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Vol. V FEBRUARY. 1904 No. 50 JOURNAL The New York Botanical Garden EDITOR DANIEL TREMBLY MACDOUGAL Director of the Laboratories CONTENTS PAG 11 George Washington's Palms ( Plates XX. and XXI.) 25 The Economic Museum ( illustrated) . . . 28 Interesting Plants in Flower in the Conservatories 31 Publications of the Staff and Students of the New York Botanical Garden during 1903 33 Botanical Exploration of the Philippine Islands 40 Accessions 43 PUBLISHED FOR THE GARDEN AT 41 NORTH QUEEN STREET, LANCASTER, PA. BT THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY OKFTTCECRS, 1 9 0 4 . PRESIDENT— D. O. MILLS, VICE- PRESIDENT— ANDREW CARNEGIE, TREASURER— CHARLES F. COX, SECRETARY— N. L. BRITTON. B O A R D O K M A N A G E R S . 1. ELECTED MANAGERS. ANDREW CARNEGIE, J. PIERPONT MORGAN, W. BAYARD CUTTING, GEORGE W. PERKINS, ROBERT W. DE FOREST, JAMES A. SCRYMSER, JOHN I. KANE, SAMUEL SLOAN, D. O. MILLS, W. GILMAN THOMPSON, SAMUEL THORNE. 2. EX- OFFICIO MANAGERS. THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, HON. JOHN J. PALLAS. THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, HON. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. 3. SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS PROF. L. M. UNDERWOOD, Chairman. HON. ADDISON BROWN, PROF. J. F. KEMP, DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, PROF. FREDERICK S. LEE, PROF. C F. CHANDLER, HON. HENRY A.. ROGERS, CHARLES F. COX, PROF. H. K. RUSBY G A R D E N S T A F F . DR. N. L. BRITTON, Director- in- Chief. DR. D. T. MACDOUGAL, First Assistant. DR. JOHN K. SMALL, Curator of the Museums. DR. P. A. RYDBERG, Assistant Curator. DR. ARTHUR HOLLICK, Assistant Curator. DR. MARSHALL A. HOWE, Assistant Curator. F. S. EARLE, Assistant Curator. GEORGE V. NASH, Head Gardener. ANNA MURRAY VAIL, Librarian. DR. H. H. RUSBY, Curator of the Economic Collections. DR. WM. J. GIES, Consulting Chemist. COL. F. A. SCHILLING, Superintendent. JOHN R. BRINLEY, Landscape Engineer. WALTER S. GROESBECK, Clerk and Accountant. DR. JOHN HENDLEY BARNHART, Editorial Assistant. JOHN A. SHAFER, Museum Custodian. JOURNAL OF The New York Botanical Garden VOL. V. February, 1904. No. 50 GEORGE WASHINGTON'S PALMS. The name Washingtonia was first proposed by Wendland in 1879 ( Bot. Zeitung, 3 7 : 68) for the palm which had then been known for some years in Europe as Brahea filifera and Pritchardia filifera; Wendland showed that it was generically different from either Brahea, a Mexican genus of two or three species, and from Pritchardia of the South Sea islands. This palm first became known in Europe from seeds obtained by the nurseryman Linden, of Ghent, apparently as early as 1869, but he does not seem to have recorded the source from which they came. It is stated in Revue Horticole, 48 : 373, 1876, that the plant was introduced into cultivation by Linden in 1871 under the name Pritchardia filifera, and that it was also listed in his catalogue no. 96 as Brahea filamentosa. It was exhibited as Pritchardia filifera at the quinquennial horticultural exhibition held at Ghent in 1873, by Linden, together with other palms new to cultivation. ( See Illustration Horticole, 20 : 98 ; no description of it is there given, however.) As to the origin of the seeds, Watson ( Proceedings Amer. Acad. 2 5 : 136) cites evidence to show that they were collected in Cantilles Canon, northern Lower California. Drude says, however ( Botanische Zeitung, 34: 806, 1876), that the plant then known as Pritchardia filamentosa was obtained by Roezl in northern Mexico, near Arizona, on the Colorado River; this origin is also given in Revue Horticole, 48 : 374, and the differences of the palm from either Brahea or Pritchardia are discussed. 25 26 This species has nearly upright leaves with narrow lobes which droop at the tips, and slender stalks which are slightly prickly, the prickles very short. We have only small specimens of it at the Garden as yet, raised from seeds obtained from a Californian nursery. In 1883 ( Garten Zeitung, 2 : 198) Wendland described a second species of the genus under the name Washingtonia robusta, from plants sent him by Van Houtte, of Ghent, which he says originated on the Sacramento River, California, which is unlikely, inasmuch as none of the group are known to grow naturally so far to the north ; this species is much more fully described by Andre in Revue Horticole, 57: 401- 404, 1885, where it is also illustrated. It has spreading darker green leaves than the one first known, their stouter stalks armed with stout curved yellow prickles often half an inch long, the lobes of the leaves relatively broader and less abundantly provided with the characteristic fibrils which resemble those of palmettos { Inodes). It was almost certainly derived from southern California, where it grows plentifully in isolated oases in the desert in San Diego County. A view of one of these palm oases taken from a photograph secured by Dr. MacDougal and Mr. Coville while studying the best locality for establishing the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution is shown on the accompanying plate ( Plate XX.); the trees are about fifty feet high, and their old leaves remain attached to the trunk for several years after wilting. The Garden has recently received as a gift from Mr. C. M. Hyde a very fine pair of these palms, with trunks about seven feet high and leaves four feet in diameter ; they are exhibited in the central house of the public conservatories, and are represented on the accompanying plate made from a photograph ( Plate XXL). This Washingtonia robusta of Wendland is the same plant as the specimen figured by Sargent in Silva of North America, 10 : 47, plate 509, as IV. filamentosa. As yet there is no certain evidence that the original W. filamentosa occurs wild within the United States, though Watson remarks ( Proc. Amer. Acad. 2 5 : 137) that it probably exists in the mountains bordering the Colorado River north of the Mexican boundary. JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK ISOTANICAI. GARDEN. PLATE X> Nemvashingtonia robusta in Conservatory, New York Botanical Garden. 27 This " Desert Palm" is said by Dr. Parry to have been noticed by the botanists of the Mexican Boundary Survey, and this would throw its first observation by plantsmen back to 1855, but the first reference to it in literature appears to be by Dr. Cooper ( Smithsonian Report, i 8 6 0 : 342. 1861) who erroneously and doubtfully referred it to Brahea dulcis Martius, a South American palm. It was early planted at the missions. A very interesting account of it appears in Garden and Forest, 3 : 51, 1890, written by Mr. G. B. Parish. It is known in southern California also as Fan Palm and San Diego Palm, and additional notes upon it are given by Mr. S. B. Parish in the same volume of that journal ( 3 : 542), where he discusses the probability of its being W. robusta and not W. filamentosa. There is a fine specimen of the Desert Palm in the conservatories of the National Botanical Garden at Washington, with a trunk about 4 meters high, leaf- stalks 1 dm. wide at the base, the large leaves nearly 2 meters in diameter. Mr. Smith tells me that this plant is about 30 years old, and that he raised it from seed given him by a congressman from California. Watson, in 1889 ( Proceedings Amer. Acad. 24 : 79) described a third species from specimens sent by Dr. E. Palmer from Guaymas, Sonora, under the name Washingtonia Sonorae ; this palm grew in secluded canons in the mountains. Watson remarks that it differs from the others in its more slender leafstalks, paler leaves and smaller fruit; the leaf- stalks are described by him in the same journal the next year, from specimens collected by Palmer at La Paz, southern Lower California, as armed with stout curved prickles as in robusta, but these are partly covered with a web of woolly hairs. He records that the Guaymas plant reaches 8 meters in height with a trunk a foot in diameter, and that its fruit is used for food by the Indians. We have young plants raised from seed supposed to be of this species. In revising the nomenclature of the arborescent flora of the United States, Sudworth noticed that the name Washingtonia, applied to these beautiful and interesting palms by Wendland, was preoccupied by its use for other plants by authors previous to Wendland ; he therefore proposed for the palms the name Neowashingtonia, by which they are now known ( Bulletin U. S. Dept. Agric, Div. Forestry, 14: 1897). In order to ascertain the exact botanical characters of the group, and whether there are really three species, or the described forms are forms of a single species, complete herbarium specimens accompanied by photographs are desiderata. The cultivated plants seem to differ considerably in their leaves, and if the species are good, accompanying differences should be found in the flowers and fruit. N. L. BRITTON. THE ECONOMIC MUSEUM. The recent building of additional exhibition cases has made possible a considerable development of the Economic Museum of the first floor of the museum building. The amount of case-space added to that previously occupied by the economic collections amounts to about one hundred per cent., and besides relieving the congested condition of the collections, the installation of this new furniture has given a much more balanced and finished appearance to the museum halls ; about three fifths of the available space for cases on this floor is now occupied. The standard cases are now grouped in rectangular blocks of four or six units. In the main east and west halls the blocks are composed of six units, while in the wings they are composed of four. The floor plan on the opposite page indicates the positions of the several blocks of cases. The specimens contained in the original equipment of cases have been spread out into the new cases and a large number of specimens hitherto necessarily stored in the basement have been interpolated and are being permanently arranged as rapidly as the labels can be printed. During this general rearrangement of the exhibits, there has been no change from the general plan previously adopted for this museum and already described in the BULLETIN of the Garden.* * Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2 : 27 and 28. [ Qj bd— ET" 30 Reference to the floor plan and its accompanying legend will indicate the relative position of the various groups of plants and plant- products now comprising the economic collection. Foods and fibers occupy the west hall ; the former in cases on the north side, the latter on the south. The west wing is mainly given over to exhibits other than foods, fibers, drugs and woods. The east hall contains the drugs, while the east wing is set aside for the woods and wood products. The contents of the museum may be briefly outlined as follows : * Blocks numbered I, 2 and 3 contain fibers. The cases adjacent to the center of the building, and the entrance, are given over to cotton and cotton products, the most important of the fibers of vegetable origin, while in the succeeding cases are displayed various other economic fibers and fiber products arranged in the sequence of the natural families. Block 4 contains rubber and gums and resins. Block 5 is occupied by a fine collection of vanilla and tonka beans, licorice and spices. Block 6 is given over to fodders. Block 7 contains tobacco, mastica-tories and the miscellaneous plant products. Block 8 contains the various beverages. Block 9 is given over to the fixed and volatile oils, including the crude materials from which the oils are derived and their bye- products. Block 10 contains the specimens of sugars and starches. Block 11 is divided between specimens of wood- and straw- paper and cork. Blocks numbered 12, 13 and 14, consisting of the same number of units that are given over to the fibers, are occupied by the foods. Here as in the case of the fibers the same general plan of arrangement has been adopted, thus the cases adjacent to the center of the building are given over to the specimens of the cereals, which taken together represent the most important foods of vegetable origin, and following these are the other foods, mostly fruits, primarily divided, as nearly as possible into two groups, the dry and the juicy, each group arranged in the sequence of the natural families. The six blocks numbered 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 contain the drug- plants and drugs. In these the specimens are divided * The numbers of the blocks of exhibition cases used in the succeeding paragraphs refer to those on the floor plan accompanying this article. 