156 Rhodora [July 



west. Reverend Chester Dewey, in his Report on the herl:)aceous 

 flowering plants of Massachusetts, Cambridge, 1840, on page 187, 

 gives as the habitat of this species, "woods and hedges; June," but 

 leaves the locality indefinite. 



Hydrophyllum canadense was reported from Connecticut nearly 

 three quarters of a century ago in a Catalogue of the phenogamous 

 Plants and of the Ferns, found within five miles of Yale College, by 

 Doctors Eli Ives, William Tully, and Melines C. Leavenworth, pub- 

 lished in the Annals of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, 

 in 183 1, by Ebenezer Baldwin. The reference occurs on page 282 

 where the name is inserted without comment. There must have 

 been considerable botanical activity in those early days, for the 

 authors say in the preface preceding the list : — "within five miles 

 of Yale College, somewhat more than 1150 phenogamous plants and 

 ferns, have already been ascertained." Recent lists give no addi- 

 tional information in regard to this plant ; they either make very 

 indefinite references to it or omit it altogether. It must certainly 

 have occurred in New England when such definite localities have 

 been recorded by botanists of distinction, and it will be most inter- 

 esting to learn of the rediscovery of the species in western New 

 England. Although it does not occur very close to the borders of 

 New England, yet in Dr. John Torrey's Flora of the State of New 

 York, published at Albany in 1843, we find in volume II, page 92, 

 that it grows "In rich shady soils, northern and western parts of 

 the State ; common." 



HydrophyUiitn appendiculatnm is reported from Connecticut in the 

 same list mentioned above under H. canadense. The name occurs 

 on the same page and is also without comment. The nearest station 

 that I can find for this species is the flats of the Mohawk River, 

 near Utica, New York, where the plant is rare as it is elsewhere in 

 the State. 



In the herbarium of Brown University there is a specimen of 

 Hydrophyllum virginicum labelled in Mr. J. L. Bennett's handwriting, 

 ''Hydrophyllum, R. I. July, 1881, G. Hunt." As the label is not 

 the original one and the locality is very indefinite, it is best to dis- 

 regard the evidence furnished by the specimen. It may have been 

 an escape, but more proof is needed that the species is native to the 

 State. 



At least twenty-five years ago Mr. C. G. Pringle found in a patch 



