1904] Deanc, — Lists of New England Plants, — XVI. 153 



scarlet flowers making a beautiful display. We were assured that 

 the plants had been established there for several years. The native 

 home of this species is South Carolma, south and west, and it is cul- 

 tivated freely in gardens, but we could not trace the source of the 

 Montague plants. 



Mrs. Nellie F. Flynn has sent me for examination a specimen of 

 Gilia linearis of which she found two plants growing near the Malted 

 Cereal Company's mills in Burlington, Vt., on July 26, 1902. (See 

 Torreya, III, 1903, 105.) In the herbarium of the New England 

 Botanical Club I find a specimen of this species collected by Mr. J. 

 C. Parlin in June, 1902, in an old field in North Berwick, in the 

 extreme southern part of Maine. The label states that the plant 

 probably originated from wool waste. These plants were of course 

 casual introductions, but the species may yet be found in northern 

 New England, for it is locally abundant on sandy beaches and rocky 

 hills of the Haie des Chaleurs between the Province of Quebec and 

 New Brunswick, and about seventy miles from the nearest point of 

 northern Maine. 



Mr. J. A. Collins of Lawrence, Mass., has sent me for examina- 

 tion a specimen of Giha which he collected on wool refuse in that 

 city on June 14, 1900, and noted in Rhodora, III, 1901, 92, as Gilia 

 androsacea, Steud. He has since presented it to the Gray Herbarium. 

 Dr. J. M. Greenman has kindly made a thorough study of the 

 specimen, and his report, dated May 7, 1904, is as follows : 



"I have compared carefully Mr. CoUins's specimen with the entire 

 representation of this genus in the Gray Herbarium, but I am unable 

 fo identify it unqualifiedly with any species there represented ; and I 

 am also unable to place it satisfactorily with anything recently de- 

 scribed in this genus. 



"The affinity of the plant is evidently with the Californian G. tri- 

 color, Bentli. and not with G. androsacea, Steud. A part of the original 

 collection on which Mr. Bentham founded his G. tricolor is in the 

 Gray Herbarium, and a comparison of Mr. CoUins's specimen with 

 this material shows the two plants, although differing in several 

 regards, to be conspecific. A considerable suite of specimens repre- 

 senting G. tricolor shows, moreover, that the species is quite variable, 

 more especially in the amount of pubescence and in the size and color 

 of the corolla. Giving due weight to the possibility of variation, the 

 single specimen secured by Mr. Collins seems to me to differ suffi- 