31 into two series, which maybe designated as crude drugs and prepared drugs. The crude drugs are arranged morphologically beginning with the roots and rootstocks and followed by stems, barks, leaves, inflorescences, flowers, fruits, seeds, and the whole plant. The east wing is given over to the woods and wood products. Blocks numbered 21, 22, 23 and 24 contain specimens of woods from many parts of the world, while block 30 contains various wood products and carbons. Blocks 25 to 35 are made of cases of special design, devised to exhibit the North American trees by means of examples of the wood, accompanied by drawings, photographs, fruits and various other illustrative specimens. J. K. SMALL. INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER IN THE CONSERVATORIES. Among the bananas in house no. 4 is one which attracts universal attention on account of its stately tall stems and beautiful leaves, both more or less tinged with dull red. • This is the red banana, called Ram- Kela in India, Musa sapientum rubra. The specimen referred to is now in full fruit for the first time. In this same house is also a large plant of the coral Pitcairnia, P. corallina, of Colombia, with its coral red drooping racemes just making their appearance. This will be a fine sight in the course of a week or two. Its leaves are five to six feet high, erect, and with a beautiful silvery under surface. In great contrast to this, and situated on the opposite side of the same house, is a large plant of Dombeya Wallichii, from Madagascar, with its large pendulous ball- like inflorescences of red flowers. Even in the necessarily restricted quarters of a conservatory it is an odd and attractive plant, with its large striking leaves and inflorescence, so what must it be in its native country where it can develop to its best! In the immediate vicinity is another interesting plant, this time from the standpoint of economics. This is the chocolate tree, 32 Theobroma Cacao, from which both chocolate and cocoa are manufactured. There is a group of four plants, three of which now bear nearly mature fruit, and one of them is also well in flower. Unlike most plants, this bears its flowers and fruit on the trunk or at the base of the branches, instead of near the end of the branches. The fruit contains five rows of seeds, a fully developed one having from 50 to 75 seeds. It is from these seeds, commonly called chocolate beans, that the economic products are produced. Right across the path from this is a large plant of Medinilla magnifica, from the Philippines, now sending out a profusion of its large panicles of bright pink flowers and floral bracts. It promises to be a handsome attraction in a few days. In no. 5, one of the succulent houses, several species of the aloes and gasterias are blooming. As these are all from southern Africa, where summer now holds forth, their flowering so freely at present is explained. One cannot refrain from expressing surprise that these homely but interesting plants should send forth such richly colored flowers. Another plant in this house, now in full bloom, is the odd Kalanchoe marmorata, from Abyssinia, with its long white flowers, quite exceptional in the genus, and fleshy marbled leaves. In house no. 8 a number of interesting Begonias are in bloom, among them the unusual B. nelumbiifolia, from the West Indies, with its immense leaves and large panicles of white flowers. Among the orchids in house no. 15, the most conspicuous for the past two weeks, and still continuing so, is a group of about a dozen plants of Laelia anceps in full bloom, their long graceful wand- like stems and rosy flowers making them very attractive. Not quite so showy, but much more unusual, is a large plant of Cattleya granulosa Russelliana. This was imported directly from Pernambuco, Brazil, the past summer, and is now in full flower with thirteen flowering stems containing an aggregate of thirty-five flowers. The yellowish- green petals and sepals with the small brown spots make quite a contrast with the white lip flushed with red, and also with the Cattleyas of the labiata type likewise now in bloom nearby. This variety Russelliana differs from the 33 type in having the parts of the perianth marked with fewer and smaller spots, and in having the blade of the lip broader and more pronounced. The Australian acacias, in house no. 13, are in full bloom. Conspicuous among these at present are : A. longifolia, with its yellow flowers borne in racemes ; A. cyanophylla, with its drooping branches, blue curiously curved leaves, and balls of yellow flowers ; and the dainty feathery A. dasyphylla, producing an effect quite unlike the others. In the large palm house there are many plants which are always interesting, whether in bloom or not. Perhaps the one of unusual interest at the present time to the lover of these stately plants, is a small member of the collection, a native of the Sandwich Islands. This is Pritchardia Martii, which flowered for the first time with us during January. It sent out three large panicles of deep yellow flowers, which added much to its attractiveness. It is one of those plants which by the stately manner of bearing its leaves gives one the impression of greater size than it really possesses, for, tub and all, it stands only about eight feet high. GEORGE V. NASH. PUBLICATIONS OF THE STAFF AND STUDENTS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN DURING THE YEAR 1903. Barnhart, J. H. Duplicate Binomials. Torreya, 3 : 142, 143. 26 S 1903. Britton, E. G. The European Species of Sematophyllum. Jour. Bot. 40: 353- 355- 1 O 1902.* Sematophyllum recurvans. Bryologist, 6 : 1- 3. pl. 1. Ja 1903. ( 27 D 1902.) The Jenman Collection of Ferns. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 85, 86. My 1903. * This title was accidentally omitted in the bibliographical list for 1902, published in tbe JOURNAL of February, 1903. 34 Britton, E. G. Notes on Nomenclature — II. Bryologist, 6: 42, 43. 5 My 1903. West Indian Mosses in Florida. Bryologist, 6 : 58- 61. 1 Jl 1903. The Splachnums. Bryologist, 6 : 91- 93. / / . / / . 2 N 1903. Britton, N. L. Address of Dr. N. L. Britton, Director- in- Chief of the New York Botanical Garden. Addresses delivered before the North Side Board of Trade, January 27, 1903. 15, 16. 1903. Resident Research Scholarships at the New York Botanical Garden. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 25, 26. F 1903. An undescribed Eleocharis from Pennsylvania. Torreya, 3 : 23 . 24- / • 1, 2- 19 F ! 9° 3- Research Funds of the Scientific Alliance of New York. Science, II. 17: 314, 315. 20 F 1903. The Bronx Park Station of the Manhattan Railway. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 4 1 - 4 4 . / . 1. Mr 1903. Report of the Secretary and Director- in- Chief for the Year 1902. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2: 409- 437. 18 Mr 1903. Timothy Field Allen. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 173- 177. Portrait. 8 Ap 1903. Report of the Director- in- Chief upon Exploration in Cuba. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 95- 99. / . 12, IJ. Je 1903. A new Species of Urera. Torreya, 3 : 90, 91. 12 Je 1903- A new Waltheria from the Bahamas. Torreya, 3 : 105, 106. 25 Jl 1903. A new Lippia from Porto Rico. Torreya, 3 : 105. 25 Jl 1903. New Paths at the southern End of the Garden. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 128, 129. Au 1903. The " Newell Avenue" Bridge. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 3 : 132. / . 1 j . Au 1903. A new Appropriation for Construction. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 149, 150. S 1903. 35 Britton, N. L. Report on Cuban Exploration. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 193, 194. N 1903. Flora of the Southeastern United States. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 215, 216. N 1903. [ Review.] The Rose Mallows. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 219, 220. pl. 1 j , 18. D 1903. Cornelius Van Brunt. Torreya, 3 : 177- 179. Portrait. 22 D 1903. & Rose, J. N. New or noteworthy North American Crassulaceae. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 3 : 1- 45. 12 S 1903. Cannon, W. A. Studies in Plant Hybrids : The Spermatogenesis of Hybrid Cotton. Bull. Torrey Club, 30: 133- 172. / / . 7, 8. 8 Ap 1903. Studies in Plant Hybrids : The Spermatogenesis of Hybrid Peas. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 519- 543. pl. ij- ic). 5 O 1903. Earle, F. S. Report on a Trip to Jamaica. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 1- 10. Ja 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Cortinarius — II. Torreya, 2 : 180- 183. 8 Ja 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Stropharia. Torreya, 3 : 24, 25, 19 F 1903. A Key to the North America Species of Lentinus— I. Torreya, 3 : 35- 38. 20 Mr 1903; — II. 3 : 58- 60. 18 Ap 1903. Report on a Trip to eastern Cuba. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 81- 85. My 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Panus. Torreya, 3 : 86, 87. 12 Je 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Pluteolus. Torreya, 3 : 124, 125. 22 Au 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Galera. Torreya, 3 : 134- 136- 26 S 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Inocybe— I. Torreya, 3 : 168- 170. 19 N 1903 ; — II. 3 : 183,184. 22 D 1903. 36 George, D. S. The Preservation of Native Plants. Plant World, 6: 159- 162. Jl 1903. Gies, W. J. Chemical Studies of the Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 37- 39. F 1903. True, R. H. &. On the physiological Action of some of the heavy Metals in mixed Solutions. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 390- 402. 10 Jl 1903. Haynes, C. C. Some interesting Hepaticae from Maine. Torreya, 3 : 40, 41. 20 Mr 1903. Hollick, A. Palaeobotany. New International Encyc. 1903. A fossil Petal and a fossil Fruit from the Cretaceous ( Dakota Group) of Kansas. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 102- 105./. A, B. 28 F 1903. Fossil Plants from Kansas. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 6 6 - 6 8 . / 8. Ap. 1903. Howe, M. A. Report of Dr. M. A. Howe, Assistant Curator, on a Trip to Florida. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4: 44- 49- / • 2- 5- Mr 1903. Grout's Mosses with Hand- Lens and Microscope. Torreya, 3 : 106, 107. 25 Jl 1903. [ Review.] Report on a Trip to Porto Rico by Dr. M. A. Howe, Assistant Curator. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 171- 1 7 6 . / 18- 21. O 1903. A Note on the " Flowering" of the Lakes in the Adirondacks. Torreya, 3 : 150- 154. 30 O 1903. & Underwood, L. M. The Genus Riella, with Descriptions of new Species from North America and the Canary Islands. Bull. Torrey Club, 3 0 : 214- 224. pl. 11, 12. 24 Ap 1903. King, C. A. Explosive Discharge of Antherozoids in Cono-cephalum. Torreya, 3 : 60, 61. 18 Ap 1903. Kupfer, E. M. Anatomy and Physiology of Baccharis genistel-loides. Bull. Torrey Club, 3 0 : 6 8 5 - 6 9 6 . / / - / / . 