62 Rhodora [March 



15, 1901, I found it growing commonly and in full blossom between 

 Kenduskeag and Corinth. It was in fields and meadows and by the 

 roadside. The plant must have been established in this locality for 

 a number of years in order to have become so abundant. The com- 

 mon Orange Hawk-weed, Hierttcium aurantiacuni, was growing asso- 

 ciated with the preceding and equally abundant. — (). W. Knight, 

 Bangor, Maine. 



[//. p rii at It u ///, characterized as the- worst weed which has recently appeared 

 in Maine, has destroyed many hay fie Ids in the Kennebec Valley, where Mr. 

 H. K. Morrell and others have made vigorous though usually vain attempts 

 to arouse the farmers to their obligation to check its rapid encroachment. 

 Its spread in the l'enohscot Valley, where //. auraiitiacum, the Orange 



Hawk-weed or "Devil's Paint-brush," is already a pest, should be scrupu- 

 lously guarded against. — Ed.] 



CYPRIPEDIUM arietinum on Mr. Toby, Massachusetts. — In 

 the list of New England plants published by Mr. E. T. Williams in 

 the January number of R.HODORA, CypripeJium arictiuutn, R. Br. has 

 been omitted from the Massachusetts column, but it still grows on 

 Mt. Toby where it was first reported by Clark as recorded in Tuck- 

 erman's Amherst Flora. I found the plant growing there in 1874; 

 and apparently its numbers have not decreased from that day to 

 this. 



So far as I know, the only species that should now be stricken 

 from Tuckei man's Amherst list is Lysimachia punctata, \j. It grew 

 in South Amherst near a roadside fence that has since been removed 

 and the ground plowed up. Perhaps it now grows elsewhere in the 

 Amherst region, but it is no longer found in the locality where it 

 was first reported. — L. H. Elwell, Amherst, Massachusetts. 



Liparis Loeselii in Massachusetts. — After the January issue 

 of Rhodora had been mailed it was found that the plate of page 19 

 had been damaged during the press-work and that in all the later 

 copies the plus sign, indicating in the tabular matter the occurrence 

 of Liparis Loeselii in Massachusetts, was completely obliterated. 

 The species is, of course, well known in Massachusetts, and was duly 

 recorded for the state by Mr. Williams in his very full and critical list 

 of our New England orchids. 



The Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine, — Mid-winter 

 Meeting. — The meeting of the Josselyn Botanical Society of 

 Maine, held at the rooms of the Portland Society of Natural History, 



