206 Rhodora [October 



specimens from Brownfield, Maine, collected August 22, 1896, by E. 

 D. Merrill, and the writer has recently received the species from 

 Alvah A. Eaton who collected it September 15, 1899, on Pautucka- 

 way Mt., Nottingham, New Hampshire. 



The two species of Buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentnm, Moench 

 and F. tatariatm, Gaertn. are such frequent escapes from cultiva- 

 tion and also from transportation by railways as to have become 

 generally common, with the exception of the latter species which has 

 not yet been reported from Rhode Island and Connecticut, although 

 common in the northern part of our range. 



While this list is far from complete it has been thought best to 

 publish it at this time with the hope that attention being called to its 

 incompleteness the desired information as to the occurrence of the 

 various species can be more readily obtained. 



Vol. 4, no. 43, containing pages 171 to /go and plate jg, was issued 17 Septem- 

 ber, igo2. 



