1902] Bissell, — Phaseolus perennis in New England 1 3 



on perfect fronds long lanceolate, acuminate, the lower pinnae shorter 

 often deltoid with acute apices, the upper series narrowing abruptly 

 or gradually to an acute or acuminate apex ; superior pinnules gen- 

 erally the longest but the order sometimes reversed ; lobes more or 

 less deeply toothed and partially spinulose, texture sub-coriaceous, 

 surfaces smooth ; venation, and fibro-vascular bundles as in other 

 members of this group. Sori medial, costal or sub-marginal. 



Abnormal fronds defy description, and as it is impossible to get a 

 clear conception of the unique character of this fern from single 

 fronds, a series of the most characteristic will be photographed for 

 distribution. 



Medford, Massachusetts. 



Rediscovery of Phaseolus perennis in New England. — In 

 preparing his check-list of the Leguminosae of New England, Hon. 

 J. R. Churchill took much pains to investigate the various reports as 

 to the occurrence of Phaseolus perennis, Walt., in New England. 



He has published the result of his work with some detail in Rhodora, 

 11:92 — April, 1900. He states that the only known specimens from 

 New England were collected nearly fifty years ago at or near New 

 Haven, Connecticut, and as he could find no specimens collected in 

 more recent years, nor any botanist who had seen it, he would infer 

 that it had disappeared from our flora. It is therefore a pleasure to 

 place this Phaseolus in good standing again among our New Eng- 

 land plants, and record for it a present and well established station. 



I secured specimens of it at Norwalk, Connecticut, the past 

 summer, in flower on August 23rd, and in good fruit September 16th. 

 This station is about thirty five miles from New Haven, so it can 

 hardly be the one from which the specimens referred to by Judge 

 Churchill were taken. The Norwalk station is in a patch of rocky 

 woodland, and only a few rods from the border of a salt marsh. The 

 growth was strong and healthy, the vines trailing over the ground 

 and forming a thick mat covering about a square rod, to the exclusion 

 of most other plants. — C. H. Bissell, Southington, Connecticut. 



Some Plants recently found in and around North Easton, 

 Massachusetts. — Solarium carolinense, L. (Horsenettle. ) This west- 

 ern species of Solanum was found in a dry location in the town of 



