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Brinton.] ^"^ [Jan. 15, 



The following species are found on tlie Andean summits from New 

 Grenada to Peru or Bolivia : 



Ranunculus Peruvianus. 

 Sisymbrium canescens. 

 Cerastium Andinum. 

 Arenaria alsinoides. 

 Colobantlius Quitensis. 

 Trifolium amabile. 

 Alchemilla orbiculata. 



" Sibbaldiie folia. 



" tripartita. 



" hirsuta. 

 Acseua elongata. 

 Ottoa cenanthoides. 

 Tauschia riudicaulis. 

 Lobelia nana. 

 Halenia elata. 

 Saracba umbellata. 

 Mimulus glabratus. 

 Veronica serpyllifolia. 

 Alnus acuminata. 

 " Jorullensis. 

 Sisyrincbium scabrum. 



— about ten per cent, of the entire flora. In view of the distance which 

 separates the two regions — some 900 to 2400 miles — this is, after all, not 

 such a small number ; indeed, the wonder is rather that so many alpine 

 forms should have found it possible, in the region of the tropics, to cross 

 the depression of the Isthmus of Panama. 



Observations on the Chinantec Language of Mexico. 



By Daniel G. Brinton, M.D. 



(^Read before the American Philosophical Society, January ij, i8g2.~) 



Name. — The folk-name Chinanteca, plural of chinantecatl, is a 

 word in the Nahuatl language meaning, " inhabitants of Chinantia," 

 which latter signifies a spot enclosed by cane hedges or palisades. 

 By extension, the common term for "village" was chinamitl, as 

 they were usually protected by such b'ght defenses. The Chinan- 

 tecs, therefore, as a nation, are known to us only by the name 

 applied by their neighbors, the Aztecs, to their chief town. 



