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lose-serrate ; veicB cloee, spreading nearly at right angles, simpled and forked ; sori continuous in a 

 marginal bond, falling ebort of the sharply serrated apex. — Eat. Fer. N. Am. pi. 6i, 



Infrequent on the banks of streams between 4,000-5,000 ft. alt ; gathered below Belle Vue, of the 

 Government Cinchona Plantation. The discovery in Jamaica, in the region mentioned, by Nock, some 

 sixteen or eevectcen years ago, made the West Indies a new habitat for this widely distributed species. 

 It is remarkable ior its fine, loug, narrow, very tapering pinnae, and slender straw-coloured vascular parts. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT. 



LiBKABY. 



Tru.'isury of Botany, 2 vols. [Kew.] 

 Hooker and Amott's British Flora. [Kew.] 

 Gray's Structural aud Systematic Botany. [Kew.] 

 Liudley's Introduction to Botany. Vols. 1 & 2. [Kew.] 

 Smithsonian Report, 1889. [Kew.] 



Annual Reports of Forest Department, Madras, 1888-89. [Kew.] 

 Catalogue of contributions from India to the London Exhibition of 1862. [Kew.] 

 Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium. Vol. I, No. IV ; Vol. 11, No. I. [Kew.] 

 Wattle Bark. Report of Board of Enquiry. Melbourne. 1878. [Kew.] 

 A Visit to the West Indies : — A. H. Hitchcock. [Kew.] 

 Bulletin Royal Gardens, Kew, No. 72. December 1892. [Kew.] 

 Ditto Appendix III., 1892. [Kew.] 



Bulletin Dept. of Agriculture, Canada. No. 16. Nov. 1892. [Kew.] 

 Report on Tea Culture in Assam for 1891. [Kew.] 

 Report on Govt. Agri-Horti-Gardens, LaJiore for 1891-92. [Kew.] 

 Reports of Public Parks and Gardens, Cape Colony. For 1891-92. [Kew,] 

 Odd numbers of the Transactions of the Jamaica Society of Arts. [Kew.] 

 Diplomatic and Consular Reports. [Hon. Colonial Secretary.] 

 Index to Diplomtic and Consular Reports. [Hon. Colonial Secretary.] 

 The International Customs Journal. [Hon. Colonial Secretary.] 

 Bulletins, Nos. 5—19. 1890-92. [Dept. of Agriculture, Brisbane.] 

 A Bibliography of Australian Economic Botany, Part I. [Govt. Botanist, Sydney.] 



Proc. of the Ninth Annual Convention of tlie Assoc. of Agricultural Chemists, 1892. [Sec. of Agriculture.] 

 Proceedings and Journal of Agri-Horti-Society of India. July — September 1892. [Secretary.] 

 Proceedings of Agri-Hoi-ti-Society of Madras. July — September 1892. [Secretary.] 



Proceedings and Transactions of Nova Scotia Institute of Science, Second Series, Vol. I. Part I. [Secretary,] 

 Times of Ceylon, Nos. 43—50, Oct., Nov. and Deer. 1892. [Editor.] 

 Botanical Gazette, Nos. 11 & 12. Nov. & Dec, 1892. [Editor.] 



Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales. Vol. III. Part 9, September 1892, aud Index to Vol. II. [Editor.] 

 Agricultural Record of Trinidad, May 1891, [Mr. C. W. Meaden.] 



Barbados Agricultural Gazette and Planters Journal, No. 12, December 1892. [Editor.] 



Florida Despatch, 1^'armer and Fruit Grower, Nob. 40—01. November & December 189U. [Editor.] 



Planters Monthly, Sept. 1892. [Editor.] 



The Sugar Cane, Nos. 281, 282. Dec. 1892, & Jany. 1893, [Editor.] 

 Chemist and Druggist, Nos. 656—683, Nov. & Dec. 1892. [Editor.] 

 West Indian & Commercial Advertiser, December 1892. [Editor.] 

 Torrey Botanical Club, December 1892. [Secretary.] 



Annual Progress Report of State Forest Administration New South Wales, for 1891. [Director General.] 



