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Robinson and Dr. J. M. Greenman failed to discover. Dr. Watson, 

 as I stated before, at first believed it to be a new species, and he 

 went so far as to attach a specific name to it on the sheet. He was, 

 however, evidently persuaded by Dr. Gray to abandon that position, 

 for he never published it. Whatever the plant jnay be, its extraor- 

 dinary appearance, so totally unlike that of virginicHm or canadt'nse, 

 or, in fact, of any species of Hydrophyllum, and the fact that it pre- 

 served its characters for so many years, seem to render it advisable 

 to put the plant on record as follows : 



Hydrophyllum sp. ? Branching perennial, 4 dm. high : rhizome 

 nodulose, horizontal or oblique : stem branching from near the base, 

 erect, striate, strigillose-pubescent, the short white very acute hairs 

 appressed or more often retrorse : leaves alternate, thin ; the blade 

 ovate, coarsely and pinnately about 9-toothed or parted, 6 to 8 cm. 

 long, 4 to 6 cm. broad, pinnately nerved; the teeth or lobes ovate 

 to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or obtusish, mucronate ; the sinuses acute 

 or narrowly rounded, above sparsely strigillose, dark green, beneath 

 paler and strigillose; lower petioles very long, 11 to 20 cm. in length, 

 the upper 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long: cymes round-topped, 2.5 cm. broad, 

 raised on slender, strigillose peduncles 2 to 7.5 cm. long; pedicels 

 in anthesis 3 mm. long : calyx deeply 5-parted ; lobes linear, acute, 

 3-nerved, strigillose on the outer surface, hispid-ciliate chiefiy near 

 the tip, 3.5 mm. long, 0.8 mm. broad: corolla funnel-formed, 5-parted 

 to the middle, 6 mm. long, probably white ; lobes oblong, rounded 

 at the apex; internal folds 2.5 mm. long; filaments 8 mm. long, 

 glabrous ; anthers oblong, mucronate : style filiform, glabrous, i cm. 

 long, shortly 2-cleft ; stigmas capitate; ovary hairy, i -celled, con- 

 taining the two large involute placentas characteristic of the genus, 

 but so far as can be determined entirely devoid of ovules. 



The Phacelias listed are waifs growing on flats, in wool-waste and 

 similar places, and have a general interest attaching to introduced 

 plants. 



In the Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine, published by Messrs. 

 Rand and Redfield in 1894, the late Dr. Thomas Morong comments, 

 on page 135, on a peculiar form of Utricularia ^ibba as follows: 

 ^' The flower has the spurs of U. hifiora very decidedly, but the foli- 

 age and the bladders are those of U.gibba. The spur here is oblong, 

 narrow, not curved but projecting straightwise, and the perianth is 

 somewhat larger than is generally the case in U, gibba. Other speci- 

 mens with foliage and bladders better represented might show this 

 to be U. biflora, but at present it is safer to call it ' (J. gibba verging 

 towards U. biflora in flowers.'" The letter containing the above 



