be communicated to the ne 
