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esculent properties, life history and composition. Much of theif 

 information has been derived from correspondence with Dr. Valery 

 Havard, and his letters are freely abstracted. An analysis of the 

 root made by Professor Trimble of Philadelphia indicates the 

 presence of much mucilaginous matter and a corresponding defi- 

 ciency of starch. Common names given for the plant are Chita, 

 Spatulum, Racine amere, Bitter root, Mountain rose. The atten- 

 tion of the French investigators was directed to Lewisia by a 

 memorandum in the paper on " Food products of the North Ame- 

 ricans Indians," in the Agricultural Report for 1870. 



N. L. B. 

 Lichenes Oregonenses. J. Miiller. (Flora, 1889, i62-'i^66). 



Mountains, Washing 



J 



LeptO' 



M 



new. 



Call ft 



M 



of Plants Collected by Dr. Edtvard Palmer in Lower 

 tia in 1889. Geo. Vasey and J. N. Rose, (Proc. U. S. 

 IS. 1888, 527-536). The following new species are de- 

 scribed : Hosackia {Syrmatiiim) Watsoni, H. Pahneri, Ribes Pal- 

 wen, Applopappns fascicnlatns, Senecio peninsularis, Gilia 

 {Siphonella) laxa, Pltacelia {Eutocct) Palmeri^ Solannni Pahneri, 

 Anttrr/nman Watsoni, Viguiera microphylla, Encelia laciniata^ 

 E, Palmeri and Krynitzkia Grayi. 



Magnolia glanca in its Most Northern Home. J. G. Jack. 

 (Garden and Forest, ii. 363, 364). 

 A description of its habitat and the plants growing with it in 



the _.._,____, 

 Rosa Engehnanni. S. W 



Mass 



Marsh., var. plena. G. N. Best. (Garden and 



Forest, ii. 370). 



Mr 



IS apparently the Rosa Pennsylvanica plena of Marshall. He 

 does not consider it as specifically distinct from R. humilis and 

 hence proposes the above name. 



of Wheat and Oats J. C. Arthur. (Bull. Agric. Exper. 



Sta. Indiana, No. 28, pp. 23. illustrated). 



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