5 D 1903. MacDougal, D. T. The Influence of Light and Darkness upon Growth and Development. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : i- xiii + 1 - 3 1 9 . / I- IJ6. 20 Ja 1903. 37 MacDougal, D. T. Report of the Director of the Laboratories. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 452- 458. 18 Mr 1903. Kuster's Pathologische Pflanzenanatomie. Science, II. * 7 : 9° 5. 9° 6- 5 Je 1903. [ Review.] Soil Temperatures and Vegetation. Monthly Weather Review, 31 : 375- 379. / i- f. Au 1903. Some Correlations of Leaves. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 503- 512. / 1,2. 3 S 1903. Mutation in Plants. Am. Naturalist, 37 : 737- 770. / 1- 10. N 1903. Some Aspects of Desert Vegetation. Plant World, 6 : 249- 257. / / . 32- 36 ; f. 1- 5. N 1903. Morgan's Evolution and Adaptation. Torreya, 3 : 185- 187. 22 D 1903. [ Review.] Murrill, W. A. A new Family of the Basidiomycetes. Torreya, 3 : 7 . 26 Ja 1903. The Polyporaceae of North America — II. The Genus Pyropolyporus. Bull. Torrey Club, 3 0 : 109- 120. 28 F 1903. The Polyporaceae of North America — III. The Genus Fomes. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 225- 232. 24 Ap 1903. The Polyporaceae of North America — IV. The Genus Elfvingia. Bull. Torrey Club, 30: 296- 301. 16 My 1903. A historical Review of the Genera of the Polyporaceae. Jour. Mycol. 9 : 87- 102. 29 My 1903. The Polyporaceae of North America — V. The Genera Crvptoporus, Piptoporus, Scutiger and Porodiscus. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 423- 434. 4 Au 1903. Nash, G. V. The Palm Collection. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 12- 22. pl. 11- 13. Ja 1903. Some interesting Plants in Bloom in the Conservatories. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 50, 51. Mr 1903. Report of the Head Gardener. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 472- 479. 18 Mr 1903. Interesting Plants in Bloom. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 6 8 - 7 0 . / p. Ap 1903. 38 Nash, G. V. The Palm Collection at the New York Botanical Garden. Plant World, 6 : 82- 86. / / . 15. Ap 1903. A large Collection of Conifers for the Pinetum. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 87. My 1903. Recent Additions to the Palm and Cycad Collections. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 102- 104. Je 1903. The Tree- Fern House. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4: 119- 126. Jl 1903. A preliminary Enumeration of the Grasses of Porto Rico. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 369- 389. 10 Jl 1903. A new Aletris from Florida. Torreya, 3 : 101, 102. 25 Jl 1903. The Herbaceous Grounds. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4: 127, 128. pl. 16. Au 1903. The Flowering of a rare Florida Palm. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 129, 130. Au 1903. A Revision of the Family Fouquieriaceae. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 449- 459. 4 Au 1903. Report on Exploration in Hayti. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 2 0 5 - 2 1 5 . / 26- 2C). N 1903. A new Bamboo from Cuba. Torreya, 3 : 172, 173. 19 N 1903. Rennert, R. J. The Phyllodes of Oxypolls filiformis, a swamp Xerophyte. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 4 0 3 - 4 1 1 . / 1- 3. 10 Jl 1903. Robinson, C. B. The Distribution of Fucus serratus in America. Torreya, 3 : 132- 134. 26 S 1903. Robinson, W. J. Hcxalectris aphyllus, a true Saprophyte. Torreya, 3 : 1 1 6 - 1 2 0 . / 1- 3. 22 Au 1903. Rusby, H. H. Report of the Curator of the'Economic Collections. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 450, 451. 18 Mr 1903. Commercial Jaborandi. Bull. Pharm. 17: 409- 411. O 1903. [ Illust.] Vegetable Foods. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 176- 186. O 1903. Jamaica Sarsaparilla from Honduras? Druggists Circ. and Chem. Gaz. 4 7 : 2 2 4 - 2 2 6 . / 1- 10. N 1903. 39 Rusby, H. H. [ Articles on Vegetable Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; in] Buck's Reference Hand- book of the Medical Sciences, 6 : 1— 951. 1903; 7 : 1- 1004. 1903. Rydberg, P. A. A recent Monograph of Campanula rotundifolia and its Allies. Torreya, 3 : 9- 12. 26 Ja 1903. Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora— X. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 247- 262. 24 Ap 1903. Some generic Segregations. Bull. Torrey Club, 30: 271- 281. pl. 13, if.. 16 My 1903. Small, J. K. Report of the Curator of the Museums and Herbarium. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 438- 449. 18 Mr 1903. Flora of the Southeastern United States. 8vo. Pp. i- xii + 1- 1370. 22 Jl 1903. The Habitats of Polypodium polypodioides. Torreya, 3 : 141. 26 S 1903. Vail, A. M. Jonas Bronck and his Bouwery in New Amsterdam. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 32- 37. F 1903. Report of the Librarian. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 459- 471. 18 Mr 1903 . Studies in the Asclepiadaceae— VII. A new Species of Vincetoxicum from Alabama. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 178, 179. pl. 9, 10. 8 Ap 1903. Report on a Trip to France and Holland by Miss A. M. Vail, Librarian. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 141- 149. S 1903. The Exposition of the National Society of Horticulture of France. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 134- 138. Au 1903. Additions to the Library. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 7 0 - 7 4 . / 10, 11. Ap 1903. Williams, R. S. Psilopilum Tschuctschicum C. Muell. Bryologist, 6 : 3 8 . 4 Mr 1903. Oedipodium Gnjfilhianum ( Dicks.) Schwaegr. Bryologist, 6 : 47, 48. 5 My 1903. A collecting Trip to Bolivia. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 58- 66. / 6, 7. Ap 1903; Plant World, 6 : 132- 135. Je 1903. [ Abridged.] 40 Williams, R. S. Additional Mosses of the upper Yukon River. Bryologist, 6: 61, 62. 1 Jl 1903. Bolivian Mosses. Part I. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 3: 104- 134- 19 O I9° 3- Wilson, P. Report of Percy Wilson on Exploration in Honduras. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 99- 102. Je 1903. BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. In the autumn of 1903 the Board of Managers authorized the commencement of botanical exploration in the Philippine Archipelago, and made a preliminary appropriation for that purpose, and work was inaugurated in September by sending Mr. R. S. Williams to Manila to make collections in cooperation with the Insular Bureaus of Agriculture and Forestry; he arrived at Manila early in November and at once commenced making collections on the Island of Luzon ; under date of December 5, 1903, he writes that his first shipment of specimens will be dispatched from Manila within a few days from that time and should reach the Garden during February; it is hoped that Mr. Williams will be able to remain in the Philippines for a year or more, conducting this important work, and that when he returns it will be possible to send another collector there so as to continue the exploration for a series of years. The Garden has recently received through Mr. Elmer D. Merrill, the botanist of the Bureau of Government Laboratories of Manila, several thousand specimens obtained by him in various parts of the Archipelago, and we had previously received through the United States National Museum a considerable collection made in the islands by Mr. A. Loher. In addition to this material, and that now being obtained by Mr. Williams, there is contained in the Columbia University herbarium, on deposit at the Garden, a set of the botanical collections made by Mr. Hugh Cuming, an English 41 nautralist who visited the Philippines between 1835 and 1839, and whose collections have been studied by a number of European botanists. This collection is most important, as forming a basis for the study of the flora. The Columbia herbarium also contains a set of the specimens obtained by the United States Pacific Exploring Expedition under Captain Charles Wilkes, in the years 1838 to 1842, including many from the Philippine Islands. In addition to the study of the" herbarium specimens above described, the Garden will grow living plants and seeds obtained by Mr. Williams, who is also under instructions to secure and ship such specimens as he may be able to obtain for the Museums, the plan being to bring together all the plants and plant products of the Philippines that the means at our disposal will permit. At present the work will have to go forward slowly, but it is hoped that funds may be obtained to enlarge it as we proceed. It is planned to keep the herbarium specimens in a series by themselves for a number of years, and thus bring them together in convenient arrangement for study. This part of the work has been put in charge of Mr. C. B. Robinson, a graduate of Dal-housie College, and sometime student at Cambridge, England, who has been a student at the Garden for some months, and has recently been granted a resident research scholarship. N. L. BRITTON. NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. Dr. MacDougal left on January 13 for an inspection of the new Desert Botanical Laboratory of the* Carnegie Institution at Tucson, Arizona, which was described and illustrated in the January number of the JOURNAL. He writes that the plans for the building and its equipment, prepared by Mr. Coville and himself at the request of the Carnegie Institution, were carried out in a very satisfactory manner, and that Dr. Cannon, the resident investigator, has already commenced a series of investigations on desert plants, and that the facilities of the laboratory are already being taken advantage of, Professor Volney M. Spalding, of the University of Michigan, being at work there. 42 Dr. MacDougal spent a day at Langtry, Texas, on his way to Tucson, and shipped from there a small collection of interesting cactuses, which have reached the Garden in safety. After the completion of his examination of the laboratory and consultation with Dr. Cannon he will go on west to Yuma, where arrangements have been made for him to explore botanically the valley of the Colorado River from that point to the mouth of the river, and also the western shore of the northern part of the Gulf of California. As the flora of this region is practically unknown, it is anticipated that his observations and collections will be of very great interest and value. The trip down the river and into the Gulf will be made by boat, and the return will be made overland by wagon. It is expected that Dr. MacDougal will return to the Garden by the first of March. The longest and most expensive bridge to be built in the Garden was arranged for on December 30, by the award of a contract by the Commissioner of Parks to Mr., M. J. Leahy for the sum of $ 69,000, on plans and specifications prepared by Mr. John R. Brinley, landscape gardener. This bridge will carry the main east and west driveway across the valley of the Bronx River, at a point about 400 feet north of the present " Blue Bridge," at the north end of the hemlock forest; it will be built for the most part of rubble stone taken from the surplus rock excavations just east of the public conservatories, with granite trimmings, and its total length will be about 300 feet. There will be five arches, one over the river, two lateral ones to permit rapid passage of flood water, and two small ones near the two ends at the locations of paths. The time allowed to complete the whole work is 200 consecutive working days, so it is hoped that the structure will be completed by the autumn. The Telford foundation of the driveway connecting with it on the western side of the valley is laid up, but work has not yet been commenced on its approaches from the east, for which, in addition to other work, an appropriation is now being asked by the Commissioner of Parks from the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Stone for the foundation of paths in various parts of the grounds is being quarried in the rear of the museum building 43 this winter and assembled along the lines which it is planned to build during the year, taking advantage of the frozen ground for cartage. These paths, it is proposed, shall include one from the herbaceous garden northeasterly along the western border of the woods and past the museum building to the lakes, one from the herbaceous garden southerly through the woods to the southern border of the Garden reservation, and a considerable portion of those planned on the fruticetum plain north of the museum building, perhaps extending one of them northward to the Newell Avenue Bridge at the northern end of the Garden now practically completed. The rock excavations in the rear of the museum building at the same time prepare the ground there for the grading necessary to establish the future court of that structure, for which drainage is also being provided by the building of a drain about 450 feet long from the museum building to the upper lake. The collection of living orchids of the Missouri Botanical Garden at St. Louis, were completely destroyed by smoke, from an accidental fire in the cellar of the greenhouse containing them, on November 7, and many plants of great scientific value were killed in this way. It has been a great pleasure to contribute seventy-seven species of orchids from our duplicates, to help Professor Trelease in re- forming this collection. 