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est height attained by this tree is 50 feet. It furnishes 
the medicinal sassafras bark and wood, and from this 
again an essential oil is attainable. The deciduous 
and often jagged leaves are remarkable among those 
of Lauraceee. 
Scandix grandiflora, Linné.—Countries around the 
Mediterranean Sea. An annual herb, much liked 
there as a salad for its pleasant, aromatic taste. 
Scorzonera crocifolia, Sibthorp.— Greece. <A pe- 
rennial herb; the leaves, according to Dr. Heldreich, 
used there for a favorite salad and spinach. 
Scutia Indica, Brogniart.—South Asia. This, on 
Dr. Cleghorn’s recommendation, might be introduced 
as a thorny hedge-shrub. 
Selinum Monnieri, Linné—From East Asia now 
extending to South Europe, preferring moist places. 
An annual herb, praised by the Chinese as valuable 
for medicinal purposes, 
Smilax rotundifolia, Linné. — Eastern States of 
North America, and Canada. A prickly climber with 
deciduous foliage. An immense local use is made of 
the roots for the bowls of tobacco- pipes, clay pipes 
being there almost unknown. It is estimated that 
nearly three millions of these briar-root pipes are now 
madeayear. The reed portion of these pipes is gen- 
erally prepared from Alnus serrulata, Meehan. 
Solanum Fendleri, Asa Gray.—New Mexico. A 
new kind of potato, enduring a temperature of zero. 
Mr. Meehan’s endeavors to obtain good-sized tubers 
have as yet not been successful. The following plants 
are also spoken of by Dr. Rosenthal and others as new 
kinds of potato, perhaps to be developed through cul- 
tivation: S. demissum, Lindley, S. cardiophyllum, 
