1902] Eggleston, — Comandra and Lycopodium 97 



Dr. R. E. Kunze, Rhus versus Cypripedium, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 vi. 22. (Poisonous qualities of our Cypripediums denied.) 



Botanical Gazette, xii, 275. (Editorial mention.) 



Prof. H. G. Jesup, Bot. Gaz. xviii. 142. (Instances of poisoning 

 by C, spectabile recorded briefly.) 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Minnesota Botanical Studies, i. 32-36. 

 (Records a conclusive experiment showing poisonous qualities of 

 C. spectabile.) 



V. K. Chesnut, Principal Poisonous Plants, Bull. 20, U. S. Dept. 

 Agric, Div. Bot. 189S, pp. 19, 20. (Compiled from the preceding 

 and without new data.) 



As widely divergent opinions have been expressed in these papers 

 and as the poisonous qualities of C. spectabile, although rightly sus- 

 pected by Professors Babcock and Jesup, and definitely demonstrated 

 by Dr. MacDougal, are not widely known, there seems room for the 

 independently prepared notes presented above. — A. E. B. 



THE DISCOVERY OF COMANDRA LIVIDA AND LYCO- 

 PODIUM SITCHENSE ON MT. WASHINGTON. 



W. W. Eggleston. 



Since Mt. Washington has been so thoroughly explored by a multi- 

 tude of good botanists, it gives one a glow of pleasure to find a new 

 alpine species there. This was particularly so to me, for but a short 

 time before I had been told by one of the old enthusiasts in the 

 botany of the region that there was no chance of new discoveries 

 there. 



In company with Mr. H. E. Sargent I made a delightful two days' 

 trip about the mountain June 25 and 26, 1901. We had never 

 visited the station for Rubus Chamaemorus at Mt. Clinton on account 

 of its great distance from our usual base, the Glen ; but on the 

 morning of June 26th we started on our long 25 mile trip from the 

 Half Way House on the carriage road over to Mt. Clinton and back 

 by the carriage road to the Glen. On reaching Mt. Clinton, it 

 proved very difficult to find flowering specimens of the Rubus so late 

 in the season ; and it was during a search for these that I found 



