1902] Robinson, — Veronica Chamaedrys in New P^ngland 107 



Matricaria discoidea, DC. I have recently found in several places 

 in the city, growing on sidewalks made by filling in sand or gravel. 

 Lysimachia vulgaris, L. not to be found here formerly, has suddenly 

 appeared and been seen in widely different localities. The bright 

 and attractive little Sabbatia stel/aris, Salisb. was found in a marsh 

 by the sea for the first time last summer; the larger species S. chlo- 

 roides has always been common here. — E. Williams Hervey, New 

 Bedford, Massachusetts. 

 [Scabiosa auslralis occurs in abundance at Ravnham, Massachusetts. — Ed.] 



Veronica Chamaedrys in New England. — Veronica Chamaedrys, 

 L., an attractive European species of speedwell has long been recog- 

 nized as a rather local introduction in our Middle States. Its range 

 in the sixth edition of Gray's Manual does not include New England 

 and while the range given by Professor Britton in his recently pub- 

 lished Manual is extended eastward to Nova Scotia, the species is 

 still so local and so little known in New England that it seems worth 

 while to record the following stations which have been recently 

 brought to the attention of the staff of the Gray Herbarium. 



In June, 1895, Mr. Walter Deane showed me a small patch of 

 this Veronica in the shade of trees at the edge of a large inclosed 

 tract of grass land between Cambridge and Watertown, Massachu- 

 setts. There was no evidence that its presence there was the result 

 of cultivation, either present or past, and it was scattered in a firm 

 turf of grasses and clover quite in the manner in which several of 

 the other and more frequent species of Veronica occur. 



A little later Mr. Edward B. Chamberlain sent to Mr. Eernald 

 specimens of V. Chamaedrys collected in damp soil at New Castle, 

 Maine. This station was recorded in the Second Supplement to the 

 Portland Catalogue of Maine plants. 



In the summer of 1901 Mr. W. H. Blanchard found this species 

 closely covering several rods of an old mowing on the slope of Glebe 

 Mountain, at Windham, Vermont, which is its first recorded station 

 in that state. 



Last summer the plant was also reported by Mrs. H. A. Penniman 

 as occurring at South Braintree, Massachusetts. Concerning it 

 she writes as follows : " The plant was found by a small boy in 

 South Braintree, May 30, 1901, in deep grass a little removed from 



