6 . Muhlenbergia,. Volume 4 
COMPILATIONS 
Under this head it is our intention to publish each month, 
or as often as space may permit, either entire reprints or synop- 
ses of articles which appear in journals not accessible to those 
who have limited library facilities.’ Other botanists are cord- 
ially invited to contribute, both by sending material for this de- 
partment, or by pointing out where it may be obtained. 
OBSERVATIONS SUR LA VEGETATION DE L’ILE DE SITCHA, PAR 
M. BONGARD. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 2: 1832. 
This paper is of special interest on account of the supposed 
occurrence of species first described therein within the western 
boundaries of the United States, either in the moist regions of 
the northwest coast at low elevations, or on the high interior 
mountains. ‘The custom of citing the title of the paper instead 
of the publication in which it occurred is now happily discou- | 
tinued. ‘The citation ‘Veg. Sitch.” refers to this paper. The 
figures after the specific name means the page number on which 
the description was originally printed. Translated from the 
Latin. 
PINUS MERTENSIANA 163. Leaves (solitary) linear ob- 
tuse, attenuate at base into the petiole, entire; scales of the cone 
reniform entire. 
Much branched; the branches and branchlets, with the fal- 
len leaves, strongly tuberculate. Leaves solitary, approximate, 
linear, attenuate at the base into a minute petiole, obtuse, plane 
above, with a prominent midrib beneath, entire, 5 lines long, 
and a little less than a line wide. Cones solitary, sessile, ob- 
long, obtuse, 1% inches more or less. Scales reniform, entire, 
5 lines and more wide. 
PINUS SITCHENSIS 164. Leaves (solitary) linear subtetrag- 
onal acuminate mucronate, scales of the cone oblong obtuse 
slenderly denticulate. 
