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who had seen it within our area and inferred that it had disappeared 

 from our flora. It seems probable that the station reported by the 

 present writer is the one from which the New Haven specimens 

 referred to were taken so many years ago, and which had become 

 forgotten. Since Judge Churchill's article was published, Mr. C. H. 

 Bissell has discovered this Phaseolus in Norwalk, Connecticut 

 (Rhodora iv:i3) and Mr. E. B. Harger has reported it from 

 Huntington (Rhodora v : 291). The nearest of these two stations 

 is some ten miles from New Haven and it is not likely that either of 

 them can have been the source of the specimens referred to by 

 Judge Churchill. 



On August 3d. 1903, the writer noticed by the roadside on the out- 

 skirts of New Haven an unfamiliar grass in full bloom, which proved 

 to be MoUnia coeruka, Moench. This grass was afterwards found 

 at several places within a mile of the first station, and apparently well 

 established at each place. It continued to dower for several weeks, 

 and is a stately and handsome species.— R. W. Woodward, New 

 Haven, Connecticut. 



Stellaria glauca established in the Province ok Quebec. — 

 Among several plants of interest, recently received at the Gray Her- 

 barium from Judge J. R. Churchill, is the European Stellaria glauca, 

 Withering. It was collected on the railway which runs from Quebec 

 along the north bank of the St. Lawrence River to Ste. Anne de 

 Beaupre. It was observed at several points along the line, but in 

 particular abundance near a small flag-station about three miles west 

 of Ste. Anne de Beaupr6 where it was thoroughly established. The 

 species shares the general habit of S. longifolia, Muhl., S. longipcs, 

 Goldie, and S. graminea, L., and as it is likely to be found at other 

 American localities, it may be worth while to mention its distinctive 

 features. It is for the genus tall and slender (3 to 5 dm. in height), 

 entirely glabrous and pale green. The leaves are linear and very 

 acute, 2 to 3.5 cm. long and for the most part not over 2 mm. in breadth. 

 At their bases where they are connate by narrow subscarious mem- 

 branes they are entirely free from ciliation. The flowers are rather 

 large, the petals being 8 to 12 mm. long. In S. gramitiea, S. longifo 

 Ha, and S. longipes the petals are only 3 to 6 mm. in length. In the 

 American forms of 5. graminea and in S. longifolia the bases of the 



