22 Rhodora [Jam \kv 



marshes and is a more southern plant, [t differs from G. tifiitoriioii 

 in the fruit which is only one-half as large, the carpels of the latter spe- 

 cies being 2.25-3 '^'"- ^'^ diameter, in the position of the fruit on short 

 stout apparently lateral branches, and in the more reflexed leaves 

 which are of equal breadth throughout or slightly spatulate, but not 

 with a tendency toward the lanceolate form as in G. tinctoriutn. But 

 it is similar to the latter species in the smooth stem, sparsity of 

 flowers, 4-parted acute-lobed corolla and fruit maturing usually but 

 one carpel, and in the hollow spherical endosperm. 

 CoRNKLi, University, Ithaca, New York. 



A Newi.v iNrRonucKD Galium. — Last summer in the latter part 

 of June, while wandering through a low, swampy meadow at Norfolk, 

 Conn., I chanced upon a small clump of yellow Galium. 



At hrst sight I thought the plant was the yellow bedstraw that is 

 occasionally found in this region, G. Tcrum, L., and wondered that it 

 should blossom a month earlier than usual and choose such soil, as 

 before I had always found it in dry, sandy tields. Upon closer 

 inspection I was convinced that this clump was not G. Tenim. The 

 plants were more slender with fewer and larger flowers, while the 

 flower clusters were shorter and more scattered upon the stem. Being 

 unable to find any description of it, a specimen was sent to the (iray 

 Herbarium where it was determined as G. praecox, Lang in liagen- 

 bach's Flora Basiliensis Supplement, 26 (1843). The Norfolk plant 

 was compared with specimen no. 2222 " Flora Exsiccata Austro-Hun- 

 garica " and was also matched with specimens from Deidesheim 

 collected by Schultz Bipontinus and labeled G. IVirfge/ii, Schultz, 

 the latter name appearing to be a synonym for G. praecow Lang. 

 Our plant is a native of Central Europe and this, so far as known, is 

 the first report of its introduction into New Pingland. — Mar\' 

 C. Seymour, Norfolk, Connecticut. 



Pi.ANis New to the 1''i,()ra of Nkw Bkdkord. — In a dumping 

 ground on the outskirts of New Bedford I found in June a colony of 

 about a dozen plants l>earing diminutive, white, umbellate flowers. It 

 was necessary to revisit the locality later to obtain fruited specimens 

 essential in determining the species, which proved to be Coriaiuhiiin 



