1905] Churchill, — Lists of New England Plants, — XVII 37 
there by I. Holcomb in June, 1904, the specimens being now in Mr. 
Bissell’s herbarium. 
Mr. Bissell also sent me for examination a specimen of P. tubiflorus 
Nutt, collected by him “in grass land, Salisbury, Conn., July 29, 
1904." Both these species have been determined by Mr. Fernald, 
and occurring thus, far out of their normal range in the South and 
West, illustrate the migratory habits of the genus. 
Rhinanthus. Two of the common European * Yellow-Rattles ” 
are Rhinanthus Crista-Galit, L., the species which is common on our 
Maine coast and local elsewhere in New England; and a larger plant, 
R. major, Ehrh., which has the exserted corolla 13 to 23 cm. in length 
and the bracts yellow at their base instead of green. The nipple-like 
appendages on the upper lip of the corolla of the larger plant are 
colored bright purple and are longer than broad, while these append- 
ages in our smaller plant are broader than long and of yellow color uni- 
form with the rest of the corolla, which rarely exceeds 14 cm. in length. 
In the Synoptical Flora (1878) Dr. Gray says our common Yellow- 
Rattle “varies much in size, but apparently we have no Æ. major, 
Ehrh.", and the plant is not mentioned in any of our more recent 
Manuals. 
It was interesting therefore to discover in the Gray Herbarium a 
sheet of veritable specimens of RAinanthus major, marked “ Rhinan- 
thus Crista-Galli, var. major. In pratis humidis ad Plymouth, Massa- 
chusetts, Legit Oakes.” The label gives no date, but the words quoted 
do not suggest that the plant was at all transient or scarce, nor is the 
plant one in its nature likely to disappear in succeeding seasons. 
The question then arises where was this station, and do these plants 
still persist there? A like query which the writer put, in RHODORA, 
II, 92; April, 1900, as to a long-lost station for Phaseolus perennis, 
was soon answered by our diligent botanists in Connecticut. Let us 
of Boston go and do likewise, and rediscover the Greater Yellow-Rat- 
tle in the dewey meads of Plymouth! 
Verbascum phlomoides, L., seems to persist at its only New Eng, 
land station, Annisquam, Massachusetts, where it was first collected 
by Professor J. H. Robinson in 1894. 
Although but recently observed, Mimulus moschatus, Dougl., seems 
to be a permanent part of the Vermont flora. The writer has found 
it growing abundantly along a wet roadside in Canada near the Ver- 
mont line. It has also been recently reported in Massachusetts. 
