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Calamintha Clinopoiiiiim, Benth. Common in dry woods and 

 copses throughout the southern towns of the county. 



Arditan Lappa, L., var. tomentosinti, Gray. One station in a 

 clearing. A remarkably handsome form (C H. Knoivlton atid E. B. 

 Chamberlain ) . 



SoUdago marrop/iylla, Pursh. A little grows on the higher part 

 of the mountain. Common on elevations above 1800 feet, and very 

 al-)undant on Mount Blue, in the same town (Avon). 



The flora of the pond is not appreciably different from that of 

 similar sheets of water at ordinary elevations. The dryness of the 

 cliffs seems to limit their flora to plants of one type, but I may later 

 discover wet cliffs. The mountain is particularly interesting on 

 account of its many southern species, mingled somewhat with north- 

 ern plants. 



Lexington, Massachusetts. 



The Death of William Wendte. — On April 28th, 1904, William 

 Wendte, an esteemed member of the New England Botanical C:lub, 

 was killed by hostile natives in British East Africa. He was born 

 August 28th, 1877, and his sudden death at the early age of twenty- 

 seven is the saddest that has occurred in the history of the Club. 

 Mr. Wendte, although for many years keenly interested in plants, was 

 diffident in the matter of publication and left no printed papers to 

 record his observations. He had traveled somewhat widely, making 

 for instance a visit to the Hawaiian Islands some years ago. The 

 plants which he collected there he generously deposited in the Gray 

 Herbarium. He first attracted the notice of professional botanists 

 by a series of minor but very discriminating criticisms on (iray's 

 Manual, which he sent to the editors. He was elected to membership 

 in the New England Botanical Club, February 3rd, 1899, and 

 although living beyond the limit of resident membership he attended 

 the meetings with great regularity. 



An active member of the Society of Friends, he had planned to 

 make an extended tour among the Friends' Industrial Missions 

 throughout the world. He had reached the station of Kaimosi, 

 about twenty miles northeast of Port Florence in British East Africa 

 early in March. The hostile Nandi tribe had at that time become 



