40 Rhodora [February 



place, and grows in almost every kind of soil. It begins flowering 

 in June and July, and is nearly the last plant that yields to the frosts 

 of November," while Pursh in the same year reported the plant " In 

 pastures on roadsides: New England." Since Pursh's explorations 

 in America were carried on between 1799 and 181 1 it is probable 

 that the plant had become introduced very early in the last century. 

 Michaux apparently did not mention the plant in 1803 and in 

 Manasseh Cutler's Account of some of the vegetable productions of 

 this region, published in 1785, there is no mention of any plant 

 which seems satisfactorily referable to Leontodon autumnalis. — 

 M. L. Fernald. 



LONICERA SEMPERVIRENS ESTABLISHED IN WESTFORD, MASSACHU- 

 SETTS. — About the first of October it was reported to me that the 

 Trumpet Honeysuckle was growing wild in the south part of the 

 town of Westford. I have been to see the place, and found in a 

 pasture on the Amos Leighton farm three spots where the plant was 

 growing on the eastern slope of the pasture, among berry bushes, 

 sweet fern, blackberry vines, etc. At the first station the Lonicera 

 was abundant and covered a space 15 feet in diameter. At the 

 second there were only a few roots under a walnut tree. Miss Leigh- 

 ton told me she had only seen one blossom here, and that one was 

 white. The third station had five or six strong plants. All the 

 stations were within a quarter of a mile or less from each other, and 

 all a half a mile from the farm house. As 1 do not find that this 

 Lonicera has been reported from many towns in Middlesex County, 

 its occurrence at Westford may be a matter of interest. — Emily E. 

 Fletcher, Westford, Massachusetts. 



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