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254 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
HYDROCOLEUM HOLDENI nom. nov. — In RHODORA I: 97. 1899, 
Mr. Holden describes a species of Hydrocoleum from Bridgeport, 
Connecticut, under the name of AHydrocoleum majus. In view of the 
fact that this name is preoccupied by Aydrocoleum majus Martens, 
Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 183. 1870, the Bridgeport plant should re- 
ceive another name and it is suggested that it be known hereafter as 
flydrocoleum holdeni. | Specimens of it have been distributed in 
Phycotheca Boreali-Americana as no. 602. — JOSEPHINE E. TILDEN, 
University of Minnesota. 
A LUXURIANT GROWTH OF JUNIPER. — Juniperus communis, var. 
Canadensis, Loudon., in Glastonbury, Connecticut, is a noticeable and 
conspicuous shrub on many of the dry hills and pastures of the town. 
In height these junipers have no uniform growth, but the outline is 
sure to be circular, at least where the patches are of good size. The 
central portion is often four to ten feet high, ascending, with trunks 
having few or no living branches near the base, finally topping out 
into a spreading, secund, evergreen growth. 
The middle and outside portions of more recent growth, show 
less dead wood than the inner, with trunks and main branches more 
or less leaty to the base, the angle of ascent generally uniform all 
around. | 
Among the many and varied patches in this vicinity there is one of 
striking and remarkable appearance, exceptional even among others 
of large size. This I discovered on April 28, r9or, and a careful 
measurement around the outside branches showed a total circumfer- 
ence of ninety-eight feet. The central portion was about four feet 
in height and the outside about two feet. 'The entire growth of 
this mass of evergreen was almost free from dead wood, and only 
when the outside branches were laid back could the brown bare 
trunks of the inner portion be seen. The place was again visited on 
August 1, 1901, and the circumference had increased two feet, making 
it an even hundred. 
Stepping into the growth I found the trunks and branches so massed 
and twisted as to sustain my weight. $o far as I examined I could 
find no portion of the patch which had not made a growth of at least 
three to four inches during the season to date.— A. W. DmiGGs, 
East Hartford, Connecticut. 
