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Aeonttum fiseheri (Ranunculaceae), 51745. Prom Edin- 
burgh, Scotland. Seeds presented by Dr. Isaac Bayley 
Balfour, director, Royal Botanic Garden. As a garden 
plant this is one of the best, and well worth growing 
in any collection of hardy plants. The growth reaches 
4 to 6 feet, terminated by a fine panicle of large 
showy pale-blue flowers. It is an autumn-flowering 
species from Siberia and Kamchatka. 
Medicinally, this plant is known as Japanese 
aconite, and is imported quite largely into Europe 
and frequently finds Its way into the United States. 
The Japanese aconite contains as its^ active constitu- 
ent an alkaloid called japaconltine, which is now 
generally believed to be identical with aconitine (the 
alkaloid in A.napellus). (Adapted from Flora and Sylva, 
vol. 1, p. 214; and National Standard Dispensatory, 
p; 98 and 101. ) 
Aeonttum variegatum (Ranunculaceae ) , 51474. Monkshood. 
From Edinburgh, Scotland. Seeds presented by Dr. Isaac 
Bayley Balfour, director, Royal Botanic Garden. A 
large plant reaching 1.5 m. in height , found in certain 
humid forests of the Swiss Alps and bearing from July 
to September . beautiful blue flowers often streaked 
with white. The upper sepal is the shape of a helmet 
and at least twice as tall as wide. At the base of 
each flower stalk the plant usually bears 2 or 3 adven- 
titious roots swollen into tubercles. The tubers are 
smaller than those of A., napellus (the officinal vari- 
ety of aconite), but closely resemble small specimens 
of it. (Adapted from Bonnier, Flore Complete Illus- 
tree en Couleurs de France, Suisse, et Belglque, vol. 
1, p. 39.) 
Befaria phillyreae folia (Ericaceae), 51786. From Bogota, 
Colombia; Seeds colleoted by Mr. Wilson Popenoe, ag- 
ricultural explorer. "No. 488a. From the mountains 
near Slbate, Cundihamarca , at an altitude of about 
9,000 feet. A bushy . shrub about '5 feet high, with 
handsome tubular flowers, deep rose-pink, and about 1 
inch in length." (Popenoe.) 
Beroeris quinduensis (Berberidaceae ) , 51795, Barberry. 
From Bogota, Colombia. Seeds collected by Mr. Wilson 
Popenoe, agricultural explorer. "No. 500a. 'Tachuelo,' 
from El Penon, near Slbate, Cundlnamarca, at an alti- 
tude of 9,300 feet. An arborescent shrub; or small 
tree, 20 feet high, with small, stiff, spiny, holly- 
