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region ; apparently lacking south of New Milford. Chiogenes hispidula 
and AaZwia glauca grow at Spectacle Ponds, Kent; Andromeda poli- 
Jolia at Spectacle Ponds and Hatch Pond; Cassandra calyculata as 
far south as Huntington; and in Berzelius list, at Riverhead, L. I. 
This is more common and more southerly than the two preceding. 
Nemopanthus fastcularis is common around New Milford and Kent 
in swamps. 
Many examples of herbaceous plants could be given corroborating 
the effect of altitude and latitude, which, however, it will be better to 
defer till another time. 
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 
IS ARTEMISIA STELLERIANA A NATIVE OF 
NEW ENGLAND? 
M. L. FERNALD. 
One of the most conspicuous plants of sand-dunes and the drier 
portions of many sea-beaches of New England is Artemisia Stedleriana, 
a species first described from Kamtschatka. Yet, abundant as is the 
plant about many of our long-visited resorts, Mt. Desert, Old Orchard, 
Nahant, Nantasket, Truro, Martha’s Vineyard, Narraganset Pier, New- 
port, and New London, as well as Long Reach and Sandy Hook, it was 
apparently unrecorded in our botanical literature until within the last 
quarter-century. Probably the first station noted in eastern America 
was at Nahant, Massachusetts, in 1877. A specimen collected there, or 
on the adjacent Lynn Beach, by Dr. W. G. Farlow, in 1879, is labelled 
* growing wild in large tufts," and of this station Mr. John Robinson 
wrote in 1880, “evidently increasing quite rapidly." A specimen col- 
lected by Miss G. H. Learned at New London, Connecticut, in 1892, 
is marked “ well established." These notes of Dr. Farlow, Mr. Rob- 
inson, and Miss Learned, then, as well as Dr. Britton's records of the 
plant in his New Jersey catalogue, indicate their belief that the plant is 
introduced. 
On the other hand, there is a rather general idea that the plant is 
indigenous on our coast. In the Synoptical Flora and in the last edi- 
tion of Gray's Manual this is suggested, though with some doubt; in 
various local floras the plant is treated in the same non-committal way ; 
and in the Illustrated Flora, though its introduction into eastern America 
