1904] Deane, — Lists of New England Plants, — XVI. 155 



panied his letter. Phlox subulata grows naturally on Staten Island, 

 and may possibly be found in western New England. 



Phlox divaricata is indigenous near Quebec and in northern and 

 western New York and consequently should be expected in northern 

 and western New England. 



Mr. H. E. Sargent of Wolfboro, N. H., has shown me a specimen 

 of Polenio7iium reptans^ doubtless an escape from cultivation, which a 

 pupil of his collected in that town at a distance from any garden, on 

 May 27, 1901. This species may be found growing naturally in 

 western New England, for it occurs in New York State. 



I have in my herbarium a specimen of Polemonium Va/i-Bni/itiif. 

 collected on July 5, 1879, in Kipton, Vt., on the border of Abby 

 Pond, 1500 feet above sea level, by President Ezra Brainerd, who 

 recorded it in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, VIII, 1881, 

 6. The range of this species as now known is limited to Vermont, 

 New York, New Jersey and Maryland. It should be sought for in 

 western Massachusetts and Connecticut. 



Mr. W. P. Rich has given me a specimen of Ellisia Nyctelea col- 

 lected by him in Everett, Massachusetts, on the border of the Revere 

 Beach Parkway, on June i, 1902. The plant was numerously 

 represented and had been introduced in grass seed. Mr. Rich has 

 recorded it in Rhodora, IV, 1902, 170. The species grows natu- 

 rally from Virginia, south and west. 



I very much doubt if there is extant a specimen of HydrophyUum 

 canadense from New England, but it certainly grows in western 

 Massachusetts, for Mr. Ralph Hoffmann tells me that he collected it 

 on the north slope of Greylock Mountain close to or within the 

 limits of Williamstown on June 29, 1899. As he was not preserving 

 plants at the time no specimens were kept. It grew "along a brook- 

 side," but Mr. Hoffmann did not see much of it. Botanists will cer- 

 tainly visit this locality again, and the species will surely come to 

 light before long. Dr. Jacob Bigelow, in his Florula Bostoniensis, 

 2d edition, published in Boston in 1824, says, on page 73, of H. 

 canadense, " Collected in the western part of the State." A little 

 later Professor Edward Hitchcock, in his Catalogue of plants grow- 

 ing without cultivation in the vicinity of Amherst College, published 

 at Amherst in 1829, says, on p. 23, "Windsor, Dr. l*orter." I find 

 other references to this species from Massachusetts, all relating, 

 where any definite locality is given, to the Connecticut valley or' 



