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termined, and should be revised as follows: M. aculeata is M. agrestis, 
Ten., M. lappacea is M. hispida, Gaertn. var. apiculata, Urban, 
Trigonc//a Cassia, of the same flora, is 7. /Voeana, Boiss. There are 
other Medics which have crept into local lists, but they are mere waifs 
or ballast plants, and scarcely deserve mention. Plants equally ephem- 
eral, sometimes collected from dumps, and reported in local floras, 
are Lathyrus sativus, L., Phaseolus vulgaris, L., Pisum sativum, Li, 
Lotus corniculatus, L., Scorpiurus subvillosus, L., and others. They 
are transient relics of cultivation, rarely persistent, and are better 
omitted. 
Regarding Oxytropis campestris, DC., see RHODORA 1: 85. 
Phaseolus perennis, Walt., is credited generally to New England in 
Gray’s Manual and in the Illustrated Flora. Itis mentioned as “ not 
common " in Jackson's Flora of Worcester County (Mass.). After 
a thorough ransacking of our principal herbaria, and correspondence 
with Mr. Jackson and others, it seems clear that the report of its occur- 
rence in Worcester County is without foundation ; and that the record 
for New England rests at present solely on three specimens, all col- 
lected many years ago at New Haven, Conn. One of these sheets, in 
the Gray Hebarium, is without date, but it bears the stamp of the 
* ‘Torrey & Gray Flora,” and the label reads simply: ** Phaseolus peren- 
nis, New Haven. Dana." In the Eaton Herbarium at New Haven 
is a specimen collected by A. B. Eaton at New Haven in 1859. The 
third sheet is in the Herbarium of Columbia College ; and for the 
account of the ancient and fragmentary specimen thereon I am in- 
debted to Mr. Roland M. Harper, student of botany in the University. 
The label reads as follows: ** P. perennis. New Haven, Ct. recd. by 
Dr. Robbins from Shephard or Shorter. This is my only specimen. I 
should be glad to have you tell me if it is perennis & send it back 
when convenient." This sheet, too, bears the stamp, “ Torrey Herba- 
rium," but the label is neither signed nor dated. Dr. Britton, affirming 
the authenticity of the specimen, ventures the opinion that the label is 
in the handwriting of Oakes. Now will our New Haven botanists 
tell us where the station was and whether it is now extinct ? 
Trifolium stoloniferum, Muhl., is reported in Perkins’ Catalogue 
of Vermont Plants, from Bellows Falls. President Brainerd writes that 
it is doubtless an error, or possibly a waif. No specimen is extant, and 
no recent collector has been able to find it there. 
Vol, 2, No. 15, including pages 53 to 74 and plate 15, was issued March 6, 1900, 
