100 BOTANICAL GAZETTE, [ April 
be furnished. The stock of dupkosies belonging to the Department of 
Agriculture has during the past winter been labeled and arranged in 
botanical order, and now represents nearly 1 ‘000 genera, being e — ie 
ull in grasses and plants of the southw 
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: chairman of the co mmittee, Dr. George Vasey, Department of 7 
Bee ure, Washington, 3 Ad 3 A. A. Cro: 
iki Washington, D. C. 
Si rice aeen 
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such matters, are singularly silent. -Down south, where. it is said, them 
tives hunt all day for a sn 
m 
ay be more ‘ones on the one Here is the list for what tit 
ican 
pay Medica Botany (1 $38) the name “ rattlesn nake-mastet 
quarrosa, with the note that it is so called in 
southern ; ¢ : animal 
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ia th t : ts ey tk” 
a me the patient drinks a decoctién of it in mi 
x speaks of thee spies of Mikania so employed, but ours is not among 
td to Aristolochia serpentaria, Fliickiger and Hanbury gay," 
t he cure of snake-bites is now disregarded.” 
en nt person wo uld giv: 
and a'go what j 1s known of the as 
University, Providence, R. I pnW. Wait an BAILEY 
Strawberry poisoning, vt 
response to my note upon this subject in the January GAZE 
ried a co setUnication from Di Dr. Fi spaugh, of Waren 
Piece ilar to those Té 
by my a which ee already been tebe avd S publighed. tee 
