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40 Rhodora [MARCH 
The plant though very distinct from any American species, is yet 
more nearly allied to our V. sagittata and V. cucullata than to any 
species of Europe ог of Western America, — another instance of the 
close relationship, pointed out by Dr. Gray, between the Flora of 
northeastern Asia and that of northeastern America. V. chinensis 
has a long, stout, somewhat branching root, and seems well prepared 
to withstand drought, or the hot sun of open fields. ‘The flower is 
lilac-purple; the spur 7 mm. long, rounded at the end, much com- 
pressed laterally, being 4 mm. wide but only 1.5 mm. thick. "Phe 
numerous cleistogamous capsules are ovoid, green, on erect peduncles. 
Most of the stations named are populous cities of Japan or Eastern 
China; from which we may surmise that the species is more or less 
domesticated, and thrives in cultivated ground in the Orient, as it 
certainly does with us. 
MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT. 
SPHAGNUM FAXONII; AN ADDITION ТО 'THE 
FLORA OF NEW ENGLAND. 
CARL WARNSTORF. 
SINCE my friend the late Edwin Faxon was one of the original mem- 
bers of the New England Botanical Club, it seems fitting that the 
Sphagnum which I have recently named in his memory should be 
. brought to the attention of his old associates by publishing in Кно- 
DORA a translation of the original description.! I wish to say, by way 
of preface, that Mr. Faxon, an indomitable collector of Sphagna, sent 
me for investigation during the nineties thousands of specimens from 
New England, all prepared with the most pains-taking care. To 
many others than myself “Sphagna Boreali-Americana Exsiccata," 
an extremely noteworthy collection of one hundred seventy-two repre- 
sentative specimens of American peat mosses issued by Faxon in col- 
laboration with Professor D. C. Eaton, stands as testimonial to his 
persevering and accurate work as a collector. Faxon was preémi- 
1 Neue europüische und aussereuropäische Torfmoose. Hedwigia XLVII. p. 117 
(1908). 