44 ACCESSIONS. LIBRARY ACCESSIONS FROM NOVEMBER 15 TO DECEMBER 31, iyo3. ACLOQUE, A. Flore des environs de Paris. Paris, 1904. Acta Horti Botanici Tiflensis, fasc. 3- 7- Tifiis, 1899- 1903. 5 vols. ( By exchange.) BATTANDIER, J. A., AND TRABUT, B. Flore de V Algkrie. 2me partie, 1" fas-icule. Alger, 1896- 7. BERTOLONI, ANTONIO. Flora Italica. Bononiae, 1834- 56. 10 vols. BERTOLONI, ANTONIO. Flora Italica Cryptogama. Bononiae, 1858- 67. 2 vols. BOSTON. Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Parks, 1- 7 and 12- 28. Boston, 1876- 1903. 28 parts. ( Received from Board of Commissioners.) BOSTON. Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners, 6- 10. Boston, 1899- 1903. 5 vols. ( By exchange.) COUES, ELLIOT, ALLEN, J. A., AND OTHERS. The code of nomenclature adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union. New York, 1892. ( Given by Miss Vail.) FLAGG, WILSON. The woods and by ways of New England. Boston, 1872. FOSLIE, M. Ueber die Laminarien Norwegens. Christiania, 1884. GRAAH, W. A. Narrative of an expedition lo the east coast of Greenland. Translated from the Danish by the late G. Gordon Macdougall. London, 1837. GREMLI, G. Excursionsflora fur die Schweiz. Aarau, 1878. ( Given by Dr. L. M. Underwood.) HAUFE, FRIEDRICH EWALD. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Anatomie und theil-weise der Morphologic einiger Florideen. Gorlitz, 1879. Her Her geniral de P amateur. Paris, 1816- 1827. 8 vols. INDIANA. Department of Geology and Natural Resources. Twenty- sixth Annual Report. Indianapolis, 1903. ( Given- by Dr. L. M. Underwood.) KINDT, LUDWIG. Der Kultur des Kakaobaumes und seine Schddlinge. Hamburg, 1904. KNAPP, W. S. An inaugural dissertation on the properties of Apocynum canna- Unum. Philadelphia, 1826. ( Given by Miss Vail.) KNY, S. Ueber Axillarknospen bei Florideen. Berlin, 1873. KOHL, L. G. Ueber die Organization und Physiologie der Cyanophyceenzdle. Jena, 1903. LINSBAUER, K., LINSBAUER, L., & PORTHEIM, L. R. V. Wiesner und seine Schule. Wien, 1903. MAGNUS, P. Die botanischen Ergebnisse der Nordseefahrt von 21 Juli Us a September, 18J2. Berlin, 1874. MAGNUS, P. Zur Morphologie der Sphacelarieen nebst Bemerkungen uber die Ablenkung des Vegetationspunktes der Hauptachse durch den nahe am Schettel angelegt werdenden Tochterspross. Berlin, 1873. MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT. Evolution and adaptation. New York, 1903. ( Given by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. ) PENNSYLVANIA, Department of Forestry. Statement of work during IOOI and 1902. Harrisburg, 1902. ( Byexchange.) 45 PORTER, THOMAS CONRAD. Flora of Pennsylvania. Edited, with the addition of analytical keys, by John Kunkel Small. Boston, 1903. ( Given by Dr. J. K. Small.) POST, TOM VON & KUNTZE, OTTO. Lexicon generum phanerogamarum inde ab anno MDCCXXX VII cum nomenclatura legitima internationali et systemate inter recentia medio. Stuttgart, 1904. ( Given by the Torrey Botanical Club.) RABENHORST, S. Beitrage zur naheren Kenntniss und Verbreitung der Algen. Heft 1. Leipzig, 1863. RACIBORSKI, M. Parasitische Algen und Pilze Javas, 1- 3. Batavia, 1900. ROSTAFINSKI, J. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Tange. Heft I. Leipzig, 1876. SCHIMPER, A. F . W. Plant- geography upon a physiological basis. Translated by William R. Fisher. Part 1- 2. Oxford, 1903. SCHLITZBERGER, S. Zur Nutzung und Warming! Ein Buch fur j'edermam, enthaliend unsere hdufigeren essaren und die dahselben dhnlichen gijtigen Pilze. Cas-sel, no date. ( Given by Dr. L. M. Underwood.) SCHUMANN, KARL. Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen. Nachtrage 1898- 1902. SONDER, W. Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Hamburg, 1871. STRASBURGER, E., NOLL, F., SCHENCK, H., & KARSTEN, G. Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Hochschulen. Jena, 1904. TOBACCO. Institut R. Experimental pour les cultures des tabacs : Monographie par le directeur Dr. Leonard Angeloni. Naples, 1900. {^> y exchange.) TOBACCO. R. Instituto Spermentale di Scafati. Bollettino tecnico. Vol. 2. Torre Annunziata, 1903. ( By exchange.) TOBACCO. R. Instituto Spermentale per le colivazione dei tabacchi e la vinta del VII° Congresso Internazionale d' Agricoltura. Torre Annunziata, 1903. ( Byexchange. ) TOBACCO. Representazione grafica della produzione del Tobacco in Italia. Napoli, 1900. ( By exchange.) TURRE, GEORGIO A. Catalogus plantarum horti Patavini. Patavii, 1660. West Virginia. Agricultural Experiment Station. Third Annual Report. Charleston, 1891. WILLE, N. Beitrage zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der physiologischen Gewebesys-teme bei einigen Florideen. Halle, 1887. 152 dissertations on botanical and kindred subjects. ( Given by the Trustees of Columbia University.) BOOKS DEPOSITED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DURING 1903. BEHRENS, J. Nutzpflanzen. Leipzig, 1900. CANNON, W. A. Studies in plant hybrids. New York, 1903. HARRIS, G. H. Indian bread root of the Senecas. Waterloo, 1890. HAZEN, TRACY ELLIOT. Ulothricaceae and Chaetophoriaceae of the United States. New York, 1902. Doctors' Dissertation at Columbia University, Faculty of Pure Science. H I N E S , C. F. Leaf prints or glimpses at photography. Philadelphia, 1868. Paleontographica. Supplement 3, I - I I . Cassel, 1875- 1882. 2 vols. MARTIUS, K. F. P. VON. Flora Brasiliensis. Vol. 3, pars 5. Monachii, 1897- 1902. MlGULA, W. Pflanzenbiologie. Leipzig, 1900. REICHE, CARLOS. Flora de Chile. Vol. 3. 1902. 46 REINECKE, F. & MIGULA, W. Das Pfianzenreich. Leipzig, 1900. RENAULT, B. Contributions de paleontologie vegetate. Paris, 1875. SAPORTA, GASTON DE. Observations sur la nature des vegilaux rfanis dans le groupe des Noeggerathia. Paris, 1878. SAPORTA, GASTON DE. Sur la prisence supposee des proteacees d'Australie dans la fore de V Europe ancienne. Paris, no date. SMITH, JOHN D ' NNELL. Enumeratio platitarum Guatemalensium. Pars VI. Oquawka, 1903. ( Given by Dr. N. L. Britton.) SQUIN ABOL, S. Contribuzione alia flora fossile dei terreni tertziarii della Liguria. Geneva, 1891 STEVENS, WILLIAM C. Introduction to botany. Boston, 1902. WETHAM, HENRY. Observations on fossil vegetables. Edinburgh, 1831. MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM, JANUARY, 1904. 4 museum specimens of fruits for collection of North American Dendrology. ( Given by Mr. L. R. Abrams.) 3 specimens of Petasites palmata from Massachusetts. ( Given by Prof. F. E. Lloyd.) 100 specimens, " Fungi Columbiani," Century 19. ( Distributed by Mr. E. Bartholomew.) 20 specimens of mosses from Wyoming and Utah. ( Collected by Messrs. R. N. Goodding and A. Nelson.) 1 museum specimen of Japanese persimmons. ( Given by Mr. T. C. Greene.) 1 museum specimen oi Hicoria from Georgia. ( Given by Mr. R. M. Harper.) 3 herbarium specimens from New Jersey and Long Island. ( By exchange with Dr. A. J. Grout and Mr. J. B. Brainerd.) 4 herbarium specimens from the eastern United States. ( Given by Mr. S. H. Burnham.) 27 mosses from Minnesota. ( By exchange with Mr. J. M. Holzinger.) 1 museum specimen of Ipomoea arborescens from Mexico. ( Given by Dr. D. T. MacDougal.) 8 specimens oi Salix from Ontario. ( Given by Mr. W. Herriot.) 62 herbarium specimens from Utah, Idaho and Montana. ( Byexchange with Oberlin College.) 28 specimens of woody fungi from Pennsylvania. ( By exchange with Prof. D. R. Sumstine.) 69 herbarium specimens from central New York. ( By exchange with Mr. H. D. House.) 12 photographs of western American trees. ( Given by Professor E. 0 . Wooton.) l museum specimen, a black thorn cane. ( Given by Mr. Wm. Gaynor.) I herbarium specimen of Covillea from California. ( Given by Mr. C. De Kalb,) 13 museum specimens of medicinal plants of the Cheyenne Indians. ( Given by Mr. Geo. B. Grinnell.) 205 herbarium specimens from western North America. ( Collected by Mr. H. M. Hall.) I photograph of the tideland spruce from Oregon. ( Given by Mr. E. P. Sheldon.) 3,003 specimens of Algae mainly from North America, Mauritius and Portugal. ( Collected by Col. Nicolas Pike.) I specimen of Corsinga marchantioides from Italy. ( Given by Miss C. C. Haynes.) 47 5,500 specimens of pteridophytes, being the herbarium of Professor L. M. Underwood. 25 plant photographs and plates. ( Given by Miss A. M. Vail). 52 specimens of violets. ( Given by Mr. Witmer Stone.) 17 herbarium specimens from the Bahamas. ( Given by Mrs. J. I. Northrop.) 16 specimens of hepatics from Maine and Washington. ( Given by Miss H. B. Bailey.) 2 museum specimens oi Hepaticae from the Adirondacks. ( Given by Miss C. C. Haynes.) 7 herbarium specimens from Florida. ( Given by Mr. S. Rapp.) 1 specimen of Chenopodium carinatum from Texas. ( Given by Mr. K. K. MacKenzie. ) 225 specimens of European fungi. ( Distributed by Messrs. J. C. Schmidt and G. Kunze.) 20 specimens of marine algae from Nova Scotia. ( Given by Miss Evelyn Benedict. ) 2 photographs of European pines. ( Given by Mr. G. R. Shaw.) 3 specimens of Karwinskia Humboldtiana. ( Collected by Dr. D. T. MacDougal.) I specimen oi Rhus littoralis. ( By exchange with the U. S. National Museum.) 1 specimen of Frullania Eboracensis from New York. ( Given by Mr. H. D. House.) 5 herbarium specimens from New Mexico. ( By exchange with Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.) 31 herbarium specimens from Colorado. ( By exchange with the Colorado College of Agriculture.) 5 herbarium specimens from Colorado. ( Byexchange with Mr. Geo. Osterhout.) 425 herbarium specimens from Illinois. ( By exchange with Mr. F. E. 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Description-Table Of Contents | George Washington's Palms (Plates XX. and XXI.); The Economic Museum (illustrated); Interesting Plants in Flower in the Conservatories; Publications of the Staff and Students of the New York Botanical Garden during 1903; Botanical Exploration of the Philippine Islands; Accessions. |
