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for anyone having the least knowledge of that language would 

 sound both i's. If both i's are retained, according to the rules 

 of the Vienna Congress, then I take it the word should be 

 sounded Wilsonii, according to the usual rules of Latin pro- 

 nunciation. Professor Bailey appears to me to be combining 

 in these words English and Latin features, which rather seems 

 to stultify the system of scientific nomenclature. I think the 

 words should either have only one i, despite the rules of the 

 Vienna Congress, and be pronounced WUsoni, or else be 

 treated as Latin and sounded Wilsonii. I may add that I 

 have discussed the matter with the editors of Gray's Manual. 

 and find that their views and mine are entirely concurrent on 

 this matter. I think it is one which sooner or later your Com- 

 mittee will have to face, and hence I submit to you these data. 



AN ADDITION TO OUR FOOD PLANTS 



By J. C. Nelson, 



T take pleasure in reporting an addition to the list of useful 

 -** plants, which is unique in being also probably the first 

 reported occurrence of the species in the United States. 



\\ nile on a collecting trip along the Oregon coast in the 

 vicinity of Newport, Lincoln County, in August, 1015, I found 

 growing on the beach at the base of the cliffs on Yaquina Head 

 two specimens of a plant that was entirely new to me. It was 

 past the time of flowering, but had a raceme of globular pods 

 about the size and shape of peas, and large, thick glaucous 

 leaves like those of cabbage. Beyond the fact that it belonged 

 to the Cruciferae, I could make nothing of it. On sending a 

 specimen to the Gray Herbarium, it was determined as Crambc 

 maritiina L., the "sea-kale" or "sea cabbage," a plant native 

 to the west coast of Europe and the shores of the Black and 

 Baltic Seas. I supposed that it was a mere waif on our coast, 



