1904] Graves, — Some Unusual Connecticut Plants 195 



Cumberland Center. This station is near the northern limit of the 

 plant in Maine. 



Sedum stoloniferiifn, Gmel. — This plant, a native of Asia Minor 

 and adjacent Europe, is well established and spreading in a yard at 

 Cumberland Center. It is doubtless a relic of earlier cultivation, 

 but no garden has been on the spot for ten or fifteen years, while 

 the area occupied is steadily increasing. 



Poteriutn Sanguisorba, L. — Abundant in a mowing field at Cumber- 

 land Foreside. 



Vicia ietrasperma., L, — Abundant at one station on the Maine 

 Central Railroad near Cumberland Junction, where it has persisted 

 for three years at least. This summer, 1904, it has also been col- 

 lected by Dr. D. W. Fellows at Cumberland Foreside, some three 

 miles from the first station. 



Euphorbia hirsuta, Wiegand. — Very abundant along the Grand 

 Trunk Railroad in Cumberland and Yarmouth. 



Nyssa sylvatica, Marsh. — Occasionally found in swampy woods in 

 Cumberland and North Yarmouth, in some cases growing in large 

 clumps with trees 30 or 40 feet in height. 



Galium boreale, L. — Quite abundant in a field at Pleasant Pond, 

 Caratunk, in Somerset county, where it was collected by Mr. J. Frank- 

 lin Collins and the author in August, 1902. It has been reported by 

 Mr. L. H. Baker from Exeter, Maine, in Rhodora, I. 75. 



Housto7iia purpurea calycosa, Gray. — One clump of this variety 

 was found in 1902 at Cumberland Center; previously it has been 

 reported by Mr. J. C. Parlin from North Berwick. 



Cumberland Center, Maine. 



SOME UNUSUAL CONNECTICUT PLANTS. 



C. B. Graves. 



Panicum Commonsianum, Ashe. — In June, 1903, this species was 

 found growing sparingly on a gravelly railroad bank at Giant's 

 Neck, in East Lyme. The determination was confirmed by Prof. 

 A. S. Hitchcock, of Washington, D. C. This is its second record 

 from Connecticut, the first being by Mr. C. A. Weatherby (Rhodora 

 VI, 42). 



