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Pcpcroiniac to Dr. Casimir de Candolle, Geneva, Switzerland. 
Graniineae (grasses) : Dr. E. Haeckel, Austria. 
Cypcraceac (false grasses) : Rev. Dr. Kuekenthal, Attersee, 
Austria. 
Lichenes, mosses, hepathics : Dr. A. Zahbruckner, Imp. Roy. 
Museum Nat. Hist., Vienna, Austria, 
EUCALYPTUS INVESTIGATION. 
The writer has made a special effort to straighten out the 
different species of Eucalypts growing in the Islands. On 
Tantalus material from 40 species and varieties was collected 
and forwarded to Dr. J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist, 
Sydney, Australia, the Eucalyptus expert, who kindly con- 
sented to identify the same for the Department. The diag- 
nosis of over 20 species he has sent lately; of the remaining 
ones Dr. Maiden requested more complete material, Avhich 
has been forwarded to him, as well as to Dr. Baker, who in- 
quired if he could obtain specimens of the various species 
of Eucalypts cultivated in the Islands. The identification of 
the latter is still pending. 
NATIVE SEED COLLECTION. 
At Auahi, East Maui, the writer was enabled to collect 
about 15 pounds of seed of the following species: 
Alectryon macrococcus Radlk. (Mahoe). 
Ochrosia sandwicensis Gray (Holei). 
Alphitonia pondcrosa Hillebr. (Kauila). 
Pisonia incrmis Forst. (Papala Kepau). 
Maba sandwicensis A. DC. (Lama). 
Dracaena aurea Mann (Halapepe). 
Sideroxylon sp.? (Alaa). 
Sample packages of seeds were sent to Dr. R. v. Wettstein, 
Director Bot. Gardens, Vienna, Austria, wdio consented to 
supply the Department with seeds of various Coniferae 
(pines) for the tree planting experiments on Mauna Kea and 
Haleakala. 
Very respectfully, 
Joseph F. Rock. 
Botanical Assistant. 
Homesteaders and persons owning plots of soil on which they 
would like to grow things ous:ht to obtain a copy of the Bulletin 
on "Peanuts in Hawaii," by Mr. F. G. Krauss, agronomist, which 
is No. 28 of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station series. 
