78 Rhodora [April 



the height of their flowering period. As Saunirus cernuus does 

 not appear to be recorded from Rhode Island, the discovery was 

 considered worthy of note, and fresh specimens were sent to the 

 Gray Herbarium and the Herbarium of Brown llniversity. The 

 locality in which these plants were found is about two and one- 

 half miles southwest of Adamsville, Rhode Island. The plants 

 seem to be well established, for a small stream running through an 

 open meadow was literally choked with Saururus for more than fifty 

 yards of its course. A more extended exploration of that neighbor- 

 hood failed to reveal another spot where the plants grew. The new 

 station is interesting from the fact that it brings Saururus cernuus 

 well across Rhode Island, and very nearly into Massachusetts. — 

 S. N. F. Sanford, Fall River, Massachusetts. 



Some Introduced Plants of Connecticut. — A group of plants 

 introduced in Connecticut, probably with grain, has already been 

 noted (Rhodora III : 60), and those growing in another place near 

 by seem worthy of a little space. This field was sowed in the spring 

 of 1902 with oats bought at a feed-store and also with a mixture of 

 timothy and clover seed. The first year I found growing among the 

 oats, sparingly. Cainelina sativa, Crantz. besides a number of other 

 more common weeds of grain fields, such as Brassica spp., Spcrgula 

 arvensis, L., Agrosfemma Githago, L., Linum nsitafissimum, L., and 

 Bromus sccalinus, L. In 1903 an abundance of Viola arvcns is ^ Murr., 

 in May was followed in July by a quantity of Cuscuta Rpiiliymufn, 

 Murr., in one patch, with occasional plants of Matricaria inodora, L., 

 and perhaps seven or eight individuals of ^luthctnis tinctoria, L. The 

 list is finished with Crcpis virens, L., which was found scattered over 

 the field on Sept. 3. Of the above species Camclina satii'a, L., and 

 Matricaria inodora, L. are not previously reported from the state so 

 far as I know, while Crepis vircns, L. does not appear in any list at 

 hand although credited to the state in Britton's Manual. The 

 Camelina can hardly claim a permanent place in our Mora, as it seems 

 to have already vanished ; the Matricaria will be looked for with 

 interest in 1904; but the Crepis has every appearance of being well 

 established. — E. B. Harger, Oxford, Connecticut. 



