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chusetts, one bush of Clethra alnifolia with pink petals. It was grow- 
ing in company with a dozen or more bushes of the same species which 
had the ordinary white petals. Every year since it was first observed 
the pink-flowered individual has blossomed true to its color. Some 
seasons it has been badly killed back by the winter; but in all cases 
shoots from the root have exhibited the pink petals when they have 
flowered. Finding in the botanical works accessible to me no mention 
of a pink-flowered variety of this species I sent specimens to the Gray 
Herbarium where further literature was consulted but no reference 
to this variation of color was found. As most, if not all, works on our 
flora, which mention Clethra, state that its flowers are white, it seems 
worth while to put on record this attractive exception.— LOUISE 
Hotmes Hanpy, Fall River, Massachusetts. 
THE BULLETIN OF THE JOSSELYN BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF MAINE.— 
At the thirteenth annual meeting of the Josselyn Society, held at 
Oxford, Maine, from the 2nd to the 5th of July, the committee on 
publications reported as follows: ‘Recommended, that the Society 
issue a sheet called the Bulletin of the Josselyn Botanical Society of 
Maine; that the frequency of its issue be determined by the publica- 
tion committee; that the publication contain an abstract of the minutes 
of the Society, with a list of the plants collected or identified at the 
meeting, and such other matter of interest as the committee shall 
determine.” After due consideration this recommendation was 
adopted and as a result the first number of the Bulletin has been pre- 
pared and issued by Dr. Dana W. Fellows and Messrs. Clarence H. 
Knowlton and Edward B. Chamberlain, who constitute the present 
publication committee of the society. The paper is a twenty-four 
page octavo, prepared with evident care and including, besides de- 
tailed reports of the proceedings of the society during its thirteenth 
meeting, a list compiled by Mr. Chamberlain of the flowering plants 
and pteridophytes collected or observed by the society during its 
excursions in the towns of Oxford, Otisfield, and Norway, Maine. 
Copies of the Bulletin, at ten cents each, can be obtained of Mr. 
Edward B. Chamberlain, Cumberland Center, Maine. 
Vol. 9, No, 104, including pages 125-148 was issued 31 August, 1907. 
