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supposing them to be the immature capsules of the fairly common 
B. aphylla, only about fifty specimens were collected. I remembered 
having at my home in New Haven, Connecticut, a reprint of an 
article by Professor E. J. Durand, on Buxbaumia from the Bulletin of 
the Torrey Botanical Club. On my return a few days later, I was 
surprised and delighted to find that his description of the rare B. 
indusiata was the one which fitted my plants. Material was sub- 
mitted to Mrs. E. G. Britton of New York for verification. So far as 
I am able to learn, this is the first time that the species has been 
collected in New England. 
The stations given by Professor Durand are: — Catskill moun- 
tains, New York, 1869 (C. H. Peck); Seattle, Washington, 1889 
(C. V. Piper); Traille river basin, Idaho, 1889 (J. B. Leiberg); and 
Enfield, New York, 1893 (Æ. J. Durand). 
The Surry station was again visited in August, 1903, but although 
the log was identified after a thorough search, it had only a very few 
green capsules. Many dry capsules were present, the remains of 
last year's crop. Though B. indusiata is said to occur usually on 
decayed coniferous logs, a few undecayed knots and portions of the 
trunk proved this to be a poplar log, probably P. tremuloides, which 
grows abundantly in the vicinity. Specimens of this rare moss from 
Surry have been placed in the collections of Professor W. G. Farlow, 
Harvard University ; Mr. J. F. Collins, Brown University ; and in 
the Eaton Herbarium of Yale University.— B. MADELINE BRITTON, 
New Haven, Connecticut. 
GALINSOGA IN MaiNE. — On September 29, 1902, when in Ando- 
ver, Maine, I was asked by a friend to look at a weed that was 
becoming very abundant in his garden. It proved to be Galinsoga 
parviffora, Cav., var. hispida DC., and was well established in both 
cultivated and waste ground. During the past summer on July 24th 
and other subsequent dates I found this plant also at Seal Harbor 
(Mount Desert), Maine. It was there growing in abandoned garden- 
plots to the practical exclusion of other weeds. These two stations 
I think, may be noteworthy as extensions of range. — EDWARD L. 
Ranp, Boston. 
