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of esculents in the Station reports and American Naturalist. The researches into the origin 

 and development of cultivated plants have been combined with hundreds of notes on local 

 and aboriginal uses as food, and arranged in a single alphabet under specific names of plants, 

 with bibliographical citations reduced to footnotes and a list of "Authors and titles quoted 

 in Sturtevant's notes on edible plants" appended (p. 625-667). Separate indexes to botanical 

 synonyms and vernacular names. — D. Reddick. 



863. Henriques, J. A. J. F. Correa da Serra. Broteria Ser. Bot. 16: 104-112. 1918.— 

 Jos6 Frangisco Correa da Serra was born at Serpa June 6, 1750, and died in 1823. Although 

 an ecclesiastic, he held several diplomatic positions, among them that of Minister of Portugal 

 to the United States. As naturalist he was especially interested in geology and botany, 

 publishing papers in the latter subject in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 London, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, and other journals. — M. F. Warner. 



864. Henry, Augustine. The cedars of Lebanon, References to the trees of great age 

 that form the nucleus of the historic grove. Sci. Amer. Suppl. 87: 295. 1919. (From Country 

 Life [London].) — The grove of cedars near Bsherreh has been celebrated for centuries, and 

 many travellers have counted its principal trees, which have gradually decreased in number. 

 Belon visited Mount Lebanon in 1550 and counted 28 great trees, while Sir Joseph Hooker 

 in 1860 found 15 which he judged to be the remainder of these. Both Hooker and Gadeau 

 de Kerville, who was there in 1908, measured some of the great trees, the former estimating 

 that the largest might be 2500 years old. But from a specimen in the Kew museum showing 

 235 annual rings. Hooker's 2 largest trees, with a girth of 13 feet, would be about 2330 years 

 old. — M. F. Warner. 



865. Jacob, Joseph. "Pritzel." "A florist's plea to the powers that be." Garden 83: 

 118-119. 1919. — In regard to extending the scope of the new edition of the "Iconum botani- 

 carum index" which has been undertaken by the Royal Horticultural Society. — Neil E. Stevens. 



866. Jacob, Joseph. The wheat-ear carnation. Garden 83: 300-301. 1. fig. 1919. — 

 Apropos of a paper on this subject in the Carnation Year Book for 1919, author goes back to 

 Castelli's "Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, quae continentur 

 Romae in Horto Farnesiano" (1625), and reproduces the drawing of "Caryophyllus spicatus" 

 from the 11th chapter. He also cites Linne, "Hortus Cliffortianus" (1737); Weinmann, 

 "Phytanthozaiconographia" (1739); and Bot. Mag. (1814), plate 1622, for illustrations of the 

 same phenomenon. — M. F. Warner. 



867. Jennings, O. E. John Adolph Shafer. Trillia 5: 3-7. 1919.— Born 1863, died 

 1918.— M. F. Warner. 



868. Juel, H. O. Hortus Linnaeanus. An enumeration of the plants cultivated in the 

 Botanical garden of Upsala during the Linnean period. Skrifter Svenska Linne Sallsk. 1: 1- 

 127. 1919. — Linnaeus was in charge of the garden at Upsala from 1742 until at least 1776, 

 when his son may have taken over its care. The present list of 2157 species is compiled from 

 books and papers of father and son, the titles of which are given in chronological order on 

 p. 6-8.— M. F. Warner. 



869. Kelly, H. A., and W. L. Burrage. American medical biographies, xix + 1320 p. 

 Norman, Remington Co.: Baltimore, 1920. — In selecting the more than 1900 names here 

 included the principle of the editors has been "to include every man who has in any way con- 

 tributed to the advancement of medicine in the United States or in Canada, or who, being a 

 physician, has become illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature." 

 This policy together with the senior editor's special interest in botany and medical botanists 

 makes this a valuable reference book for botanical biography. Biographical sketches are 

 given of the botanists listed below. In some cases this is the only readily available biography 

 of the subject, many of the sketches contain new material, and all are prepared by competent 



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