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a cone for the second time. This species of the cycad family is 
a native of southern Africa. Stangeria differs from all the other 
genera of cycads in having the leaf-segments pinnately-veined 
instead of parallel-veined, and its v enation so much resembles that 
of some ferns that this plant ginally described many years 
ago as a Lomaria. As many of the fossil plants of the coal 
measures, first supposed to be ferns, have recently been shown 
to be more nearly related to the cycads, this living genus is of 
particular interest. 
In conservatory range no. I, are specimens of plants from which 
three of the most important beverages are derived. In house 
no. 13 the tea plant, Thea sinensis, isin flower. It is from the 
young leaves of this plant that tea is made, the different kinds 
depending upon the manner of drying and preparing them. In 
house no. 4 are two other beverage plants, coffee, Coffea arabica, 
and chocolate, Theobroma cacao, both now in fruit. The two 
seeds in the red berries of coffee are the coffee-beans of com- 
merce; and the numerous seeds, arranged in five rows, in the 
large pods of the Theobroma are the chocolate beans. 
Meteorology for November.—The total precipitation for the 
month was 2.83 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded 
of 65° on the 2d, 62° on the roth, 54° on the 18th, and 60° on 
the 24th. Also minimum temperatures were recorded of 29° on 
the Ist, 21° on the 21st, and 29° on the 2 
ACCESSIONS. 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM. 
346 specimens of flowering plants and ferns from St. Domingo. (Collected by 
Baron Hap yon ie ckheim.) 
the local herbarium. (By exchange with Mr. Harold W. Pretz.) 
4 specimens of Salix from Maine. (Given by Mr. K. K. Mackenzie.) 
2 specimens of mosses from Connecticut. (Given oe Mr. George E. Nichols.) 
37 specimens for the local herbarium. (Given by Mr. K. K. Mackenzie.) 
3,000 specimens from North America. (By a with the United States 
National Museum. 
3,500 oe from Cuba. (Collected by Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton, Mr. 
F. S. Earle and . C. Stuart Gager. 
83 specimens a mosses from Oregon. (By exchange with the United States 
National Museum.) 
