Journal of the New York Botanical Garden

              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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.]
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.)
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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. ( By exchange with Dr. J. N. Rose.)
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18 plants for the conservatories from Langtry, Texas. ( Collected by Dr. D. T.
MacDougal.)
i packet of seed of Musa textilis. ( By exchange with the Bureau of Agriculture
Manila.)
I packet of seed from Georgia. ( Given by Mr. R. M. Harper.)
i packet seed from Langtry, Texas. ( Collected by Dr. D. T. MacDougal.)
Members of tbe Corporation.
PROF. N. L. BRITTON,
HON. ADDISON BROWN,
WM. L. BROWN,
ANDREW CARNEGIE,
PROF. CHAS. F. CHANDLER,
WM. G. CHOATE,
HON. EDWARD COOPER,
CHAS. F. COX,
JOHN J. CROOKE,
W. BAYARD CUTTING,
ROBERT W. DE FOREST,
CLEVELAND H. DODGE,
SAMUEL W. FAIRCHILD,
GEN. LOUIS FITZGERALD,
RICHARD W. GILDER,
HON. THOMAS F. GILROY,
PARKE GODWIN,
HON. HUGH J. GRANT,
HENRY P. HOYT,
ADRIAN ISELIN, JR.,
MORRIS K. JESUP,
JOHN I. KANE,
EUGENE KELLY, JR.,
PROF. JAMES F. KEMP,
JOHN S. KENNEDY,
PROF. FREDERICK S. LEE,
HON. SETH LOW,
DAVID LYDIG,
EDGAR L. MARSTON,
D. O. MILLS,
J. PIERPONT MORGAN,
THEO. W. MYERS,
GEO. M. OLCOTT,
PROF. HENRY F. OSBORN,
LOWELL M. PALMER,
GEORGE W. PERKINS,
JAMES R. PITCHER,
RT. REV, HENRY C. POTTER
PERCY R. PYNE,
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER,
WM. ROCKEFELLER,
HON. HENRY A. ROGERS,
PROF. H. H. RUSBY,
JAMES A. SCRYMSER,
HENRY A. SIEBRECHT,
SAMUEL SLOAN,
WM. D. SLOANE,
NELSON SMITH,
DR. W. GILMAN THOMPSON,
LOUIS C. TIFFANY,
SAMUEL THORNE,
PROF. L. M. UNDERWOOD.
GEO. W. VANDERBILT,
WILLIAM H. S. WOOD.
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