156 Rhodora [Jury 
and but just outside the Massachusetts boundary. In September, 1899, 
this fern was found in considerable quantity in a small piece of low 
woods in Contoocook, N. H. This station takes the fern well into the 
State, and is an intermediate station in the large gap that at present 
exists between the most northern of the New Hampshire stations and 
the southernmost Maine station. — F. G. FLoyp, Boston, Mass. 
PLANTAGO ELONGATA IN New ENGLAND. — The little plantain com- 
monly known as Plantago pusilla, Nutt., but more properly called /. 
elongata, Pursh, extends across the continent from east to west, but 
from north to south its range is limited. According to the Synoptical 
Flora, it is found along the Atlantic coast from southern New York to 
Virginia. Britton and Brown’s Illustrated Flora also gives southern 
New York as the northeastern limit of its growth. I have not seen 
any report of its occurrence in New England. In the Catalogue of 
Flowering Plants growing without cultivation within thirty miles of 
Yale College, published in 1878 by the Berzelius Society, it is given as 
found * On Long Island." It was very probably collected there by 
Mr. E. S. Miller, who contributed much material for this catalogue. 
A little nearer to us, yet still in the State of New York, is the station 
discovered by Dr. C. B. Graves, who, in 1892, collected the species on 
Fisher's Island. 
It was my good fortune, on May 10, 1900, to find this little plant 
at Black Hall, near the mouth of the Connecticut River, in the town 
of Lyme, Connecticut. It was growing on a sandy bank by the road- 
side, about half a mile from the seashore. With it was growing Draba 
verna, L., and also another plant that, according to my experience, is 
not common in this section, namely, the Corn Speedwell, Veronica 
arvensis, L. : 
The discovery of Plantago elongata at this station is interesting, as 
showing that the plant has by some means crossed Long Island Sound, 
and may be expected by collectors along the seashore in Connecticut, 
Rhode Island, and southern Massachusetts. 
How abundant the plant is at this place I cannot say, or how widely 
distributed in the neighborhood. The station is far from my usual 
collecting ground, and my time was limited. I secured in all probably 
fifty or sixty plants. A specimen from this station has been sent to 
the Gray Herbarium. — C. H. Bissett, Southington, Connecticut. 
