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The journal will not be the organ of any society, nor for the ad- 

 vancement of any particular school of botany, but will be as broad in 

 its scope as the broadest conception of the vegetable kingdom. Every 

 one will be welcome to representation in its pages, and to the end 

 that it inay attain the inaximum of usefulness, it is earnestly re- 

 quested that any one who has an interesting or curious bit of infor- 

 mation along the above lines, will not fail to send it to the editor. 

 What has interested and instructed you may interest and aid others. 



The plan for a journal of this character was formulated by the 

 editor in 1895, and an outline presented before the Botanical Club of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the Buf- 

 falo meeting. It was not deemed expedient for the Club to adopt an 

 official organ, and maturer judgment has approved the wisdom of this 

 course, both from the standpoint of the Club and of the journal, there- 

 fore, as indicated above, the journal will be thoroughly independent. 

 That there is a field for a journal of this character is attested, not only 

 by the well-known botanists and investigators who have generously 

 consented to assist in its management, but by expressions of warm ap- 

 proval or promises of assistance from many distinguished students 

 and writers throughout the country. 



NOTES fl^D NEV5. 



The British Isles have only a single native oak ( Oiicrcns Robitr), 

 while the District of Columbia has not less than nineteen species, and 

 an unknown number of hybrids. 



In the recently issued fascicle of 'R.ichier's Pla7it(e Enropcea, which 

 is being continued by Dr. Gurke, there are enumerated as natives of 

 Europe no less than 226 species, varieties, or named and recognizable 

 hybrids of the genus Salix (Willows). 



Mr. F. V. Coville, botanist of the Department of Agriculture, 

 has just issued as a contribution from the National Herbarium, an in- 

 teresting account of the plants used by the Klamath Indians of Oregon. 

 No less than eighty-eight species are used by them, either as food or 

 in their home life. For the convenience of students of ethnology Mr. 

 Coville has given an alphabetical list of the Indian names of these 

 plants, with the scientific equivalent. 



Mr. J. B. Hatcher of Princeton University has recently returned 

 from an eighteen months' collecting expedition in the extreme south- 

 ern portion of South America. The primary object of his visit was 



