1900] Churchill, List of New England plants, — VI 91 
NOTES UPON THE ABOVE LIST. 
Amorpha fruticosa, L. (see RHODORA 1: 164), and G/edr/schia 
triacanthos, L., frequently collected along roadsides, etc., and reported 
as “ escapes," are not well established as wild, but rank rather with the 
horse-chestnut (RHODORA I: 214), and some other trees, as merely 
plants of cultivation. | 
Amphicarpa Pitcheri, T. & G. There are specimens collected in 
eastern Massachusetts, in the herbarium of Mr. W. P. Rich, which can- 
not be distinguished from this species. See RHODORA 1: 27. Ihave 
also seen, in the herbarium of Dr. E. H. Eames of Bridgeport, Conn., 
plants collected by him near that city, which are almost identical with 
the western species. Yet mature fruit from this station, which Dr. 
Eames kindly sent me, quite lacks the hairy valves so characteristic of 
A. Pitcheri. Without further material and study, it seems at least 
premature to include 4. Pitcheri in our list as a New England plant. 
Astragalus Blakei, Eggleston, Bot. Gazette, XX; 271, June, 1895 
(A. Robbinsti, Oakes, var. /esupt, Eggleston A Sheldon, Minn. Bot. 
Studies, XV, 155, June, 1894). Dr. B. L. Robinson has made a careful 
investigation of the validity of this species, with the result indicated in 
our list. I add here, also, his interesting notes as follows: ** We have 
in New England, besides 4: a/pinus and A. Canadensis, two species of | 
Astragalus, namely: 1—4. Ao)/insir, Oakes, with small, light-colored . 
flowers, and a rather short, flattish pod, which is shortly acuminate, has 
no dorsal sulcus, and exhibits only the minutest trace of a septum from 
the dorsal suture. This appears to be a local Vermont species. (Type 
specimen from Winooski River, Burlington. This station is now ex- 
tinct.) 2—4. Blake’, Eggleston, with larger, more deeply-colored 
flowers, and longer, acuminate, triangular pods, with dorsal sulcus and 
a partial septum intruded from the dorsal suture. This species has also 
borne the names 4. Roddinsii, var. occidentalis, Wats. and A. occiden- 
Zodi, Jones. It is evidently like 4. a/finus, a species of wide range, 
extending from Maine, through northern New Hampshire and Ver- 
mont, and to the far West." 
Mr. W. W. Eggleston tells me that Perkins’ report of Desmodium 
canescens in Vermont (based upon Robbins’ plant from Pownal) is 
probably erroneous. 
Two species of Medicago, not mentioned in the list, but reported in 
the Flora of Middlesex County, and based upon specimens now in the 
herbarium of the New England Botanical Club, were incorrectly de- 
