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Euphorbia Peplus, L. 



" platyphylla, L. 



" polygonifolia, L. 



" Preslii, Guss. 



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Notes on the above List. 



Saururus cernuus^ L. was found on July 29, 1903, by B. Cook, Jr. 

 and S. N. F. Sanford at Adamsville, Rhode Island, but a few miles 

 from the Massachusetts line (see Rhodora, vi. 77). It should be 

 looked for, therefore, in the latter State. 



That Arceuthobium pusilhtm, Peck has as yet not Been reported 

 from Rhode Island is doubtless due to the scarcity in that State of 

 one of its commonest hosts, Picea nigra, Link. A careful search, 

 however, of the trees recorded in Rhodora VI, 41-42 will perhaps 

 reveal this interesting parasite which is probably well distributed 

 through much of New England. 



Croton capitatus, Michx. is represented by a sheet in the herbarium 

 of the New England Botanical Club collected in South Boston, 

 Massachusetts, in 1879. The name of the collector is not given. 



Croton texcnsis, Muell. was found by Dr. C. W. Swan on a dump 

 in the Back Bay, Boston, in 1890. This and the preceding species 

 seem too fugitive to be included in the list above. 



Euphorbia glyptosperma, Engelm. is to be expected from Con- 



