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Europe (Sweden) early in June, but cannot say when it begins to 

 flower at the Vinnicunnet stations, which I have not visited before 

 July. 



Lake Vinnicunnet is situated near the town of Norton, Massachu- 

 setts, 7^ miles from North Easton along the Bay Road and 5$ miles 

 northward from the city of Taunton. The eastern shore is bordered 

 by a broad belt of boggy soil supporting a luxuriant vegetation 

 including most of our commonest bog-plants, besides the above 

 mentioned species of Utricularia, there are also Eriocaulon septang- 

 ulare, Withg., Hypericum ellipticum, Hook., Nymphaea odorata, var. 

 minor, Sims, Sabbatia chloroides, Pursh, and others. Higher on the 

 gravelly shore grow Stachys palustris, L. and Hydrocotyle umbellata, 

 L. Other stations for Utricularia minor may well be found here, 

 but owing to the depth of the bog, the obstacles to search are almost 

 insurmountable. — Carl Blomberg, North Easton, Massachusetts. 



Gleditschia triacanthos established in Connecticut. — As the 

 question of the naturalization of Gleditschia triacanthos, L., the 

 Honey Locust, in New England, appears to be a matter of some con- 

 troversy, perhaps a few notes taken on its spread in this vicinity 

 may be of interest. A few weeks ago I visited a section where trees 

 of this species appear to be most numerous. Erom a row of eight or 

 ten individuals planted by the roadside they have spread across the 

 hills for about a mile. I counted no in all. To a certain extent 

 they appear in what one might call colonies of from ten to thirty trees ; 

 in other places they are scattered, standing singly. A great many of 

 the trees had been cut down but the stumps remained and were meas- 

 ured. They varied from two to twelve inches in diameter ; some were 

 even larger, one having reached a diameter of eighteen inches. The 

 species is very persistent, for when the trees are cut down a dozen 

 or more sprouts spring up about the stump. In the region where 

 they grow steep hills of gravel are interspersed with valleys of sandy 

 loam and the trees stand mostly in the valleys. 



Now the question naturally arose, how did these trees with their 

 long heavy pods that can at best be blown only a few rods from the 

 parent tree get to such a distance. This question I asked of the 

 owner of the land and he immediately explained that cows ate the 

 pods with relish, in fact appeared rather fond of them. If this state- 



