3& Rhodora [February 



Solidago Elliottii, T. & G. (Glastonbury). There is little doubt 

 that this was a wrong identification. I recorded this species in my 

 note book of 1S94, but successive yearly journeys over the same 

 ground (peat bogs along Salmon Brook) failed to yield further plants. 

 I have persisted in my search, however, and was rewarded this year 

 with S. u/iginosa, Nutt., which has not been recorded before from this 

 part of the state. 



Pyrus arbutifolia, var. melanocarpa, Hook., is found in most of our 

 swamp margins and low woods. That this is a plant not requiring 

 moisture or soil such as is usually associated with it, may be seen 

 from the following:— On the summit of Mt. Riga, Salisbury, growing 

 on thin soil without much apparent moisture, plants were found on 

 August 28, 1 90 1, thriving and fruiting in abundance. They were 

 unusually small, often not over three inches high, but bushy and stout 

 of growth. The fruit did not show that it lacked the nourishment of 

 a meadow soil or loam, being of good size and looking large on such 

 small plants. Mt. Riga is over two thousand feet above sea level, 

 has an exposed summit, portions of which are covered with grasses, 

 also PotcHtilla tridcntata and Que reus ilieifolia, the latter forming a 

 sort of ring around the flat rocks of the summit, but not tall or plen- 

 tiful enough to offer shelter to other plant life from the extremes of 

 temperature. The day I was there the soil was almost caked, owing 

 to the radiating heat from the rocks. 



Patucum longifolium, Torr. Canton, August 14, 1901, vicinity of 

 Mt. Horr. Previously reported in Rhodora iii. 102, from Rhode 

 Island and in i. 67, from Connecticut. The Canton station extends 

 its range well to the north so that the plant may be expected in almost 

 any part of the state. 



Ptmkum unciphyUum, Trin. Omitted in the lists but frequent in 

 all open dry fields of the northern part of the state. 



Paniatm lanuginosa*, Ell. North Bloomfield, August 2, 190 1 ; 

 open field south of the railroad cut; abundant. Jn the field it so 

 resembled P. unciphyUum, Trin., that I did not recognize the 

 specific difference ; yet when pressed and mounted the semblance 

 was decidedly different. 



Paniatm diehotomum, L. Pomfret, July 4, 1901 ; wood path to 

 the Wolf Den and vicinity ; frequent. 



Paniatm macrocaipon, Le Conte. Frequent throughout the north- 

 ern portions of the state. 



