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Mr. Bennett's publication, I propose to drop the name from my list 
until actual specimens exist to prove its presence here. 
Zisia aurea, var. obtusifolia, Bissell. This form was discovered by 
Mr. C. H. Bissell in Salisbury, Connecticut, on June 18, 1900, and 
published in RHopoRa, II, p.225. The type specimen is deposited in 
the Gray Hebarium where I have examined it. It should be entered 
with a cross in my list. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
A SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIVE PLANTS. 
IN Boston and its suburbs a number of persons who take a keen 
interest in wild flowers have united to form a * Society for the Pro- 
tection of Native Plants." The object of this society is to check the 
wholesale destruction to which many of our native plants are ex- 
posed, — a destruction often a matter of pure thoughtlessness in the 
excessive picking of flowers, and unnecessary pulling of roots, or an 
extensive collecting of flowers and plants for sale. 
It is the intention of the society to publish brief articles, or leaflets, 
calling the attention of thoughtful people to the matter, and to point 
out what plants especially need protection and in what way the 
desired end may be best affected. These leaflets will be distributed 
to teachers in our schools, to flower missions and village improve- 
ment societies, and in such other places as it may seem that they 
will be effective. 
This movement for the protection of native plants has the 
approval of the New England Botanical Club, which, as a body, feels 
keenly the loss or great reduction of many plants once more or less 
abundant in the neighborhood of our large cities. 
For information in regard to the Society for the Protection of 
Native Plants, or its leaflets, application may be made to 
Miss Marta E. Carrer, Curator of Herbarium, Boston Society of 
Natural History, BERKELEY STREET, Boston, Mass. 
