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On August 1 8th, 1902, 1 found this Verbena with bright pink 

 Mowers instead of the common blue or rarer white ones. The plants 

 were growing in mud on the margin of a lily pool and in the closest 

 proximity to the typical Verbena hastata, L., which they strongly 

 resemble. After a most careful examination and comparison of the 

 two forms, no difference was detected excepting in color. The 

 inflorescence, manner of growth, form and texture of the leaves were 

 all alike. I counted sixteen plants of the roseate-flowered form 

 growing in a small space. 



Calamintha Acinos, L. During the summer of 1900 my atten- 

 tion for the first time was attracted to Calamintha Acinos, L., which 

 at Centreville has come under my close observation in each succeeding 

 year. The plant has previously been known in New England only 

 from southern Vermont and northwestern Massachusetts. It grows 

 at Centreville in small patches in a dry, sandy soil, with no shade 

 whatever. In close companionship with Calamintha Acinos is found 

 Calamintha Clinqpodium, Benth., from season to season, but less 

 abundantly. According to Gray's Manual of Botany, the latter 

 plant is indigenous from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains. 

 Both of these plants flower in July. 



Vaccinium stamineum, L. This shrub was formerly known in 

 New England only from Berkshire County and the mountains of 

 Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and from Connecticut, but three 

 years ago I found at Centreville a half dozen of these shrubs growing 

 close together in an open, dry, sandy field, on both sides of a cart- 

 road leading to a pond near by. The most vigorous of these was 

 from three to four feet in height, in form compact and most symmet- 

 rical. The shrub flowers the last of May or early in June. There 

 seems to be no ''off year" for fruit, for the branches yield berries 

 in great abundance each successive season. 



Specimens of these plants from Cape Cod have been submitted 

 to the staff of the Herbarium of Harvard University and I am much 

 indebted to Dr. B. L. Robinson and Mr. M. L. Eernald for valuable 

 assistance in the identification. 

 Boston, Massachusetts. 



