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nah River. Mr. H. W. Ravenel has distributed specimens which 
b 
wasted a lot of aoe dpoking for E/fottia but without success. It 
appears to be 
Shortly after ie the specimens from Mr. Berckmans, I 
received a letter from Mr. R. M. Harper, a student of the Gar- 
den 
The plants grow in very oe pine lands, almost dry See for 
sand hills and this station is forty miles south of the original lo- 
ised us one of the three hate from his grounds at Augusta. 
JK ALL, 
THE NATURE AND USES OF THE PEANUT (Arachis 
hypogaea L.).* 
This curious plant is of unusual interest in two directions: 
a kn 
its fruit, saoteciated | in a very low degree by the general Public 
* Lecture delivered at the New York Botanical Garden, May 4, 1901. 
