1901] Clark, — Lysimachia punctata in E. Massachusetts. 201 
slender, blue, o.5 to 1 cm.long: seeds strongly papillose. — Fl. ii. 
11; Hook. Exot. Fl. ii. t. 106, & Fl. Bor-Am. ii. 115; Gray, 
Syn. Fl. ii. 380 (in part) including var. modlis. S. campestris, 
Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 283, & in Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. 
iii. 82, fig. 3084.— QvuknBkc, without locality (Mrs. Shepard, 
Macrae): VERMONT, North Ferrisburg, June, 1881 (E. &» C. E. 
Faxon) ; dry barren soil, Burlington, July, 1894 (Z. R. Jones & 
W. W. Eggleston), June, 1896 (A. 7. Grout): New York, Dexter 
(Alphonso Wood): Ontio, limestone soil, Ottawa Co., June, 1895 
CE. L. Moseley): Micuican, without locality (Houghton) ; lona, 
1877 (E. F. Smith) : Irr1Nors, Fulton Co. (7. Wolf); sandy banks 
of the Mississippi, Oquawka, June, 1873 (H. N. Patterson) : TENN- 
ESSEE, open woods, Henderson, May, 1893 (S. M. Bain, no. 38): 
Missounmi, St. Louis, April, 1844 (G. Engelmann); Montier, May, 
1894 (B. F. Bush, no. 316): Texas (Wright, &c.). Passing to 
Var. ambigua. Stem and leaves sparingly appressed-puberulent 
or glabrate: leaves often more oblong and entire, but sometimes 
ovate and toothed. — S. ambigua, Nutt. Gen. ii. 37. S. parvula, 
authors, in part; Britton l. c. 81, fig. 3083; not Michx. — MAINE, 
gravelly bank, Dover, Sept. 1896 (JM. ZL. Fernald, no. 466); 
exsiccated clay soil, North Berwick, July, 1895 (7. C. Parlin, no. 
305): Connecticut, East Haven, 1855 (Geo. Thurber): PENN- 
SYLVANIA, woods, Schuylkill River (Herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.) : 
Ouro, dry and open forests — type (Thos. Nuttall, Herb. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phila.): Kentucky, Lexington, 1835 (C. W. Short): ILLr 
NoIS, without station, 1845 (S. B. Mead) ; near Oquawka, Aug. 1873 
H. N. Patterson): Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Z. A. Lapham); Madi- 
son (7: 7. Hale): Iowa, Ames, June 1897 (A. Combs & C. R. 
Ball): Missouni, Independence, May, 1894 (B. F. Bush, no. 825): 
Kansas, prairie, Riley Co., May, 1895 (J. B. Norton, no. 411): 
Louisiana (Hale): Texas, (E. Hall, no. 453). 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
LYSIMACHIA PUNCTATA IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.—Lysimachia 
punctata, L., which although not mentioned in the 6th edition of 
Gray's Manual, is illustrated in Britton and Brown's Flora, has been 
found growing in a wild state at Brockton Heights near the Easton 
line. It was first discovered here in the summer of 19oo. This is 
one of the rarest of the genus, the only other station known for this 
species near here being at Whitman, Massachusetts. The few plants 
found near Easton are unfortunately in danger of extermination by 
enthusiastic plant hunters of this vicinity. —ARTHUR CLARK, North 
Easton, Massachusetts. 
