THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST, 
An lustre WMagazine 
OF 
NATURAL HIS LORE 
EDITED BY 
EDWARD D. COPE AnD J. S. KINGSLEY. 
ASSISTED BY 
W. N. LOCKINGTON, W. S. BAYLEY, CHARLES E. BEssEY, F., S. LEE, 
JOHN A. RYDER, CLARENCE M. WEED, THOMAS 
WILSON, C. O. WHITMAN. 
è 
s VOLUME XXIV. 
MISSOURI 
BOTANICAL 
GARDEN. 
Philadelphia : 
FERRIS BROS., PUBLISHERS, 
SIXTH AND ARCH STREETS. 
1890. 
