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of Great Barrington two small trees of Quercus acuminata, Sargent. 

 The nearest stations to Great Barrington known to me for this tree 

 are Newberg, New York, where many years ago I saw a single speci- 

 men about two miles north of the city, and Gardener's Island in 

 Lake Champlain, the only place in New England, with the exception 

 of the one at Great Barrington, from which this tree has been 

 reported. Mr. Brainerd tells me that the trees on Gardener's Island 

 have recently been destroyed. On May 31st in driving from Great 

 Barrington to West Stockbridge we saw in a low wet meadow large 

 trees of Crataegus lobulata, Sargent, Crataegus Pringlei, Sargent, 

 and by the roadside a bush of Crataegus asperifolia, Sargent. — 

 C. S. Sargent, Arnold Arboretum. 



Two Noteworthy Carices at Sudbury Massachusetts. — On 

 June 17th, 1902, the writer accompanied by Messrs. M. L. Fernald 

 and W. P. Rich took an early train for South Sudbury, Massachusetts. 

 We went in quest of a rare sedge, Carex teretiuscula. Gooden. var. 

 ramosa, Boott, which Mr. Fernald and Miss Helen M. Noyes had 

 discovered in June, 190 1. It was found as we expected in a beautiful 

 little open peat bog in company with Pogonias, Arethusas and Sax- 

 ifrages and just in time to be collected. It had previously been 

 known in New England only from Vermont (see Brainerd, Jones and 

 Eggleston's Catalogue) and from the town of Mt. Washington, Berk- 

 shire County, Massachusetts (July 5, 1859, Wm. Boott in Herb. Gray). 

 Mr. Fernald also collected it this year on May 30th at Salisbury in 

 northwestern Connecticut. Thus its station at South Sudbury is the 

 first east of the Housatonic river, although the plant has since (July 

 13th) been found in a swamp at Presque Isle, Maine, by Mr. Fernald 

 and the writer. 



While we were busily pulling up a sufficiency of the Sudbury 

 material for distribution among our friends and correspondents Mr. 

 Fernald joyously exclaimed that he had discovered a new Carex. 

 We have often had this experience when botanizing with this accom- 

 plished caricologist and therefore were not particularly startled, but. 

 when we learned that it was Carex tetanka, Schkuhr, var. Woodii, 

 Bailey, we shared in his pleasure for we were informed that it had 

 been collected in New England only once before and then by himself 

 in a larch swamp on May 30th, 1902, at Salisbury, Connecticut. It 



