226 Rhodora [ NOVEMBER 
SOLIDAGO TENUIFOLIA A WEED IN RHODE ISLAND. — Several per- 
sons call my attention to the prevalence in Rhode Island of .So/iZago 
tenutfolia as a weed. Itis locally known as Jemimy weed, and is said 
to have first attracted attention about the time that Jemimy Wilkinson 
left Central Rhode Island. It was considered “a curse put upon the 
country for a repudiation of her doctrine." 
A correspondent, Mr. W. H. Bennett of Apponaug, from whom I 
derive this information, says: * No animal will attempt to eat it, and 
i. spreads with great rapidity. Nothing but persistent pulling will 
ever keep it down. It is even now increasing all over pasture and 
waste lands, and bids fair to crowd out all else." 
Mr. J. F. Collins and I, in 1894, noted its prevalence on Block 
Island. — W. W. Bailey, Brown University. 
WE have received a little four-page circular entitled Notes on 
the Flora of Hartford, Litchfield and Tolland Counties [Connecti- 
cut] by A. W. Driggs of East Hartford. The circular is dated 
September 1, 1900, but, unfortunately, no place of publication is 
mentioned. In it are recorded notes on the local distribution of fifty 
spermophytes and pteridophytes, a few of them species not included 
in Bishop's Catalogue of Connecticut Plants. The circular can 
presumably be obtained from its author. R 
Mr. H. K. MORRELL publishes in the Gardiner (Maine) Reporter 
Journal for June 18, 1900, a vigorous appeal for the extermination of 
the King Devil Weed, Hieracium praealtum, “the worst pest ever 
introduced in Maine"; and suggests that every landowner in the 
region infested by this weed ought to keep it from his own grounds, 
and that the State should take active measures toward the eradication 
of the plant where it now has a foothold. ‘Within four years it has 
spread from the old Bartlett and Dennis field in West Gardiner, till 
now Randolph, Chelsea, Farmingdale, and West Gardiner are pretty 
badly infected with it, and it is spreading into Richmond, Gardiner, 
and Litchfield." 
Vol. 2, No, 22, including pages 195 to 212 and plate No. 20, was issued 
October Q, 1900. 