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Transcript | Vol. V FEBRUARY. 1904 No. 50 JOURNAL The New York Botanical Garden EDITOR DANIEL TREMBLY MACDOUGAL Director of the Laboratories CONTENTS PAG 11 George Washington's Palms ( Plates XX. and XXI.) 25 The Economic Museum ( illustrated) . . . 28 Interesting Plants in Flower in the Conservatories 31 Publications of the Staff and Students of the New York Botanical Garden during 1903 33 Botanical Exploration of the Philippine Islands 40 Accessions 43 PUBLISHED FOR THE GARDEN AT 41 NORTH QUEEN STREET, LANCASTER, PA. BT THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY OKFTTCECRS, 1 9 0 4 . PRESIDENT— D. O. MILLS, VICE- PRESIDENT— ANDREW CARNEGIE, TREASURER— CHARLES F. COX, SECRETARY— N. L. BRITTON. B O A R D O K M A N A G E R S . 1. ELECTED MANAGERS. ANDREW CARNEGIE, J. PIERPONT MORGAN, W. BAYARD CUTTING, GEORGE W. PERKINS, ROBERT W. DE FOREST, JAMES A. SCRYMSER, JOHN I. KANE, SAMUEL SLOAN, D. O. MILLS, W. GILMAN THOMPSON, SAMUEL THORNE. 2. EX- OFFICIO MANAGERS. THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, HON. JOHN J. PALLAS. THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, HON. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN. 3. SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS PROF. L. M. UNDERWOOD, Chairman. HON. ADDISON BROWN, PROF. J. F. KEMP, DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, PROF. FREDERICK S. LEE, PROF. C F. CHANDLER, HON. HENRY A.. ROGERS, CHARLES F. COX, PROF. H. K. RUSBY G A R D E N S T A F F . DR. N. L. BRITTON, Director- in- Chief. DR. D. T. MACDOUGAL, First Assistant. DR. JOHN K. SMALL, Curator of the Museums. DR. P. A. RYDBERG, Assistant Curator. DR. ARTHUR HOLLICK, Assistant Curator. DR. MARSHALL A. HOWE, Assistant Curator. F. S. EARLE, Assistant Curator. GEORGE V. NASH, Head Gardener. ANNA MURRAY VAIL, Librarian. DR. H. H. RUSBY, Curator of the Economic Collections. DR. WM. J. GIES, Consulting Chemist. COL. F. A. SCHILLING, Superintendent. JOHN R. BRINLEY, Landscape Engineer. WALTER S. GROESBECK, Clerk and Accountant. DR. JOHN HENDLEY BARNHART, Editorial Assistant. JOHN A. SHAFER, Museum Custodian. JOURNAL OF The New York Botanical Garden VOL. V. February, 1904. No. 50 GEORGE WASHINGTON'S PALMS. The name Washingtonia was first proposed by Wendland in 1879 ( Bot. Zeitung, 3 7 : 68) for the palm which had then been known for some years in Europe as Brahea filifera and Pritchardia filifera; Wendland showed that it was generically different from either Brahea, a Mexican genus of two or three species, and from Pritchardia of the South Sea islands. This palm first became known in Europe from seeds obtained by the nurseryman Linden, of Ghent, apparently as early as 1869, but he does not seem to have recorded the source from which they came. It is stated in Revue Horticole, 48 : 373, 1876, that the plant was introduced into cultivation by Linden in 1871 under the name Pritchardia filifera, and that it was also listed in his catalogue no. 96 as Brahea filamentosa. It was exhibited as Pritchardia filifera at the quinquennial horticultural exhibition held at Ghent in 1873, by Linden, together with other palms new to cultivation. ( See Illustration Horticole, 20 : 98 ; no description of it is there given, however.) As to the origin of the seeds, Watson ( Proceedings Amer. Acad. 2 5 : 136) cites evidence to show that they were collected in Cantilles Canon, northern Lower California. Drude says, however ( Botanische Zeitung, 34: 806, 1876), that the plant then known as Pritchardia filamentosa was obtained by Roezl in northern Mexico, near Arizona, on the Colorado River; this origin is also given in Revue Horticole, 48 : 374, and the differences of the palm from either Brahea or Pritchardia are discussed. 25 26 This species has nearly upright leaves with narrow lobes which droop at the tips, and slender stalks which are slightly prickly, the prickles very short. We have only small specimens of it at the Garden as yet, raised from seeds obtained from a Californian nursery. In 1883 ( Garten Zeitung, 2 : 198) Wendland described a second species of the genus under the name Washingtonia robusta, from plants sent him by Van Houtte, of Ghent, which he says originated on the Sacramento River, California, which is unlikely, inasmuch as none of the group are known to grow naturally so far to the north ; this species is much more fully described by Andre in Revue Horticole, 57: 401- 404, 1885, where it is also illustrated. It has spreading darker green leaves than the one first known, their stouter stalks armed with stout curved yellow prickles often half an inch long, the lobes of the leaves relatively broader and less abundantly provided with the characteristic fibrils which resemble those of palmettos { Inodes). It was almost certainly derived from southern California, where it grows plentifully in isolated oases in the desert in San Diego County. A view of one of these palm oases taken from a photograph secured by Dr. MacDougal and Mr. Coville while studying the best locality for establishing the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution is shown on the accompanying plate ( Plate XX.); the trees are about fifty feet high, and their old leaves remain attached to the trunk for several years after wilting. The Garden has recently received as a gift from Mr. C. M. Hyde a very fine pair of these palms, with trunks about seven feet high and leaves four feet in diameter ; they are exhibited in the central house of the public conservatories, and are represented on the accompanying plate made from a photograph ( Plate XXL). This Washingtonia robusta of Wendland is the same plant as the specimen figured by Sargent in Silva of North America, 10 : 47, plate 509, as IV. filamentosa. As yet there is no certain evidence that the original W. filamentosa occurs wild within the United States, though Watson remarks ( Proc. Amer. Acad. 2 5 : 137) that it probably exists in the mountains bordering the Colorado River north of the Mexican boundary. JOURNAL OF THE NEW YORK ISOTANICAI. GARDEN. PLATE X> Nemvashingtonia robusta in Conservatory, New York Botanical Garden. 27 This " Desert Palm" is said by Dr. Parry to have been noticed by the botanists of the Mexican Boundary Survey, and this would throw its first observation by plantsmen back to 1855, but the first reference to it in literature appears to be by Dr. Cooper ( Smithsonian Report, i 8 6 0 : 342. 1861) who erroneously and doubtfully referred it to Brahea dulcis Martius, a South American palm. It was early planted at the missions. A very interesting account of it appears in Garden and Forest, 3 : 51, 1890, written by Mr. G. B. Parish. It is known in southern California also as Fan Palm and San Diego Palm, and additional notes upon it are given by Mr. S. B. Parish in the same volume of that journal ( 3 : 542), where he discusses the probability of its being W. robusta and not W. filamentosa. There is a fine specimen of the Desert Palm in the conservatories of the National Botanical Garden at Washington, with a trunk about 4 meters high, leaf- stalks 1 dm. wide at the base, the large leaves nearly 2 meters in diameter. Mr. Smith tells me that this plant is about 30 years old, and that he raised it from seed given him by a congressman from California. Watson, in 1889 ( Proceedings Amer. Acad. 24 : 79) described a third species from specimens sent by Dr. E. Palmer from Guaymas, Sonora, under the name Washingtonia Sonorae ; this palm grew in secluded canons in the mountains. Watson remarks that it differs from the others in its more slender leafstalks, paler leaves and smaller fruit; the leaf- stalks are described by him in the same journal the next year, from specimens collected by Palmer at La Paz, southern Lower California, as armed with stout curved prickles as in robusta, but these are partly covered with a web of woolly hairs. He records that the Guaymas plant reaches 8 meters in height with a trunk a foot in diameter, and that its fruit is used for food by the Indians. We have young plants raised from seed supposed to be of this species. In revising the nomenclature of the arborescent flora of the United States, Sudworth noticed that the name Washingtonia, applied to these beautiful and interesting palms by Wendland, was preoccupied by its use for other plants by authors previous to Wendland ; he therefore proposed for the palms the name Neowashingtonia, by which they are now known ( Bulletin U. S. Dept. Agric, Div. Forestry, 14: 1897). In order to ascertain the exact botanical characters of the group, and whether there are really three species, or the described forms are forms of a single species, complete herbarium specimens accompanied by photographs are desiderata. The cultivated plants seem to differ considerably in their leaves, and if the species are good, accompanying differences should be found in the flowers and fruit. N. L. BRITTON. THE ECONOMIC MUSEUM. The recent building of additional exhibition cases has made possible a considerable development of the Economic Museum of the first floor of the museum building. The amount of case-space added to that previously occupied by the economic collections amounts to about one hundred per cent., and besides relieving the congested condition of the collections, the installation of this new furniture has given a much more balanced and finished appearance to the museum halls ; about three fifths of the available space for cases on this floor is now occupied. The standard cases are now grouped in rectangular blocks of four or six units. In the main east and west halls the blocks are composed of six units, while in the wings they are composed of four. The floor plan on the opposite page indicates the positions of the several blocks of cases. The specimens contained in the original equipment of cases have been spread out into the new cases and a large number of specimens hitherto necessarily stored in the basement have been interpolated and are being permanently arranged as rapidly as the labels can be printed. During this general rearrangement of the exhibits, there has been no change from the general plan previously adopted for this museum and already described in the BULLETIN of the Garden.* * Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2 : 27 and 28. [ Qj bd— ET" 30 Reference to the floor plan and its accompanying legend will indicate the relative position of the various groups of plants and plant- products now comprising the economic collection. Foods and fibers occupy the west hall ; the former in cases on the north side, the latter on the south. The west wing is mainly given over to exhibits other than foods, fibers, drugs and woods. The east hall contains the drugs, while the east wing is set aside for the woods and wood products. The contents of the museum may be briefly outlined as follows : * Blocks numbered I, 2 and 3 contain fibers. The cases adjacent to the center of the building, and the entrance, are given over to cotton and cotton products, the most important of the fibers of vegetable origin, while in the succeeding cases are displayed various other economic fibers and fiber products arranged in the sequence of the natural families. Block 4 contains rubber and gums and resins. Block 5 is occupied by a fine collection of vanilla and tonka beans, licorice and spices. Block 6 is given over to fodders. Block 7 contains tobacco, mastica-tories and the miscellaneous plant products. Block 8 contains the various beverages. Block 9 is given over to the fixed and volatile oils, including the crude materials from which the oils are derived and their bye- products. Block 10 contains the specimens of sugars and starches. Block 11 is divided between specimens of wood- and straw- paper and cork. Blocks numbered 12, 13 and 14, consisting of the same number of units that are given over to the fibers, are occupied by the foods. Here as in the case of the fibers the same general plan of arrangement has been adopted, thus the cases adjacent to the center of the building are given over to the specimens of the cereals, which taken together represent the most important foods of vegetable origin, and following these are the other foods, mostly fruits, primarily divided, as nearly as possible into two groups, the dry and the juicy, each group arranged in the sequence of the natural families. The six blocks numbered 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 contain the drug- plants and drugs. In these the specimens are divided * The numbers of the blocks of exhibition cases used in the succeeding paragraphs refer to those on the floor plan accompanying this article. 