Annual Report of the Gardens at Oodeypore for 1891-92. [Superintendent.] 



Annual Report on Botanical Station at Aburi to 30th June, 1892. [Curator.] 



Annual Report of Botanic Gardens, Luckuow, to 31st March, 1892. [Superintendent.] 



Annual Report of Botanic Gardens, Saharanpur, and Mussooree to 31st March, 1892. [Superintendent.] 



Report of the Viticultural Work, 1887 — 1889. [University of California.] 



Reports of Experiments on Methods of Fermentation. [Do.] 



Distribution of Seeds aud Plants. [Do.] 



Root Knots on Fruit Trees and Vines. [Do.] 



Seeds. 



From Boydl Gardens, Kew : — 



Gaultberia perplexa, G. f ragrautissima, Acacia melanoxylon, A verticillata, A. pycnantha, A. armata, A. lophantha, 

 A acauthocarpa, Gahnia erythrocarpa, Bellendeuia montana, Capparis Mitchelli, Ctesalpinia echinata, Rhodamnia 

 trinervis Gomphocarpus arborescens, Cordyline australis, Billardiera longiiiora fructu albo, Tecoma australis, Alyxia- 

 buxifolia' Anigozauthus Manglesii, Maba natalensis, Schizophragma hydrangoides, Veronica Derwentia, Leptocarpha 

 rivularis Stapelia gigantea, Plectranthus glaucocalyx, Eucalyptus punctata, Atriplex halmoides, Andropogon sp., Mel- 

 hania orythroxylon, Cephalostachyum capitatum, Blue Kennedya, Anthistiria avenacea, Bucklandia populnea, Helichry- 

 sum rosmarifolium, Cordyline iudivisa. Rhododendron spp. Nos. 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 3337, and Rhododen- 

 dron Delavayi, R. campanul itum, R. Falconeri, R. barbatum, R. decorum, R. hybridum, R. glaucum, R, Dalhousiie, 

 R camphylocarpun, R. Hodgsoni, R. cinuabarinum, R. Wightii, Dichrostachys sp. 

 From Harvard University : — 



Sileiie stylosa, Calendula regalis, Helianthus rigidus. Coreopsis cardiniinifolia, Tagetes africana, Mauraudia Bar- 

 cHvana Phytolacca decandra, Coreopsis auriculata, C. lauceolata, C. delphinifolia, C. senifolia, Dimorphotheca pluvialis. 

 Chrysanthemum segetum, C. coronarium. Calendula officinalis, (meteor), Anchusa angustifolia, Iberis coronaria, Bidens 

 atrosanguinea. Petunia nyctaginiflora, Phlox Drummoudii, Zinnia elcgans, Digitalis ochrolueca, Gypsophylla acutifolia, 

 Silphium perfoliatum, Veronica caucasica, Scutellaria macrantha, Scrophularia alata, Pardanthus chinensis. Lobelia 

 cardinalis Scrophularia latifolia, Pentstemon pulchella, Statice latifolia, Parthenium integrifolium, Rudbeckia bicolor, 

 R «rand'ifolia, Actinomeris helianthoides. Verbena hybrida, Godetia bijou, Scabiosa nana fl. pi., S. isetensis, Didiscus 

 cwnUeus, Ageratum mexicaiuim, Salpiglossis croceum, Tagetes patula, vars. Gladiolus Lemoine's, hybrids, Heuchera san- 

 Miinea Pentstemon diti'usus, Heliopsis scabra. Anemone decapitata, Alyssum saxatile, A. argenteum. Clematis ochroleuca, 

 Grindelia hirsutula. Aster puuiceus, Pycnanthemum montanum, Heuchera hispida, Ruellia ciliosa, Saponaria officinalis, 



f ' Tiu^m "Al»troemeria aurea. Salvia pratensis, Sonchus palustris, Eupatoiiumjiiurpureum, Silphium asperrimum. Lychnis 

 chalcedonies, Gaillardia picta, Plantago major, atropurpurea, Helianthus lactiflorus, Celsia Arcturus, Pentstemon bar- 

 batue, VerbaBCum Blattaria. 



