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ond year, is grown from cuttings, and is considered one of the most 

 valuable cultures of the country. Plants have been secured and are 

 now growing both from the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and also 

 direct from Aden, Arabia, through Mr. C. K. Moser, the American 

 consul, who has furnished an interesting report on the industry. It 

 is quite probable that this plant will grow in our southwestern 

 country, but until the chemists and animal physiologists have closely 

 examined the action of the alkaloid it contains, it will not be distri- 

 buted to experimenters. 



Picea breweriana of Oregon and California, which because of its 

 appearance may be called the veiled spruce, is one of the rarest of 

 all the spruces, and the seeds, though sought after many times, have 

 so rarely been obtained that the distribution of more than a pound 

 of fresh seed, received from Miss Alice Eastwood, is of unusual 

 interest. 



The nomenclature in this inventory and the notes on geographical 

 distribution have been prepared in the Office of Taxonomic and 

 Range Investigations by Mr. H. C. Skeels, under the direction of 

 Mr. Frederick V. Coville. The inventory was prepared by Miss 

 Mary A. Austin, of this office. 



David Fairchild, 



Agricultural Explorer in Giiarge. 



Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 



Washington, D. C, April 2 4, 1911. 



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