1904] I lilli — Polygamy of Chionanthus 89 



the waste material from the mill. In the case of Hclianthus mollis, 

 it is probable, judging from the less bunched position of the plants, 

 that the cotton waste containing the seeds was spread on the field as 

 a fertilizer, a not uncommon practice. — S. N. F. Sanford, Fall 

 River, Massachusetts. 



Note on the Polygamy of Chionanthus. — In the article of Mr. 

 Rehder in Rhodora (6: 18, 1904), concerning the polygamy of the 

 fiowers of Chionanthus Virginica, there is reference to a statement of 

 Thomas Meehan that it is mentioned in the later edition of Gray's 

 Manual, which Mr. Rehder has failed to verify, Mr. Meehan evi- 

 dently referred to what is found in a brief characterization of 

 Chionanthus among the tribal divisions of Oleaceae in the sixth 

 edition, p. 335. It is said of the genus: ''Flowers complete, some- 

 times polygamous." Such a character might be construed as a gen- 

 eral one and be referred to the genus as including C. retusa. But 

 it is not the custom of the book, designed to help students of the 

 Mora to a safe knowledge of what they may expect to find in the area 

 it covers, to put in needless statements. Then this habit of the 

 plants had not been given in former editions where the tribal divi- 

 sions are also characterized, and the inference from this would be 

 that the polygamy was that of C virginica^ the only one of the genus 

 described. The statement not being placed in the full description of 

 the genus or species is easily overlooked. — E. J. Hill, Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



Two noteworthy Plants of New Haven, Connecticut. — 

 Phaseolus perennis, Walt, was collected by the writer, in flower, on 

 August i8th, 1903, and later in good fruit, in the woods skirting the 

 base of East Rock, New Haven. It makes a vigorous growth here, 

 and the vines cover the low ledges over which they climb. The sta- 

 tion is only a few rods from the edge of a salt marsh, and at a 

 slight elevation above it. In Rhodora II : 92, April, 1900, Hon. 

 J. R. Churchill discusses the occurrence of Phaseolus perennis in New 

 England, and states that the record for New England rested at that 

 time solely on three specimens all collected more than forty years 

 before at New Haven, Conn. He could find no other New England 

 specimens of the species in our principal herbaria, nor any botanist 



