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possessed by the fern in this direction. — C. E. Waters, Johns Hop- 

 kins University. 



[Since the above was written two more specimens were found on tlie steep 

 side of a railroad cut. Plainly this form is not rare but has merely been over- 

 looked bv collectors. — C. E. W.] 



JuNCus EFFUsus, VAR. coMPACTUS IN New Hamps]iire. — In Pre- 

 liminary Lists of New England Plants,— XIII. Juncaceae (Rhodora, 

 vi. 34) /uncus cffusus, var. cojtipacfus, Lejeune & Courtois, is recorded 

 only from Maine and Massachusetts. On 13 August, 1903, I found 

 this plant, with/, effusus^ L., beside a brook in East Andover, New 

 Hampshire. — Mary A. Day, Gray Herbarium. 



Plantago elongata in Massachusetts. — The published records 

 for this plant in New England, do not extend the range of Plantago 

 elongata, Pursh, further to the northeast than Greenwich, R. I. In 

 the spring of 1901, however, Mr. J. E. Collins and the writer collected 

 this plant in East Providence, R. I., and a few days latter in Seekonk, 

 Massachusetts. The stations are extensive and the plant well estab- 

 lished, so without doubt further search will result in extending the 

 known range towards Cape Cod. — Edward B. Chamberlain, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Miss Eastman's New England Eerns and their common 

 AlliesMs a neat i2mo volume of 160 pages. The style is popular 

 without being effusive and the information given is unusually accurate 

 for a non-technical book. Even such recently published species and 

 varieties as Nephrodium pittsfordnise and N. spifuilosu?n, var. con- 

 cordianum are duly included, showing that the authoress has taken 

 considerable pains to follow up the latest work on her subject. The 

 nomenclature is in the main that of the sixth edition of Gray's Man- 

 ual. In the present divergence of nomenclatorial practice it is well 

 nigh impossible, however, to treat any considerable group consist- 

 ently without creating some new combinations. Of these, the foUow- 



1 Houghton, MifHin & Co., Boston, July, 1904, $1.25. 



