1900] Eaton, — A few additions to New Hampshire flora 167 
“Your No. 674, Aster from 1,000 feet on Meriden Mountain, 
proves to be the extremely rare and little known A. concinnus, Willd. 
I have compared it with authentic specimens, which have themselves 
been verified by comparison in the Willdenow herbarium, and feel no 
hesitation in so placing it. The plant is one of the rarest and least 
known of American species and, though Dr. Gray doubtfully referred 
a few more southern specimens to it, your plant much better matches 
the authentic specimens which we have than does anything else I 
have seen. Other New England collectors have sent me plants under ` 
the name A. concinnus, but theirs have thus far proved to be forms of 
A. laevis. Your plant, as you will see, has thinner, greener leaves than 
that species, and the bracts are thin and linear-attenuate, not unlike 
those of A. longifolius or A. paniculatus. I hope you will watch the 
. plant this year and secure us some good material. I am sorry that I 
did not detect the plant in time for your Flora of Meriden Mountain." 
In the Synoptical Flora of North America, Dr. Gray says of Aster 
concinnus : ** North America, received by Willdenow from Muhlenburg. 
An indigenous specimen from Pennsylvania, Minn, in herb. Cosson. 
This and perhaps that of North Carolina, Schweinitz in herb. Ell. (now 
lost), and Arkansas, Harvey, seem to be the only indigenous ones 
seen." We now have the pleasure of announcing in the pages of 
Ruopora an additional station for this extremely rare species. 
SOUTHINGTON, CONN. 
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A FEW ADDITIONS TO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE FLORA. 
ALVAH A. EATON. 
Tune lists of New England plants which appear in RHODORA are 
very helpful to the general collector, showing him where knowledge is 
deficient and observation demanded. They should also help com- 
pilers of botanies so that no future work need leave a large percentage 
of a state's flora unrecorded. 
* Massachusetts and South” is the limit of many plants found over 
the line in New Hampshire, and just about ten per cent of the plants 
found in this neighborhood are not accredited to the state in a recent 
pretentious work. 
Under these circumstances it may not be amiss to amend the lists 
