MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 119 
doxa, a native of Natal. Another noteworthy addition to 
the cycad collection is Microcycas calocoma, a_native of 
Western Cuba, presented to the Garden by the New York 
Botanical Garden. In its native haunts this tree attains a 
maximum height of twenty feet, and bears at its summit a 
magnificent crown of large pinnate leaves. In general its 
appearance is similar to that of the common “funeral,” or 
‘Bago palm” (Cycas revoluta). 
The cotton field in the Herbaceous Tract, which was men- 
tioned in the May BULLETIN, is now at its best. The plants 
are stout specimens, measuring up to five and one-half feet 
in height, and the miniature eld presents perhaps as good 
a growth of cotton as can be found on good southern planta- 
tions. At the tips the mallow-like flowers may still be seen, 
and slightly below these the miniature bolls, at first hidden 
in the ravoltints, but soon enlarging and exceeding the latter. 
And lastly, near the ground, a few bolls have already opened, 
showing the mass of white cotton fibers within, curled up and 
attached to the oily seeds at the center. 
STATISTICAL INFORMATION FOR AUGUST, 1913. 
GARDEN ATTENDANCE: 
Total number of visitors..... SOR OG une gree eee rere ge bo 2 3 
PLANT ACCESSIONS: 
Total number of plants donated.....-...--..-.--++.+++- 65 
LIBRARY ACCESSIONS: : 
Total number of books and pamphlets bought... .. bade as 36 
Total number of books and pamphlets donated........... 211 
HERBARIUM ACCESSIONS: 
By Exchange— 
University of Pennsylvania —Scrophulariaceae from the 
Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain..............++.+--- 94 
By Purchase— 
W. P. Carr—Phanerogams of Northwestern South Dakota, 
Wuseicles 2 and 88 t5 oe se i a ee eens 100 
Th. Oswald Wiegel —Plants of Kamerun, collected by 
‘Dr. G. Zenker, Cent. TIT......-.- 0. esse eee e eee ee ees 100 
By Gift— 
C. Conzatti—Plants of Mexico..........---+.-++-+seeee 2 
§. L. Thompson—Hordeum jubatum L. from Manitoba. .. 1 
R. M. Harper—Plants of Alabama and Arkansas.......- 10 
J. H. Moss—Plants of Missouri........-.--.+++-+e--+: 3 
H. vonSchrenk—Plants of Michigan, Oregon, Missouri and 
Pennsylvania ......---.6ese ese re ener cere ec ceeeeees 52 
G. R. Hill, Jr—Utah Plants.........------+seeeeeere 7 
