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yields 2°13, and Coffee, from 0°8 to 1:00. The mode of using the Gua- 
rana js curious and interesting. It is ape = in the ae" of almost 
effect is very agreeable, but, as there is a large quantity of tannic “er 
also present, - is not a good thing for weak digestions.” —Zztr. 
Chron., May 2, p. 
; deta rootlets on , the stems of Virginia Creeper (Ampelopsis quin- 
quefolia).—Referring to the note on p. 445 of the last No. of this Journal, 
we may add that we have received, from Dr. Parry of Iowa, specimens 
of the stem of this plant abundantly garnished with aerial rootlets, thus 
confirming the character in Michaux’s Flora, and in the lamented oan 
Darlington’s Flora Cestrica. 
5. Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, fasc. xxxi, xxxii. (Jan., 1863). per 
new parts of this great work contain the Dilleniacee, by Dr. Eichler, 
with 14 plates; and the Sapotee, by Prof. Miquel, 31 eae: = 
orders appear to be well elaborated. 
. Dr. Charles Wilkins Short died at his residence at Lotta Ker Y 
i hi “Ae é 
enial duties of “his sere te Bok and ns the eka ope of botany, #l 
favorite pursuit of his life. At the close of the year 1838, he rem he 
along with some of his distinguished colleagues, to Lonisville, filling the 
same chair in the Univers rsity of that city, until 1849, when 
Short’s botanical publications were neither la Aah 
were chiefly articles contributed to the Transylvania Journal of 
ich y . 4 
important is is his Ca : = 
widely and gervbetaed explored), bette ral Supplements; with well 
considered char. new species, and acute and discrimin: 
it known ‘Plants. ‘These, and the co 
he was accustomed for ma 3 to co 
: * See this Jour, xxv, 451. 
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