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cussed the matter once with Olney, himself, and he was more than 
half inclined to agree with me. 
Drosera longifolia, as we called it then, grew in Olneyville swamp 
and in the swamps between that village and the head of the cove. 
I suppose by this time the old swamp is all filled up. It was a great 
locality. Carex exilis, C. teretiuscula, Epilobium molle (so we termed 
it then), and many other things belonged there. I believe I 
gathered the last specimens of Linnaea at Mr. Olney’s: locality. 
When last I visited the spot the plant had been all ‘improved’ away. 
It grew in Connecticut ten miles west of the Rhode Island line in 
just one spot. It may, however, easily occur in Fiskeville or 
Burrillville."' 
[The one and only Linnaea locality was quite near the then 
sadly neglected grave of Esek. Hopkins, first commander of the 
American Navy. — W. W. B.] 
« With regard to the orchids, Bigelow's Habenaria fimbriata is now 
H. psycodes and his psycodes the modern /acera, while he makes what 
is now fimbriata, grandiflora. So also his Corallorhiza odontorhiza 
is, I am satisfied, C. multiflora, Nutt., which is twenty times more 
common in New England. In fact, I never saw C. odontorhiza in 
Rhode Island but once, in Warwick. In after years the same local- 
ity was entirely barren. Bigelow's Myriophyllum procumbens is the 
half terrestrial form of M. ambiguum, Nutt., and to be found (in 
my day) in both forms at Little Benedict Pond. Zygodium I never 
saw growing except at Quinsnickett, Smithfield, where it was intro- 
duced. ‘There is another locality in Burrillville." 
[My own locality, in South Scituate, was, when I last visited it, 
about 1880, a fine one. The copse near the water was full of it. — 
W. W. B.] 
* I wonder whether the old salt marsh where Olney first found 
Scirpus Olneyi, still remains. Even in my time they had put a road 
through leaving the original patch upon one side. It is far from 
uncommon in California." 
BROWN UNIVERSITY. 
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA AS A TUMBLE-WEED.— Referring to Dr. Beal’s 
list of **Tumble-weeds" I may say that a number of years ago I 
found Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R. Br. growing as a tumble-weed on 
