1904] Clark, — Dalibarda repens near Boston 227 



St. Francis, Aroostook Co., Maine, Ff?yiald, no. 2244, June 18, 

 1898. 



Bkie Hill Reservation, near Boston, Mass., Charles L. FoHard, 

 Aug. 24, 1898. 



Bridgeport, Conn., E. H. Eatnes, May 19, 1895. 



Another sheet collected by Mr. Fernald at Orono, Penobscot Co., 

 Maine (no. 2256) agrees with the type in all characters except the 

 shape of the leaf blades, which are more ovate and cordate in outline 

 and more densely pubescent. 

 Washington, D. C. 



Dalibarda repens near Boston. — Although the dainty little 

 plant, Dalibarda repens, L., may not be in reality far out of its course, 

 yet it seems to have aroused much interest among botanists in this 

 section who have recently learned of its being well-established within 

 thirteen miles of Boston. Deep in the woods of Holbrook, far from 

 dwelling houses, it covers an area of fully a quarter of a mile in ex- 

 tent, usually being scattered about here and there, but occasionally 

 forming large mats, which are easily distinguishable from a distance. 

 Several hundred plants were in blossom at the time I first visited the 

 place with my mother, Mrs. G. I^. Grinnell, who first found this little 

 colony. The plants border a swamp but seem to keep up just out of 

 the wet. In company with the Dalibarda I noticed cinnamon ferns, 

 mountain laurel, low blackberry vines, and Lycopodiums. There is 

 no doubt that the Dalibarda repens^ L., is as perfectly indigenous as 

 any of its neighbors mentioned, for the plants are widely scattered 

 and show evidence of long residence. — Alice G. Clark, East Wey- 

 mouth, Massachusetts. 



MiMULUs MoscHATUS IN MASSACHUSETTS. — While driving through 

 Warwick, Franklin County, in August, 1902, I met for the first time in 

 Massachusetts the Musk Plant {Mimiilus moschatus, Douglas), a little 

 traveler from the Pacific Coast. Its comely yellow corolla smiled up 

 from a tangle of taller plants that crowded about a spring in a bank 

 by the roadside. The little wayfarer seemed to be thoroughly at 

 home in its narrow quarters in the very course of the trickling water. 

 The slender viscid stems bore only a few fiowers. As I picked one 



