82 ' 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 discon- 
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. 
VALERIANA SITCHENSIS 145. Stem erect glabrous pilose 
at the internodes, the lower leaves three parted, the upper ones 
joined pinnatisect, the segments ovate, acuminate coarsely den- 
tate, corymb contracted crowded. 
Root fibrous, branched, as thick as a goose quill, strong 
smelling, the odor stronger than in V. officinalis. Stems sub- 
ascending, erect, simple, round, lightly striate, smooth, only 
lanate hairy and white at the internodes, hollow. Radical leaves 
none; the lower stem leaves long petioled, trisect; the segments 
ovate, obtuse, here and there inconspicuously dentate, the teeth 
apiculate; sparingly pubescent beneath and on the margin, a 
little decurrent into the petiole. Upper leaves petiolate, pin- 
natisect; segments 5; the lateral ones subalternate, ovate, acu- 
minate, coarsely dentate, subsessile, the terminal one a little 
