92 Rhodora [May 
ALCHEMILLA PRATENSIS FOUND AT WESTFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.— 
Some months ago I noticed a plant at Westford, Massachusetts, which 
I identified as an Alchemilla. To be quite sure of the determination 
I sent a specimen to the Gray Herbarium, but even there a positive 
specific identification could not be made until some identical specimens 
from Nova Scotia had been forwarded to Dr. Buser, of Geneva, a well 
known specialist on the genus. Dr. Buser pronounced the plant 
A. pratensis F. W. Schmidt. I am informed that this European 
species has become well established and abundant in several parts of 
Nova Scotia, but seems not to have been noticed in New England. It 
is therefore suggested that its occurrence at Westford, however casual, 
is of sufficient interest to be recorded in order that botanical collectors 
may be on the outlook for other New England stations. The species 
was found in a neighbor's back yard, where chickens were kept, and 
the most natural supposition is that the seed was introduced with 
chicken-feed. There were in all five individuals, one large and the 
others apparently recent seedlings from it. Although the flowers are 
small and inconspicuous the species is an attractive one, and in our 
flora it will be pretty easily recognized by its orbicular deeply cordate 
and shallowly 7-9-lobed leaves.— EmiLy F. FLETCHER, Westford, 
Massachusetts. 
Vol. 9, no. 100, including pages 65 to 76 was issued 30 A pril, 1907, 
