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sea. Galeotti describes it asa ee, shrub, having <> piriy, 
fragrant flowers, poe * woods in the ordi llera of Vera Cru 
at an elevation of 3,000 fe Birako 1 des indue iv a m tree, 
growing at an altitude of 3, "500 feet, near Guarenas, in the province 
of Caracas, and pere the na of nillo B " Spruce, 
ho collected at Baños, Quito, has the following note 
* Arbor patula, 4i-siedalls, lactescens, haud resinoso-aromatica. 
Flores albi. Alubilla, Quitensium.” Purdie, who collected it 
in New Grenada, states that it is “ “the cele brated Palo Petro-Fer- 
nandez”; and on another label he describes itas a large forest tree. 
There are specimens in the Herbarium from several other collectors 
and localities, but they are unaccompanied by any remarks. 
Ernst (La Exposicion Nacional de Venezuela = Ein p. 215) 
enumerates Rhus juglandifolia among woods anc mbers, under 
the vernacular name of ** Manzanillo de Cerro." Not one of the 
foregoing Spanish names is given in Seemann’s Die Volksnamen 
der ingesta hen Pflanzen, and we have found no publi 
aecount of its possessing poisonous properties, w wey from its 
popular name ‘ Manzanillo” ages aie might have been 
expected. But some months ago Mr. J. V. Sigvald Muller, of 
Jolia; one arcel named “ Aluvilla blanca," and another 
* Aluvilla negra." There were slight differences in the foliage; 
but we could find nothing to distinguish them specifically. 
Mr. Muller, however, is of opinion that they are distinct, and 
states that both have the reputation of being exceedingly 
venomous. So far as we understand, his information was a 
derived from hear-say, and is merely traditional. Indeed he 
states that he had met none E Indians who even knew the 
name *'Aluvilla There may a grain of 
LU. though it is almost EV that Rhus juglandifolia 
s not harmful to Europeans. 
Fungus from indigo refuse. Professor C. A. J. A, Oudemans has 
recently called attention (Versl. Konikl. Akad. Wetensch. Lindt. 
IV., 89 (1897), to a new species of edible fungus, Verpa indigocola, 
+ from — sva, which otaa Tewe on the 
ived from 
the Haarlem Colonial Museum proves to be; a species of Coprinus, 
Books presented by the Bentham Trustees. In addition to about 
twenty serial publications, received in exchange for Hovker’s 
Icones Plantarum, the Bentham Trustees have from time to time 
made important gifts of books. The most recent acquisitions 
from this nud er a fifteenth, sixteenth, and seven- 
teenth century b ong them are the Ae princeps of the 
— esit a a of Crescen ood cop 
f the same author's De e Agricultura vitii cine ex ntarum et 
OS generibus, libri xii., &c., 1548; an excellent copy of 
