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is the attempt to present a full synonomy of each form, and as lilies 

 have been in cultivation from the earliest times, not a few of them 

 are enveloped in a perfect maze of names. Thus L. biilbiferiim, of 

 Linnaeus, has been known by not less than fifteen names, and 

 L. clegans, of Thunberg, has seventeen synonyms. Many others 

 have from five to ten synonyms. Among such an array of names it 

 has been necessary to change a number in current use and in certain 

 cases to give new ones. The paper, which will do much to stimulate 

 a study of this beautiful genus, closes with a full index to all names 

 used. 



Are any of the Gentians parasitic? Have transplanted G. villosa 

 {ochroleiica), but I have never succeeded in making them live. Last 

 season noticed that the roots seemed parasitic. In the several late 

 lists of poisonous plants there is no mention made of Solannm Caro- 

 linensc. I know of two cases of poisoning by these berries, which in 

 one case came very near being fatal, it was thought. A family of 

 five in Edmonson county, Ky. , ate the berries, that were gathered at 

 dusk, growing near the tomatoes (small yellow variety). They were 

 cooked and eaten the next day, making all who ate of them violently ill. 

 A little three-year-old boy at this_place ate the berries and was sick for 

 days. I find the Tragia macrocarpa quite as irritable to the skin as 

 any of the nettles. A friend who sutTered much by the irritation 

 caused by touching okra and squash finds that the application of cream 

 of tartar is the only relief. This might answer for the biirning caused 

 by other vegetable poisons. I seem to be an immune from ivy and 

 all vegetable poison save nettle and Tragia. I mention this, as 

 writers speak of this irritation as of such short duration.— -5ct</?V F. 

 Price, Bozvliiig Green, Ky. 



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A Guide to thk Wild Flowers. By Alice Lounsberry; with 64 

 colored and 100 black and white plates and 54 diagrams by Mrs 

 Ellis Rowan; with introduction by Dr. N. L. Britton. Pp. i-xvii. 

 1-347. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Co. $2.50. 



The interest that has been awakened in recent years in the 

 popular study of plants and animals is very gratifying to all true 

 lovers of nature. This interest has been in large measure incited 

 and stimulated by a number of well-written and well-illustrated books, 

 and among them all the work before us will stand, in many respects, 

 at the head. 



In preparing a popular work on wild flowers, the author is con- 



