1900] Jewell,—A pink-flowered form of Rubus triflorus 87 
E. ANcUsTIFOLIA, DC. Low, 2 to 5 dm. high: rays short, 2 to 2.5 
cm. long, spreading, 2-3-toothed, purplish to white. — Prodr. v. 554; 
and Am. authors in part. Brauneria pallida, Britton, l.c., at least as 
to synonym. B. tennesseensis, Beadle, Bot. Gaz. xxv. 3 59. — Tennessee 
to the Saskatchewan, Wyoming, and Texas. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
A PINK-FLOWERED FORM OF RUBUS TRIFLORUS. — In 1898, I found, 
growing near Farmington village, a number of specimens of Ruus 
triflorus with flowers which were almost a bright pink. At least a 
dozen of these plants were scattered along a roadside, and occupied a 
space two rods in length. The same pink form had been noticed in 
this place a year before, and with its colored petals strongly contrasted 
with the typical white-flowered plant, with which it grew. — H. W. 
JEwELL, Farmington, Me. 
ERAGROSTIS FRANKI IN COoNNECTICUT.— Mr. Hoffmann in 
Ruopora I, 230, records the occurrence of Eragrostis Frankit, 
Steud., in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, stating that it had not 
been previously reported north of New Jersey. It may be worth while 
to record an intermediate station at East Windsor, Connecticut, where 
I collected specimens in 1897. Some of these were deposited in the 
Herbarium of the New England Botanical Club, March, 1898. — C. 
H. Bisset, Southington, Connecticut. 
MINNESOTA PLANT LIFE,! by Prof. Conway MacMillan of the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota, may be mentioned as a recent and attractively 
illustrated volume upon the habital and biological features of a vege- 
tation not very unlike that of middle altitudes in the northern half of 
New England. In a commendable effort toward simple diction, not 
hitherto conspicuous in works from the same pen, technical words are 
scrupulously avoided. However, when in place of pretty generally 
known Latinized terms we find such expressions as “four-leaved 
water-fern," “fertile lobe of the adder's tongue fern leaf," “ seed- 
rudiment-producing tree," the simplification seems a trifle labored. 
! Report of the [Minnesota] Survey, Botanical Series iii. Large 8vo., xxv 
and 568 pages. St. Paul, 1899. 