31 into two series, which maybe designated as crude drugs and prepared drugs. The crude drugs are arranged morphologically beginning with the roots and rootstocks and followed by stems, barks, leaves, inflorescences, flowers, fruits, seeds, and the whole plant. The east wing is given over to the woods and wood products. Blocks numbered 21, 22, 23 and 24 contain specimens of woods from many parts of the world, while block 30 contains various wood products and carbons. Blocks 25 to 35 are made of cases of special design, devised to exhibit the North American trees by means of examples of the wood, accompanied by drawings, photographs, fruits and various other illustrative specimens. J. K. SMALL. INTERESTING PLANTS IN FLOWER IN THE CONSERVATORIES. Among the bananas in house no. 4 is one which attracts universal attention on account of its stately tall stems and beautiful leaves, both more or less tinged with dull red. • This is the red banana, called Ram- Kela in India, Musa sapientum rubra. The specimen referred to is now in full fruit for the first time. In this same house is also a large plant of the coral Pitcairnia, P. corallina, of Colombia, with its coral red drooping racemes just making their appearance. This will be a fine sight in the course of a week or two. Its leaves are five to six feet high, erect, and with a beautiful silvery under surface. In great contrast to this, and situated on the opposite side of the same house, is a large plant of Dombeya Wallichii, from Madagascar, with its large pendulous ball- like inflorescences of red flowers. Even in the necessarily restricted quarters of a conservatory it is an odd and attractive plant, with its large striking leaves and inflorescence, so what must it be in its native country where it can develop to its best! In the immediate vicinity is another interesting plant, this time from the standpoint of economics. This is the chocolate tree, 32 Theobroma Cacao, from which both chocolate and cocoa are manufactured. There is a group of four plants, three of which now bear nearly mature fruit, and one of them is also well in flower. Unlike most plants, this bears its flowers and fruit on the trunk or at the base of the branches, instead of near the end of the branches. The fruit contains five rows of seeds, a fully developed one having from 50 to 75 seeds. It is from these seeds, commonly called chocolate beans, that the economic products are produced. Right across the path from this is a large plant of Medinilla magnifica, from the Philippines, now sending out a profusion of its large panicles of bright pink flowers and floral bracts. It promises to be a handsome attraction in a few days. In no. 5, one of the succulent houses, several species of the aloes and gasterias are blooming. As these are all from southern Africa, where summer now holds forth, their flowering so freely at present is explained. One cannot refrain from expressing surprise that these homely but interesting plants should send forth such richly colored flowers. Another plant in this house, now in full bloom, is the odd Kalanchoe marmorata, from Abyssinia, with its long white flowers, quite exceptional in the genus, and fleshy marbled leaves. In house no. 8 a number of interesting Begonias are in bloom, among them the unusual B. nelumbiifolia, from the West Indies, with its immense leaves and large panicles of white flowers. Among the orchids in house no. 15, the most conspicuous for the past two weeks, and still continuing so, is a group of about a dozen plants of Laelia anceps in full bloom, their long graceful wand- like stems and rosy flowers making them very attractive. Not quite so showy, but much more unusual, is a large plant of Cattleya granulosa Russelliana. This was imported directly from Pernambuco, Brazil, the past summer, and is now in full flower with thirteen flowering stems containing an aggregate of thirty-five flowers. The yellowish- green petals and sepals with the small brown spots make quite a contrast with the white lip flushed with red, and also with the Cattleyas of the labiata type likewise now in bloom nearby. This variety Russelliana differs from the 33 type in having the parts of the perianth marked with fewer and smaller spots, and in having the blade of the lip broader and more pronounced. The Australian acacias, in house no. 13, are in full bloom. Conspicuous among these at present are : A. longifolia, with its yellow flowers borne in racemes ; A. cyanophylla, with its drooping branches, blue curiously curved leaves, and balls of yellow flowers ; and the dainty feathery A. dasyphylla, producing an effect quite unlike the others. In the large palm house there are many plants which are always interesting, whether in bloom or not. Perhaps the one of unusual interest at the present time to the lover of these stately plants, is a small member of the collection, a native of the Sandwich Islands. This is Pritchardia Martii, which flowered for the first time with us during January. It sent out three large panicles of deep yellow flowers, which added much to its attractiveness. It is one of those plants which by the stately manner of bearing its leaves gives one the impression of greater size than it really possesses, for, tub and all, it stands only about eight feet high. GEORGE V. NASH. PUBLICATIONS OF THE STAFF AND STUDENTS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN DURING THE YEAR 1903. Barnhart, J. H. Duplicate Binomials. Torreya, 3 : 142, 143. 26 S 1903. Britton, E. G. The European Species of Sematophyllum. Jour. Bot. 40: 353- 355- 1 O 1902.* Sematophyllum recurvans. Bryologist, 6 : 1- 3. pl. 1. Ja 1903. ( 27 D 1902.) The Jenman Collection of Ferns. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 85, 86. My 1903. * This title was accidentally omitted in the bibliographical list for 1902, published in tbe JOURNAL of February, 1903. 34 Britton, E. G. Notes on Nomenclature — II. Bryologist, 6: 42, 43. 5 My 1903. West Indian Mosses in Florida. Bryologist, 6 : 58- 61. 1 Jl 1903. The Splachnums. Bryologist, 6 : 91- 93. / / . / / . 2 N 1903. Britton, N. L. Address of Dr. N. L. Britton, Director- in- Chief of the New York Botanical Garden. Addresses delivered before the North Side Board of Trade, January 27, 1903. 15, 16. 1903. Resident Research Scholarships at the New York Botanical Garden. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 25, 26. F 1903. An undescribed Eleocharis from Pennsylvania. Torreya, 3 : 23 . 24- / • 1, 2- 19 F ! 9° 3- Research Funds of the Scientific Alliance of New York. Science, II. 17: 314, 315. 20 F 1903. The Bronx Park Station of the Manhattan Railway. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 4 1 - 4 4 . / . 1. Mr 1903. Report of the Secretary and Director- in- Chief for the Year 1902. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2: 409- 437. 18 Mr 1903. Timothy Field Allen. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 173- 177. Portrait. 8 Ap 1903. Report of the Director- in- Chief upon Exploration in Cuba. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 95- 99. / . 12, IJ. Je 1903. A new Species of Urera. Torreya, 3 : 90, 91. 12 Je 1903- A new Waltheria from the Bahamas. Torreya, 3 : 105, 106. 25 Jl 1903. A new Lippia from Porto Rico. Torreya, 3 : 105. 25 Jl 1903. New Paths at the southern End of the Garden. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 128, 129. Au 1903. The " Newell Avenue" Bridge. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 3 : 132. / . 1 j . Au 1903. A new Appropriation for Construction. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 149, 150. S 1903. 35 Britton, N. L. Report on Cuban Exploration. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 193, 194. N 1903. Flora of the Southeastern United States. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 215, 216. N 1903. [ Review.] The Rose Mallows. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 219, 220. pl. 1 j , 18. D 1903. Cornelius Van Brunt. Torreya, 3 : 177- 179. Portrait. 22 D 1903. & Rose, J. N. New or noteworthy North American Crassulaceae. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 3 : 1- 45. 12 S 1903. Cannon, W. A. Studies in Plant Hybrids : The Spermatogenesis of Hybrid Cotton. Bull. Torrey Club, 30: 133- 172. / / . 7, 8. 8 Ap 1903. Studies in Plant Hybrids : The Spermatogenesis of Hybrid Peas. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 519- 543. pl. ij- ic). 5 O 1903. Earle, F. S. Report on a Trip to Jamaica. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 1- 10. Ja 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Cortinarius — II. Torreya, 2 : 180- 183. 8 Ja 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Stropharia. Torreya, 3 : 24, 25, 19 F 1903. A Key to the North America Species of Lentinus— I. Torreya, 3 : 35- 38. 20 Mr 1903; — II. 3 : 58- 60. 18 Ap 1903. Report on a Trip to eastern Cuba. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 81- 85. My 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Panus. Torreya, 3 : 86, 87. 12 Je 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Pluteolus. Torreya, 3 : 124, 125. 22 Au 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Galera. Torreya, 3 : 134- 136- 26 S 1903. A Key to the North American Species of Inocybe— I. Torreya, 3 : 168- 170. 19 N 1903 ; — II. 3 : 183,184. 22 D 1903. 36 George, D. S. The Preservation of Native Plants. Plant World, 6: 159- 162. Jl 1903. Gies, W. J. Chemical Studies of the Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 37- 39. F 1903. True, R. H. &. On the physiological Action of some of the heavy Metals in mixed Solutions. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 390- 402. 10 Jl 1903. Haynes, C. C. Some interesting Hepaticae from Maine. Torreya, 3 : 40, 41. 20 Mr 1903. Hollick, A. Palaeobotany. New International Encyc. 1903. A fossil Petal and a fossil Fruit from the Cretaceous ( Dakota Group) of Kansas. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 102- 105./. A, B. 28 F 1903. Fossil Plants from Kansas. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 6 6 - 6 8 . / 8. Ap. 1903. Howe, M. A. Report of Dr. M. A. Howe, Assistant Curator, on a Trip to Florida. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4: 44- 49- / • 2- 5- Mr 1903. Grout's Mosses with Hand- Lens and Microscope. Torreya, 3 : 106, 107. 25 Jl 1903. [ Review.] Report on a Trip to Porto Rico by Dr. M. A. Howe, Assistant Curator. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 171- 1 7 6 . / 18- 21. O 1903. A Note on the " Flowering" of the Lakes in the Adirondacks. Torreya, 3 : 150- 154. 30 O 1903. & Underwood, L. M. The Genus Riella, with Descriptions of new Species from North America and the Canary Islands. Bull. Torrey Club, 3 0 : 214- 224. pl. 11, 12. 24 Ap 1903. King, C. A. Explosive Discharge of Antherozoids in Cono-cephalum. Torreya, 3 : 60, 61. 18 Ap 1903. Kupfer, E. M. Anatomy and Physiology of Baccharis genistel-loides. Bull. Torrey Club, 3 0 : 6 8 5 - 6 9 6 . / / - / / . 5 D 1903. MacDougal, D. T. The Influence of Light and Darkness upon Growth and Development. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : i- xiii + 1 - 3 1 9 . / I- IJ6. 20 Ja 1903. 37 MacDougal, D. T. Report of the Director of the Laboratories. