6o Rhodora [March 



Strobiles per peduncle 123 456 



Cases found 1 67 249 195 1 o 



Prevalent number 3, average 3.25. 



In low, rich woods the following results were obtained : 

 Strobiles per peduncle 1234 5 6 

 Cases found o 10 74 457 32 2 



The fours predominate strongly; the average number is 3.9. 

 The Ames Botanical Laboratory, North Easton, Massachu- 

 setts. 



Plants new to Eastern Massachusetts. — On June 14, 1901, 

 I found in a rocky path on the south side of one of the Blue Hills in 

 Milton, several specimens of Carex glaucodea, Tuckerm. This plant 

 has not before been reported east of Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 

 the Connecticut Valley, when Tuckerman discovered it in June, 1865, 

 in a similar rocky path on the south side of the mountain ; from this 

 point it has been found west and south to Illinois and Arkansas. 

 July 9 I noticed near the roadside in Milton a new Hieracium, H. vul- 

 gatum, Fries. The plants were in abundance behind an old wall on 

 land that had not been cultivated for twenty years or more and 

 included specimens of very varying size from three to thirty-two 

 inches high. 



On Aug. 15, at Scituate, I saw a singular looking brown /uncus 

 resembling J. nodosus, L., which I took to be J. scirpoides, Lam., but 

 on examination it proved to be J. brachycarpus, Engelm. This quite 

 southern species is reported in the February Rhodora as found near 

 New London, Connecticut, the past season by Dr. Graves, both sta- 

 tions new to New England. At Scituate it grew on a gravelly ridge 

 about a third of a mile from the ocean, and in a patch of peculiar 

 reddish soil quite different from the general soil of the ridge. The 

 gravel was in small equal sized particles with a peculiar greasy feel- 

 ing to the hand; and neither the plant nor the soil were observed 

 elsewhere. 



As an explanation of one possible distribution of plants 1 have 

 never seen any notice taken of the transportation of soil from any 

 distant place to another locality; but some years ago while walking 

 in Wareham, Massachusetts, I noticed a bit of fossil rock in the high- 

 way much like the stones on the Potomac shore near Mt. Vernon, 



