1905] Churchill, — Lists of New England Plants, — XVII 35 
NOTES ON THE ABOVE LIST. 
Antirrhinum majus, L., common in gardens, is mentioned in some 
local catalogues (Berzelius Catalogue of Connecticut Plants; Robin- 
son, Flora of Essex County, Massachusetts) as an escape, but doubt- 
fully established. I have not found it in any of the herbaria of 
New England. 
The reports of Castilleia coccinea, Spreng., and of typical Gerardia 
purpurea, L., in the Portland Catalogue of Maine Plants, and in 
Harris’s Flora of Windham, New Hampshire, appear to be without 
foundation. 
For a revision of our Euphrasias, with an account of their stations 
and ranges, reference may be had to RHODORA, iii, 270. 
Gerardia Skinneriana, Wood, which is frequent on the southern 
coast of Massachusetts and Connecticut, is very likely to be found 
along the intervening shore of Rhode Island. 
In determining, with reference to the New England states, the 
occurrence and range of //ysanthes, I was at first disposed to accept 
the conclusions of Dr. John K. Small (Torr. Bull., XXIII, p. 296: 
Aug., 1896) so far as they apply.to our New England plant, and to 
accord specific rank to his Z. attenuata (Lindernia attenuata, Muhl.). 
Besides less conspicuous characters wherein this form is claimed 
to differ from Z. riparia, Raf. (Z. grativloides, Benth.) there is the 
shortness of the pedicels relative to the length of the leaves. This 
extreme disparity in the length of the pedicels compared with the 
leaves, which was frequently concomitant with a habit “stouter and 
lax,” or more procumbent in the one than in the other form, enabled 
me without much difficulty to deal with a limited number of New Eng- 
land specimens, which ranged themselves fairly well respectively 
under the desired names. 
It, however, early became apparent that the length of the sepals 
relative to that of the capsule, a distinction upon which stress is laid, 
was of little or no value as a diagnostic character; and as specimens 
from New England were encountered which combined, in one collec- 
tion or in a single plant, pedicels both longer and shorter than leaves, 
doubts arose, and recourse was had to a careful examination of the 
abundant material in the Gray Herbarium from all parts of the coun- 
try, from Canada and from Mexico, of the sheets in the herbarium of 
the New England Botanical Club and in my own and other herbaria. 
