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Herbarium, and together with Mr. Faxon’s plant and specimens col- 
lected by Mr. Fernald in New Hampshire in 1899 formed the origi- 
nal material of S. atratus. 
The past summer I spent several days searching for further spec- 
imens in the mountains of Vermont. In a drive of over seventy 
miles I found single plants of two or three culms each in six stations 
miles apart. At last, however, at a lower altitude of about 500 feet 
it was seen in abundance in a moist meadow of coarse alluvium 
brought down by a mountain brook. Afterward in August I found 
it plentifully in the upland meadows of Wallingford in Rutland 
County. Itis nota plant of bogs or wet places, like .S. cyperinus, 
S. atrocinctus, and S. rubrotinctus ; but affects a moist, heavy soil. 
The fruit begins to ripen and to drop by the middle of July, while 
the tips of the spikelets are still in flower. It is surely a welcome 
addition to the mountain flora of New York and New England, in 
spite of the misfortunes that have attended its christening. 
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF RHODE ISLAND. 
WM. WHITMAN BAILEY. 
Mr. Joseph W. Congdon, for many years the leading systematic 
botanist in Rhode Island, and now residing at Mariposa, California, 
sends me interesting notes elicited by my recent article in RHODORA. 
The localities of which I did not know the present names have been 
explained by him and others ; thus “ Tifft's" or Teft’s Woods " were 
on Federal Hill, near the present Atwell’s Avenue; “ Triptown ” is 
now our suburb, Manton; while * Tar-kiln " is a station on the 
Pascoag Railroad. Mr. Congdon writes : — 
“Years ago Utricularia purpurea belonged to Little Benedict 
Pond, while around the borders grew Coreopsis rosea, Fuirena, Hemt- 
carpha, etc. I presume your Pawtucket locality is either Spectacle 
Pond, back of the old Lindsay Tavern, or another pond on the 
southerly side of the turn-pike, about half a mile distant. The 
Eupatorium hyssopifolium (also aromaticum) indicate Spectacle Pond, 
the sole Rhode Island habitat for ZsZecarya. Carex Olneyi, I was 
long ago satisfied, is nothing but a bybrid of C. utriculata with 
probably C. monile. Its ovaries were uniformly abortive. I dis- 
