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VEGETABLE TECHNOLOGY.

Silesia , fungi of, Marquart, 126.

-poisonous, Schummel,

174.

- its medicinal plants, Goep-

pert, 72.

- its poisonous plants, Qoep-

pert, 72; Spieler, 184.

-sugar-beet in, Achard, 3.

Silk (vegetable), Anon. 226.

Silkweeds, various species of As-clepias, Greene, 73, 74.

Silpbion of the ancients, Herincq,

88 .

Silpliium, Beniau, 50; Lescher,116.

- of tbe ancients, Oersted,

142.

Silphium cyrena'icum, Anon. 235;Herincq, 88.

-laciniatum, Anon. 237.

Simaba Cedron, Hooker, 94; See-mann, 175.

Simarubeae of India , Bennett, 17.

Sinai, manna of, Berthelot, 19.

Singapore , destruction of GuttaPercha trees at, Anon. 225.

-nutmeg culture at, Seemann,

176.

Siphonia, Spruce, 185.

Siruba, or oil of laurel, Hancock,82.

Sium latifolium, Porter, 153.

Slesvig , forestry in, Ifrogh, 253.

-rape culture in, Iversen, 100,

252.

Smilax, Bentley, 15.

Smilax, China, Meyer, 131.

Smyrna, produce of, Scherzer, 171,172.

- Scammony from, Maltass,

124.

Snuff. See Tobacco.

Soap-bark, Bleekrode, 22.

Soap berry, Hamilton, 79.

Soaps, plants used in, Claussen,38.

-vegetable, Bernardin, 19.

Society of Arts, Journal of, 217.

Soda-containing soils and theirtrees, Homan, 93.

Soja hispida, Blaskovics, 21 ;Haberlandt , 77 ; Bock, 254 ;Wein, 206.

Solanaceae , in medicine, Poucket,154.

-uses of, Comendator y Tellez,

39.

Solanum, Banal, 56.

Solanum tuberosum, its medicinalproperties, Byer, 57.

Solidago odora, Jackson, 101.

Somauli coast, Frankincense treeof, Kempthorne, 105.

Sonsonate, Myrospermum of,Pereira, 148.

Sophistication of Pareira root,Moss, 136.

Sophistications (fraudulent), andmeans of detection, Aceum, 3.

Sophora japoniea, Martins, 128.

Sorghum as forage and sugar-plant, Garnerone, 68.

Sorghum culture, Cook, 246;Hedges, 86; Madinier La-coste, 123; Olcott, 142; Sicard,178.

- - at Belvoir, Ingram,

100 .

-in the United States ,

Anon. 238.

-sugar, Be Buc, 115; Stewart,

187.

Sorghum halepense as forage,Marc, 125.

Sorgo. See Sorghum.

Soudan, Guru-nut of, Baniell, 47.

-miraculous fruit of, Baniell,

47.

-yellow dye tree of, Baniell,

47.

South American Colocynth, Anon.

222 .

South Australia , orchards of,Ward, 203.

South-sea Islands, cloth tree of,Beechey, 14.