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 452- 458. 18 Mr 1903. Kuster's Pathologische Pflanzenanatomie. Science, II. * 7 : 9° 5. 9° 6- 5 Je 1903. [ Review.] Soil Temperatures and Vegetation. Monthly Weather Review, 31 : 375- 379. / i- f. Au 1903. Some Correlations of Leaves. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 503- 512. / 1,2. 3 S 1903. Mutation in Plants. Am. Naturalist, 37 : 737- 770. / 1- 10. N 1903. Some Aspects of Desert Vegetation. Plant World, 6 : 249- 257. / / . 32- 36 ; f. 1- 5. N 1903. Morgan's Evolution and Adaptation. Torreya, 3 : 185- 187. 22 D 1903. [ Review.] Murrill, W. A. A new Family of the Basidiomycetes. Torreya, 3 : 7 . 26 Ja 1903. The Polyporaceae of North America — II. The Genus Pyropolyporus. Bull. Torrey Club, 3 0 : 109- 120. 28 F 1903. The Polyporaceae of North America — III. The Genus Fomes. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 225- 232. 24 Ap 1903. The Polyporaceae of North America — IV. The Genus Elfvingia. Bull. Torrey Club, 30: 296- 301. 16 My 1903. A historical Review of the Genera of the Polyporaceae. Jour. Mycol. 9 : 87- 102. 29 My 1903. The Polyporaceae of North America — V. The Genera Crvptoporus, Piptoporus, Scutiger and Porodiscus. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 423- 434. 4 Au 1903. Nash, G. V. The Palm Collection. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 12- 22. pl. 11- 13. Ja 1903. Some interesting Plants in Bloom in the Conservatories. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 50, 51. Mr 1903. Report of the Head Gardener. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 472- 479. 18 Mr 1903. Interesting Plants in Bloom. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 6 8 - 7 0 . / p. Ap 1903. 38 Nash, G. V. The Palm Collection at the New York Botanical Garden. Plant World, 6 : 82- 86. / / . 15. Ap 1903. A large Collection of Conifers for the Pinetum. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 87. My 1903. Recent Additions to the Palm and Cycad Collections. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 102- 104. Je 1903. The Tree- Fern House. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4: 119- 126. Jl 1903. A preliminary Enumeration of the Grasses of Porto Rico. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 369- 389. 10 Jl 1903. A new Aletris from Florida. Torreya, 3 : 101, 102. 25 Jl 1903. The Herbaceous Grounds. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4: 127, 128. pl. 16. Au 1903. The Flowering of a rare Florida Palm. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 129, 130. Au 1903. A Revision of the Family Fouquieriaceae. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 449- 459. 4 Au 1903. Report on Exploration in Hayti. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 2 0 5 - 2 1 5 . / 26- 2C). N 1903. A new Bamboo from Cuba. Torreya, 3 : 172, 173. 19 N 1903. Rennert, R. J. The Phyllodes of Oxypolls filiformis, a swamp Xerophyte. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 4 0 3 - 4 1 1 . / 1- 3. 10 Jl 1903. Robinson, C. B. The Distribution of Fucus serratus in America. Torreya, 3 : 132- 134. 26 S 1903. Robinson, W. J. Hcxalectris aphyllus, a true Saprophyte. Torreya, 3 : 1 1 6 - 1 2 0 . / 1- 3. 22 Au 1903. Rusby, H. H. Report of the Curator of the'Economic Collections. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 450, 451. 18 Mr 1903. Commercial Jaborandi. Bull. Pharm. 17: 409- 411. O 1903. [ Illust.] Vegetable Foods. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 176- 186. O 1903. Jamaica Sarsaparilla from Honduras? Druggists Circ. and Chem. Gaz. 4 7 : 2 2 4 - 2 2 6 . / 1- 10. N 1903. 39 Rusby, H. H. [ Articles on Vegetable Materia Medica and Therapeutics ; in] Buck's Reference Hand- book of the Medical Sciences, 6 : 1— 951. 1903; 7 : 1- 1004. 1903. Rydberg, P. A. A recent Monograph of Campanula rotundifolia and its Allies. Torreya, 3 : 9- 12. 26 Ja 1903. Studies on the Rocky Mountain Flora— X. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 247- 262. 24 Ap 1903. Some generic Segregations. Bull. Torrey Club, 30: 271- 281. pl. 13, if.. 16 My 1903. Small, J. K. Report of the Curator of the Museums and Herbarium. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 438- 449. 18 Mr 1903. Flora of the Southeastern United States. 8vo. Pp. i- xii + 1- 1370. 22 Jl 1903. The Habitats of Polypodium polypodioides. Torreya, 3 : 141. 26 S 1903. Vail, A. M. Jonas Bronck and his Bouwery in New Amsterdam. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 32- 37. F 1903. Report of the Librarian. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 2 : 459- 471. 18 Mr 1903 . Studies in the Asclepiadaceae— VII. A new Species of Vincetoxicum from Alabama. Bull. Torrey Club, 30 : 178, 179. pl. 9, 10. 8 Ap 1903. Report on a Trip to France and Holland by Miss A. M. Vail, Librarian. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 141- 149. S 1903. The Exposition of the National Society of Horticulture of France. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 134- 138. Au 1903. Additions to the Library. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 7 0 - 7 4 . / 10, 11. Ap 1903. Williams, R. S. Psilopilum Tschuctschicum C. Muell. Bryologist, 6 : 3 8 . 4 Mr 1903. Oedipodium Gnjfilhianum ( Dicks.) Schwaegr. Bryologist, 6 : 47, 48. 5 My 1903. A collecting Trip to Bolivia. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 58- 66. / 6, 7. Ap 1903; Plant World, 6 : 132- 135. Je 1903. [ Abridged.] 40 Williams, R. S. Additional Mosses of the upper Yukon River. Bryologist, 6: 61, 62. 1 Jl 1903. Bolivian Mosses. Part I. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 3: 104- 134- 19 O I9° 3- Wilson, P. Report of Percy Wilson on Exploration in Honduras. Jour. N. Y. Bot. Garden, 4 : 99- 102. Je 1903. BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. In the autumn of 1903 the Board of Managers authorized the commencement of botanical exploration in the Philippine Archipelago, and made a preliminary appropriation for that purpose, and work was inaugurated in September by sending Mr. R. S. Williams to Manila to make collections in cooperation with the Insular Bureaus of Agriculture and Forestry; he arrived at Manila early in November and at once commenced making collections on the Island of Luzon ; under date of December 5, 1903, he writes that his first shipment of specimens will be dispatched from Manila within a few days from that time and should reach the Garden during February; it is hoped that Mr. Williams will be able to remain in the Philippines for a year or more, conducting this important work, and that when he returns it will be possible to send another collector there so as to continue the exploration for a series of years. The Garden has recently received through Mr. Elmer D. Merrill, the botanist of the Bureau of Government Laboratories of Manila, several thousand specimens obtained by him in various parts of the Archipelago, and we had previously received through the United States National Museum a considerable collection made in the islands by Mr. A. Loher. In addition to this material, and that now being obtained by Mr. Williams, there is contained in the Columbia University herbarium, on deposit at the Garden, a set of the botanical collections made by Mr. Hugh Cuming, an English 41 nautralist who visited the Philippines between 1835 and 1839, and whose collections have been studied by a number of European botanists. This collection is most important, as forming a basis for the study of the flora. The Columbia herbarium also contains a set of the specimens obtained by the United States Pacific Exploring Expedition under Captain Charles Wilkes, in the years 1838 to 1842, including many from the Philippine Islands. In addition to the study of the" herbarium specimens above described, the Garden will grow living plants and seeds obtained by Mr. Williams, who is also under instructions to secure and ship such specimens as he may be able to obtain for the Museums, the plan being to bring together all the plants and plant products of the Philippines that the means at our disposal will permit. At present the work will have to go forward slowly, but it is hoped that funds may be obtained to enlarge it as we proceed. It is planned to keep the herbarium specimens in a series by themselves for a number of years, and thus bring them together in convenient arrangement for study. This part of the work has been put in charge of Mr. C. B. Robinson, a graduate of Dal-housie College, and sometime student at Cambridge, England, who has been a student at the Garden for some months, and has recently been granted a resident research scholarship. N. L. BRITTON. NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. Dr. MacDougal left on January 13 for an inspection of the new Desert Botanical Laboratory of the* Carnegie Institution at Tucson, Arizona, which was described and illustrated in the January number of the JOURNAL. He writes that the plans for the building and its equipment, prepared by Mr. Coville and himself at the request of the Carnegie Institution, were carried out in a very satisfactory manner, and that Dr. Cannon, the resident investigator, has already commenced a series of investigations on desert plants, and that the facilities of the laboratory are already being taken advantage of, Professor Volney M. Spalding, of the University of Michigan, being at work there. 42 Dr. MacDougal spent a day at Langtry, Texas, on his way to Tucson, and shipped from there a small collection of interesting cactuses, which have reached the Garden in safety. After the completion of his examination of the laboratory and consultation with Dr. Cannon he will go on west to Yuma, where arrangements have been made for him to explore botanically the valley of the Colorado River from that point to the mouth of the river, and also the western shore of the northern part of the Gulf of California. As the flora of this region is practically unknown, it is anticipated that his observations and collections will be of very great interest and value. The trip down the river and into the Gulf will be made by boat, and the return will be made overland by wagon. It is expected that Dr. MacDougal will return to the Garden by the first of March. The longest and most expensive bridge to be built in the Garden was arranged for on December 30, by the award of a contract by the Commissioner of Parks to Mr., M. J. Leahy for the sum of $ 69,000, on plans and specifications prepared by Mr. John R. Brinley, landscape gardener. This bridge will carry the main east and west driveway across the valley of the Bronx River, at a point about 400 feet north of the present " Blue Bridge," at the north end of the hemlock forest; it will be built for the most part of rubble stone taken from the surplus rock excavations just east of the public conservatories, with granite trimmings, and its total length will be about 300 feet. There will be five arches, one over the river, two lateral ones to permit rapid passage of flood water, and two small ones near the two ends at the locations of paths. The time allowed to complete the whole work is 200 consecutive working days, so it is hoped that the structure will be completed by the autumn. The Telford foundation of the driveway connecting with it on the western side of the valley is laid up, but work has not yet been commenced on its approaches from the east, for which, in addition to other work, an appropriation is now being asked by the Commissioner of Parks from the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Stone for the foundation of paths in various parts of the grounds is being quarried in the rear of the museum building 43 this winter and assembled along the lines which it is planned to build during the year, taking advantage of the frozen ground for cartage. These paths, it is proposed, shall include one from the herbaceous garden northeasterly along the western border of the woods and past the museum building to the lakes, one from the herbaceous garden southerly through the woods to the southern border of the Garden reservation, and a considerable portion of those planned on the fruticetum plain north of the museum building, perhaps extending one of them northward to the Newell Avenue Bridge at the northern end of the Garden now practically completed. The rock excavations in the rear of the museum building at the same time prepare the ground there for the grading necessary to establish the future court of that structure, for which drainage is also being provided by the building of a drain about 450 feet long from the museum building to the upper lake. The collection of living orchids of the Missouri Botanical Garden at St. Louis, were completely destroyed by smoke, from an accidental fire in the cellar of the greenhouse containing them, on November 7, and many plants of great scientific value were killed in this way. It has been a great pleasure to contribute seventy-seven species of orchids from our duplicates, to help Professor Trelease in re- forming this collection. 