1901] Graves, — Plants of Southeastern Connecticut 65 
rium. As seen by me the expanded flowers are distinctly larger 
and paler than those of Z. Virginianum L. 
Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum angustifolium (Ait.) A. Gray — A small 
patch of this northern form was found in 1899 near the edge of 
Great Cedar Swamp, Voluntown. In New England ordinarily con- 
fined to the higher mountain summits. 
Lonicera coerulea L.— Abundant in Voluntown, especially in the 
wet sphagnous meadows bordering the cedar swamps. It here fruits 
very freely, the delicious berries which much resemble blueberries in 
flavor being fully ripe and loading the bushes on June 17, 1899. 
Rhamnus cathartica L.— Lebanon, a few plants by roadsides. 
lex laevigata Gray — Cedar swamps in Ledyard, North Stoning- 
ton and Voluntown. 
Barbarea praecox R.Br.—Cultivated ground at Scotch Cap, Water- 
ford, 1899 and 1900. Apparently its first record in New England. 
Silene dichotoma Ehrh.—Waste ground, New London, 1898. 
Cerastium semidecandrum L.— Abundant in old fields near Niantic 
River, East Lyme. Formerly unknown north of New Jersey. 
Spiraca ulmifolia Scop.— Sparingly escaped to a roadside thicket 
near Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London. 
Aster Schrebert Nees — Wooded banks, Montville and Norwich. 
Chrysanthemum Balsamita L.— Escaped to the roadside near 
farm houses at two places in East Lyme and one in Groton. One 
of these stations was discovered about ten years ago, and the plant 
was then well established. A resident of one of these houses when 
asked the name of this plant called it ** beaver's tongue." 
New Lonpon, Conn. 
THE SIXTH ANNUAL WINTER MEETING OF THE VERMONT BoraANr- 
CAL CLUB was held at the University of Vermont on the 2sth and 
26th of January. Fourteen papers were presented. Among the 
more important of which was that of President Brainerd, entitled : 
The present Status of Vermont Botany. It was an able discussion 
ofthe flora as presented in the new catalogue of Vermont plants, 
In outlining the work of the Club in the future, he maintained that 
plants in the field in their ecological and physiological relations 
should receive more attention. Much interest was manifested in the 
account of the finding of a plumose variety of Asplenium ebeneum 
Ait. by Mrs. Frances B. Horton of Brattleboro. Dr. F. A. Burt gave 
a detailed description of Z+emel/a mycetophila Pk. and stated his rea- 
sons for transferring it to Lxobasidium mycetophilum (Pk.) Burt. 
