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in Scandinavia. In the first instance the Myurella was M. julacca, 

 (Vill.) Bry. Eur. and in the last ^. apiculata, (HUb.) Bry. Eur.— J. 

 Franklin Collins, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 



Some Introduc:ei) Weeds of Connec ticiit. — In the summer of 

 1897 I made a visit to Central Village, Connecticut, and collected a 

 few plants in that vicinity. Among others were three that I could 

 not determine by the aid of any of the manuals of the flora of North 

 America, but I had no trouble in linding them in several of the 

 European manuals. These plants as determined by myself, and 

 later by Mr. M. L. Fernald, were Jasione monfana, L., Campanula 

 patula, L., and Crcpis virens, L, The field in which these plants 

 were found had been seeded to clover the previous year. I was 

 able to trace the clover seed to an importing house in New York 

 City, giving me an extra clue as to how these weeds were introduced. 

 There were but a few plants at most of either species, but I collected 

 all that I could find. Last summer (1903) I visited the same field 

 and found an abundance of /^i'jvVv/d', distributed nearly over the entire 

 field. Of Campanula there were perhaps a dozen plants all near one 

 another, while Crcpis had evidently died out. At this time I found 

 large mats of Tliymus serpyllum, L., which had in all probability 

 been introduced with the other weeds, but which 1 did not happen 

 to see at the time that I found the others. In the same locality I 

 have found at various times a number of other weeds that have been 

 introduced from the West and elsewhere in grain and grass seed. 

 Among these are Agrostcmma Githago, L., Echium vulgare, L., 

 Silenc CnciihaJus^ Wibel, and S. tiic/wfoma, Ehrh., Sisymbriinn altissi- 

 viitm, E., So/anu?n rostratum, Dunal., Cuscuta Epithymum, Murr., 

 and a number of others that I have not determined yet, one of which 

 is probably Bcrtcroa incana^ DC. A number of the above have 

 already been sent to the herbarium of the New England Botanical 

 Club and others will be in course of time. — John L. Sheldon, West 

 Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. 



James Lawrence Bennett, whose name has long been associated 

 with the flora of Rhode Island, died at Hartford, Connecticut, April 

 30th, 1904. Mr. Bennett was born in Providence, April 8th, 1832. 

 He was educated in the public schools of his native city and prepared 



