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port their discoveries, so that more knowledge may be obtained of the 
range of this interesting little plant. 
Boston. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 15, figs. 1-7. Fig. I, Bartonia tenella, habital sketch; 
fig. 2, same, corolla-lobes. Fig. 3, 4. zodandra, one of the original Newfoundland 
specimens; fig. 4, corolla-lobes of same. Fig. 5, B. zodandra,a specimen from the 
Blue Hill station. Fig. 6, 4. Moseri, a specimen from Covington, La. 
A LITTLE-KNOWN NEW ENGLAND GOLDENROD. 
C. B. GRAVEs. 
ON October rst, 1398, specimens of a peculiar Solidago were col- 
lected by the writer on the gravelly terrace bordering Poquonnoc River, 
Groton, Connecticut. The same form was found again last September 
both at the locality above mentioned and on an open, rocky hillside 
near the shore, some miles further east. "The plant was fairly abundant 
at both stations, growing with S. rugosa Mill, S. Canadensis L., S. 
sempervirens L., and S. juncea Ait., but having manifest points of dif- 
ference from all those species. 
Careful examination of this material led to the conclusion that it 
represented a species distinct from any described in the current 
manuals. 
Through the kindness of Mr. Fernald, who examined some of these 
specimens, I have learned that at various times during a considerable 
period of years plants seemingly identical with these have been found 
at several points in eastern Massachusetts. This form was probably 
referred to by Young in his Flora of Oak Island, Revere, Mass. (1882), 
as “ Solidago sp.? Perhaps a cross between S. sempervirens and S. 
altissima." This Oak Island station was rediscovered in recent years 
by Mr. Wm. P. Rich, of Boston, to whom I am greatly indebted for 
information upon the plant in Massachusetts. What is apparently the 
same form has been collected also in Medford, Malden, and Winthrop, 
Mass. 
Dr. Gray, to whom most of these Massachusetts specimens were 
submitted, classed them doubtfully as hybrids between .S. rugosa Mill. 
and S. sempervirens L. Later students, however, have been more 
inclined to regard this form as entitled to specific rank. Mr. Wm. P. 
Rich, who has a thorough field knowledge of the Oak Island plant, has 
