8o THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
minister, has to depend upon donations for this sort of thing, can- 
not give it a more extended notice. The scientist will no doubt 
luxuriate in his Roxburgh edition, but we suggest that when the 
next volume is published, a few sheets of just common old white 
paper be fed into the press to make a book or two for the editors. 
We note with regret that the publishers of Meelian's Monthly 
have decided to discontinue the magazine at the close of the pre- 
sent volume. For twelve years it has stood as a model of what 
a journal of popular botany should be and its disappearance will 
leave a blank that other journals will imperfectly fill. It is to be 
regretted that a journal so ably edited and so full of real worth 
should not find sufficient support from the flower loving public to 
justify its continuance. 
"The plants used by the Indians of Mendocino county, Califor- 
nia," is the title of a valuable publication recently issued by the 
United States Department of Agriculture as a contribution from 
the National Herbarium. These Indians have only been in con- 
tact with civilization for about half a century and as a conse- 
quence still retain many of their former customs. It is the opinion 
of the author, Mr. V. K. Chesnut, that several of the wild plants 
used as food might be introduced into the gardens of civilized 
men with good results. 
Dr. B. L. Robinson's "Flora of the Galapagos Islands" issued 
as a contribution fromi the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer- 
sity under date of Ocober 28, 1902, is a general revision of the 
peculiar flora of these little known islands, made possible by the 
collections of the recent Hopkins-Stanford Expedition. There 
are now 537 flowering plants and ferns known from this region 
and these belong to no less than 323 genera. A remarkable char- 
acteristic of the flora is the number of endemic species that occur. 
Forty-five per cent, or nearly half the species, are found only in 
these islands. Thirty-nine out of the seventy-two families of 
plants represented, contain endemic species, the Compositae, alone 
containing thirty-nine and the Euphorbiaceae twenty-five. The 
genus Scalesia is found only in these islands and, most singularly 
several of the islands have each a species of it that is not found on 
any of the others. 
