1902] Scorgie, — Jasione montana in Massachusetts. 199 



for over a mile are clothed with Sedum acre. At our last visit, Poly- 

 gonum Virginianum was in bloom and abundant. — W. Whitman 

 Bailey, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 



Jasione Montana in Massachusetts. — This summer I found a 

 single plant of Jasione montana growing wild at Wareham, Massa- 

 chusetts. It was on a sandy slope in a field about two hundred feet 

 from a railroad track and near an inlet of Onset Bay. The nearest 

 habitation was an old farmhouse about a fourth of a mile away, and 

 there were no other houses in the vicinity. I first saw the plant 

 August fourth, when it was blooming freely and it was still blooming 

 September sixteenth when I left Wareham. 



/as/one montana has been abundant for several years on Conani- 

 cut Island, Rhode Island, and it once appeared as a transient weed in 

 a nursery at Reading, Massachusetts. 1 Although it is not established 

 at Wareham, the appearance of the plant there may be worthy a 

 definite record. — Anna M. Scorgie, Radcliffe College. 



A New Mushroom for the Market. — For some years several 

 species of mushrooms, gathered from the fields, have found a ready 

 sale in the Boston market. Among these, in addition to the common 

 Agaricus campestris, are Coprinus aframentarius, C. comatus, and 

 Tricholoma personalum. My attention has recently been called to 

 the selling of Lepiota naucina. This toadstool is sometimes abundant 

 in rich grass land, and within a few years has appeared in unusual 

 size and numbers in the grass plots along the new parkway around 

 Soldiers' Field, on the Boston side of Charles River near Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. Here, in company with Lepiota Americana, and the 

 white form of L. ccpaestipes, it has called forth the wondering inquiries 

 of passersby, for the number and size of the fungi has been truly 

 astonishing. This year the locality is regularly visited in the early 

 morning hours by assiduous collectors, so that the display of mush- 

 rooms, so conspicuous a year or two ago, is in a measure prevented. 

 One of these collectors has found that Lepiota naucina, in the button 

 stage, is salable at fifty cents a pound. He is quoted as saying that 

 he has known ten pounds to appear over night. — H. Webster, Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts. 



X J. F. Collins, Bull. Torr. CI. xxiii. 212. 