44 ACCESSIONS. LIBRARY ACCESSIONS FROM NOVEMBER 15 TO DECEMBER 31, iyo3. ACLOQUE, A. Flore des environs de Paris. Paris, 1904. Acta Horti Botanici Tiflensis, fasc. 3- 7- Tifiis, 1899- 1903. 5 vols. ( By exchange.) BATTANDIER, J. A., AND TRABUT, B. Flore de V Algkrie. 2me partie, 1" fas-icule. Alger, 1896- 7. BERTOLONI, ANTONIO. Flora Italica. Bononiae, 1834- 56. 10 vols. BERTOLONI, ANTONIO. Flora Italica Cryptogama. Bononiae, 1858- 67. 2 vols. BOSTON. Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Parks, 1- 7 and 12- 28. Boston, 1876- 1903. 28 parts. ( Received from Board of Commissioners.) BOSTON. Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners, 6- 10. Boston, 1899- 1903. 5 vols. ( By exchange.) COUES, ELLIOT, ALLEN, J. A., AND OTHERS. The code of nomenclature adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union. New York, 1892. ( Given by Miss Vail.) FLAGG, WILSON. The woods and by ways of New England. Boston, 1872. FOSLIE, M. Ueber die Laminarien Norwegens. Christiania, 1884. GRAAH, W. A. Narrative of an expedition lo the east coast of Greenland. Translated from the Danish by the late G. Gordon Macdougall. London, 1837. GREMLI, G. Excursionsflora fur die Schweiz. Aarau, 1878. ( Given by Dr. L. M. Underwood.) HAUFE, FRIEDRICH EWALD. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Anatomie und theil-weise der Morphologic einiger Florideen. Gorlitz, 1879. Her Her geniral de P amateur. Paris, 1816- 1827. 8 vols. INDIANA. Department of Geology and Natural Resources. Twenty- sixth Annual Report. Indianapolis, 1903. ( Given- by Dr. L. M. Underwood.) KINDT, LUDWIG. Der Kultur des Kakaobaumes und seine Schddlinge. Hamburg, 1904. KNAPP, W. S. An inaugural dissertation on the properties of Apocynum canna- Unum. Philadelphia, 1826. ( Given by Miss Vail.) KNY, S. Ueber Axillarknospen bei Florideen. Berlin, 1873. KOHL, L. G. Ueber die Organization und Physiologie der Cyanophyceenzdle. Jena, 1903. LINSBAUER, K., LINSBAUER, L., & PORTHEIM, L. R. V. Wiesner und seine Schule. Wien, 1903. MAGNUS, P. Die botanischen Ergebnisse der Nordseefahrt von 21 Juli Us a September, 18J2. Berlin, 1874. MAGNUS, P. Zur Morphologie der Sphacelarieen nebst Bemerkungen uber die Ablenkung des Vegetationspunktes der Hauptachse durch den nahe am Schettel angelegt werdenden Tochterspross. Berlin, 1873. MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT. Evolution and adaptation. New York, 1903. ( Given by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. ) PENNSYLVANIA, Department of Forestry. Statement of work during IOOI and 1902. Harrisburg, 1902. ( Byexchange.) 45 PORTER, THOMAS CONRAD. Flora of Pennsylvania. Edited, with the addition of analytical keys, by John Kunkel Small. Boston, 1903. ( Given by Dr. J. K. Small.) POST, TOM VON & KUNTZE, OTTO. Lexicon generum phanerogamarum inde ab anno MDCCXXX VII cum nomenclatura legitima internationali et systemate inter recentia medio. Stuttgart, 1904. ( Given by the Torrey Botanical Club.) RABENHORST, S. Beitrage zur naheren Kenntniss und Verbreitung der Algen. Heft 1. Leipzig, 1863. RACIBORSKI, M. Parasitische Algen und Pilze Javas, 1- 3. Batavia, 1900. ROSTAFINSKI, J. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Tange. Heft I. Leipzig, 1876. SCHIMPER, A. F . W. Plant- geography upon a physiological basis. Translated by William R. Fisher. Part 1- 2. Oxford, 1903. SCHLITZBERGER, S. Zur Nutzung und Warming! Ein Buch fur j'edermam, enthaliend unsere hdufigeren essaren und die dahselben dhnlichen gijtigen Pilze. Cas-sel, no date. ( Given by Dr. L. M. Underwood.) SCHUMANN, KARL. Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen. Nachtrage 1898- 1902. SONDER, W. Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Hamburg, 1871. STRASBURGER, E., NOLL, F., SCHENCK, H., & KARSTEN, G. Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Hochschulen. Jena, 1904. TOBACCO. Institut R. Experimental pour les cultures des tabacs : Monographie par le directeur Dr. Leonard Angeloni. Naples, 1900. {^> y exchange.) TOBACCO. R. Instituto Spermentale di Scafati. Bollettino tecnico. Vol. 2. Torre Annunziata, 1903. ( By exchange.) TOBACCO. R. Instituto Spermentale per le colivazione dei tabacchi e la vinta del VII° Congresso Internazionale d' Agricoltura. Torre Annunziata, 1903. ( Byexchange. ) TOBACCO. Representazione grafica della produzione del Tobacco in Italia. Napoli, 1900. ( By exchange.) TURRE, GEORGIO A. Catalogus plantarum horti Patavini. Patavii, 1660. West Virginia. Agricultural Experiment Station. Third Annual Report. Charleston, 1891. WILLE, N. Beitrage zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der physiologischen Gewebesys-teme bei einigen Florideen. Halle, 1887. 152 dissertations on botanical and kindred subjects. ( Given by the Trustees of Columbia University.) BOOKS DEPOSITED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DURING 1903. BEHRENS, J. Nutzpflanzen. Leipzig, 1900. CANNON, W. A. Studies in plant hybrids. New York, 1903. HARRIS, G. H. Indian bread root of the Senecas. Waterloo, 1890. HAZEN, TRACY ELLIOT. Ulothricaceae and Chaetophoriaceae of the United States. New York, 1902. Doctors' Dissertation at Columbia University, Faculty of Pure Science. H I N E S , C. F. Leaf prints or glimpses at photography. Philadelphia, 1868. Paleontographica. Supplement 3, I - I I . Cassel, 1875- 1882. 2 vols. MARTIUS, K. F. P. VON. Flora Brasiliensis. Vol. 3, pars 5. Monachii, 1897- 1902. MlGULA, W. Pflanzenbiologie. Leipzig, 1900. REICHE, CARLOS. Flora de Chile. Vol. 3. 1902. 46 REINECKE, F. & MIGULA, W. Das Pfianzenreich. Leipzig, 1900. RENAULT, B. Contributions de paleontologie vegetate. Paris, 1875. SAPORTA, GASTON DE. Observations sur la nature des vegilaux rfanis dans le groupe des Noeggerathia. Paris, 1878. SAPORTA, GASTON DE. Sur la prisence supposee des proteacees d'Australie dans la fore de V Europe ancienne. Paris, no date. SMITH, JOHN D ' NNELL. Enumeratio platitarum Guatemalensium. Pars VI. Oquawka, 1903. ( Given by Dr. N. L. Britton.) SQUIN ABOL, S. Contribuzione alia flora fossile dei terreni tertziarii della Liguria. Geneva, 1891 STEVENS, WILLIAM C. Introduction to botany. Boston, 1902. WETHAM, HENRY. Observations on fossil vegetables. Edinburgh, 1831. MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM, JANUARY, 1904. 4 museum specimens of fruits for collection of North American Dendrology. ( Given by Mr. L. R. Abrams.) 3 specimens of Petasites palmata from Massachusetts. ( Given by Prof. F. E. Lloyd.) 100 specimens, " Fungi Columbiani," Century 19. ( Distributed by Mr. E. Bartholomew.) 20 specimens of mosses from Wyoming and Utah. ( Collected by Messrs. R. N. Goodding and A. Nelson.) 1 museum specimen of Japanese persimmons. ( Given by Mr. T. C. Greene.) 1 museum specimen oi Hicoria from Georgia. ( Given by Mr. R. M. Harper.) 3 herbarium specimens from New Jersey and Long Island. ( By exchange with Dr. A. J. Grout and Mr. J. B. Brainerd.) 4 herbarium specimens from the eastern United States. ( Given by Mr. S. H. Burnham.) 27 mosses from Minnesota. ( By exchange with Mr. J. M. Holzinger.) 1 museum specimen of Ipomoea arborescens from Mexico. ( Given by Dr. D. T. MacDougal.) 8 specimens oi Salix from Ontario. ( Given by Mr. W. Herriot.) 62 herbarium specimens from Utah, Idaho and Montana. ( Byexchange with Oberlin College.) 28 specimens of woody fungi from Pennsylvania. ( By exchange with Prof. D. R. Sumstine.) 69 herbarium specimens from central New York. ( By exchange with Mr. H. D. House.) 12 photographs of western American trees. ( Given by Professor E. 0 . Wooton.) l museum specimen, a black thorn cane. ( Given by Mr. Wm. Gaynor.) I herbarium specimen of Covillea from California. ( Given by Mr. C. De Kalb,) 13 museum specimens of medicinal plants of the Cheyenne Indians. ( Given by Mr. Geo. B. Grinnell.) 205 herbarium specimens from western North America. ( Collected by Mr. H. M. Hall.) I photograph of the tideland spruce from Oregon. ( Given by Mr. E. P. Sheldon.) 3,003 specimens of Algae mainly from North America, Mauritius and Portugal. ( Collected by Col. Nicolas Pike.) I specimen of Corsinga marchantioides from Italy. ( Given by Miss C. C. Haynes.) 47 5,500 specimens of pteridophytes, being the herbarium of Professor L. M. Underwood. 25 plant photographs and plates. ( Given by Miss A. M. Vail). 52 specimens of violets. ( Given by Mr. Witmer Stone.) 17 herbarium specimens from the Bahamas. ( Given by Mrs. J. I. Northrop.) 16 specimens of hepatics from Maine and Washington. ( Given by Miss H. B. Bailey.) 2 museum specimens oi Hepaticae from the Adirondacks. ( Given by Miss C. C. Haynes.) 7 herbarium specimens from Florida. ( Given by Mr. S. Rapp.) 1 specimen of Chenopodium carinatum from Texas. ( Given by Mr. K. K. MacKenzie. ) 225 specimens of European fungi. ( Distributed by Messrs. J. C. Schmidt and G. Kunze.) 20 specimens of marine algae from Nova Scotia. ( Given by Miss Evelyn Benedict. ) 2 photographs of European pines. ( Given by Mr. G. R. Shaw.) 3 specimens of Karwinskia Humboldtiana. ( Collected by Dr. D. T. MacDougal.) I specimen oi Rhus littoralis. ( By exchange with the U. S. National Museum.) 1 specimen of Frullania Eboracensis from New York. ( Given by Mr. H. D. House.) 5 herbarium specimens from New Mexico. ( By exchange with Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.) 31 herbarium specimens from Colorado. ( By exchange with the Colorado College of Agriculture.) 5 herbarium specimens from Colorado. ( Byexchange with Mr. Geo. Osterhout.) 425 herbarium specimens from Illinois. ( By exchange with Mr. F. E. McDonald.) 318 herbarium specimens from western North America. ( Collected by Mr. C. F. Baker.) 1,006 miscellaneous specimens, being the herbarium of the late Dr. Theodore G. White. ( Given for the Columbia Herbarium.) 3,600 herbarium specimens from Bolivia and Peru. ( Collected by Mr. R. S. Williams.) 5 specimens of pines from America and Europe. ( Given by Mr. G. R. Shaw.) 200 herbarium specimens from Jamaica. ( Collected by Mr. Geo. E. Nichols.) 2 museum specimens, " nuts " juice, and fruit of Genipa. ( Given by Messrs. D. T. Savimore & Co.) 55 herbarium specimens from the islands adjacent to California. ( Given by Miss Alice Eastwood.) PLANTS AND SEEDS, JANUARY, 1904. 2 plants for the conservatories. ( By exchange with the New York Zoological Society.) 99 bulbs. ( Purchased from Messrs. Suzuki & lida, Japan.) 201 plants, mostly for the conservatories. ( Purchased from Messrs. Suzuki & lida, Japan.) 10 succulents. ( By exchange with Dr. J. N. Rose.) 7 succulent cuttings. 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