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ent-leaved species, while R. CaroUniana is thin-leaved and 

 deciduous; and its nearest allies are shrubs from which it is 

 geographically more widely sundered, namely, B. hetulcefolia 

 of a more remote section of New Mexico or Arizona, and R. 

 Purshiana of Oregon and Washington; both these being 

 deciduous. 



By the records of the herbaria — such records as labels 

 make, when bearing wrong names — the species has even been 

 attributed to a still more remote northeasterly range than is 

 here accorded it; for the Long Island specimens under this 

 name are plainly those of R. Frangida, the Old World 

 species, now freely conceded to our northern flora, as natur- 

 alized from Europe. In many parts of the south the shrub 

 is plentiful, though nowhere so at the northeast. In Louis- 

 iana and Mississippi it is abundant, and according to Father 

 Langlois it is known to the French speaking inhabitants 

 there as " Cafe sauvage," or wild coffee; an appellation for- 

 merly given to R. tomentella and R. Californica, at a time, 

 when it was pretended^ that their coffee-like pyrenes might 

 become a fair substitute for coffee. 



THE ALPINE FLORA OF MT. SHASTA. 

 By Alice Eastwood. 



The geographical distribution of plants and animals has 

 ever been attractive to naturalists and travelers; the wide dif- 

 fusion of some genera and species, the singular isolation of 

 others will always excite interest and inquiry. Now-a-days 

 the subject is so connected with the geological history of the 

 earth and the evolution of species^ that it is a duty to note the 

 physical features of a country when studying its flora or 

 fauna. 



Throughout the west no two sections of country are more 

 interesting to the botanist than the mountain -summits and 



