1905] Howe, Lotus tenuis in Rhode Island 167 
northwestern material which is passing as S. mollis, Nutt., seems 
inseparable from S. racemosa. 
Var. laevigatus. Often taller: /eaves glabrous beneath. — Sym- 
phoria racemosa, Loddiges, Bot. Cab. iii. no. 230 (1818); Sims, Bot. 
Mag. xlviii. t. 2211 (1821). Symphoricarpos racemosus, most authors, 
not Michaux. — Saguenay County, Quebec to Washington, locally 
south in the mountains to Virginia. Freely cultivated and commonly 
escaped to roadsides, etc. 
Var. PAUCIFLORUS, Robbins. Dwarf shrub: leaves more or less 
pubescent and strongly whitened beneath.— Robbins in Gray, Man. 
ed. 5, 203 (1867), as to Lake Superior and Winnipeg (“northwest- 
ward") plant. S. pauciflorus, Britton, Mem. Torr. Cl. v. 305 (1894), 
in part.— Lake Superior to Lake Winnipeg, and locally in the moun- 
tains from Alberta to Oregon and Colorado. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
THE ONTARIO NATURAL SCIENCE BULLETIN is the journal of the 
Wellington Field Naturalist’s Club, the first number of which was 
issued at Guelph, Ontario, April rsth. The Bulletin is edited by A. 
B. Klugh, a guarantee that its future numbers will follow the first in 
containing many items of interest to the northeastern botanist. 
Lotus TENUIS AS A Warr IN RHODE IsLAND.— On July 3, 1905, 
in a wet meadow near the railroad track as it enters Newport, Rhode 
Island, I found a small colony of Zotus tenuis, Waldst. & Kit. The 
meadow is quite on the outskirts of the town, with no gardens near 
at hand from which the plant could have escaped. The species is a 
native of Europe and was in full bloom. There were two patches, 
one growing in the meadow and the other by a cartroad, some twenty- 
five feet away. On July 25th I found a single plant of the same kind 
in the next meadow, across the road and to the northeast of the 
others, where possibly a seed had been carried by the prevailing 
southwest summer wind. By August 3rd no more flowers were to be 
found, but the plants were covered with pods. Specimens of this 
interesting plant have been deposited in the herbaria of Mr. Walter 
Deane, Mrs. George S. Parker, and the writer. It may be worth 
while to record also the finding of Lycium vulgare, Dunal, the Matri- 
