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rather high, wet pasture, and though I searched the place carefully, 

 could not find another. A part of the specimen was sent to Mr. John 

 Robinson of Salem. It was forwarded later to the Gray Herbarium, 

 where it was determined as Cuphea procumbens, Cav., a species of 

 southern Mexico. 1 am told that the only record of this species from 

 any part of the United States is a note by Dr. J. K. Small in the 

 Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, xxiii. 295 (1896), where it is 

 stated that Cuphea procumbent had been collected as a garden escape 

 in Macon County, Georgia, by Mr. A. M. Huger. It is difficult to 

 account for the occurrence of the species in Andover, but the fact of 

 its presence here seems worthy of record. — M. E. GuTTERSON, And- 

 over, Massachusetts. 



Erodium moschatum in Connecticut. —On September 28th the 

 writer found in Hartford some specimens of an unfamiliar plant. 

 Three were gathered and taken home for identification. They 

 proved to be Erodium moschatum, V Her., a species which appears 

 not to have been reported from Connecticut before. The spot was 

 revisited a week later and two more specimens of the Erodium were 

 found and still another was discovered at a distance of several rods, 

 thus making six plants in all. Of these, hve were found by the side 

 of an old warehouse that has been used for many years for storing 

 paper stock. It is near the railroad and steamboat landing. The 

 soil in which the plants grew is a mixture of ashes, cinders, and such 

 other stuff as would be likely to collect in such a place. The last 

 and smallest plant was rooted in a lump of old cotton that had 

 been trodden down into the ground. From the Gray Herbarium 1 

 am informed that Erodium moschatum has been found in New Eng- 

 land at the following stations : In wool-waste at North Berwick, 

 Maine, by Mr. J. C. Parlin ; on waste land in South Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts, by Messrs. E. and C. E. Faxon ; also reported from Lowell, 

 Westford, and Chelmsford, Massachusetts (see Dame & Collins, 

 Flora of Middlesex County), and at Concord, Massachusetts (see 

 Hosmer in Rhodora. i. 223). At all these points the plant has been 

 found on or near mill or warehouse refuse. The species is a native 

 of the Old World but is extensively naturalized on our Pacific coast, 

 whence it has been probably brought to New England in western 

 wool. — H. S. Clark, Hartford, Connecticut. 



