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before it was distinguished by S. P. Gmelin as Limnanthemum (1770), 
and this name must accordingly be used for our Floating Hearts. 
The larger of our northeastern species should be called 
NYMPHOIDES aquaticum (Walt), n. comb. Anonymos aquatica 
Walt. Fl. Carol. 109 (1788). Limnanthemum trachyspermum Gray, 
Man. ed. 5, 390 (1867). Limnanthemum aquaticum Britton, Trans. 
N. Y. Acad. Sci. ix. 12 (1889). 
APOCYNUM CANNABINUM L., var. nemorale (С. S. Miller), n. comb. 
A. nemorale С. S. Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. xiii. 87 (1899).— 
With the small greenish or greenish-white flowers of A. cannabinum, 
but with the leaves mostly drooping or spreading on elongate petioles 
1-1.5 em. long. 
CONVOLVULUS SEPIUM L., var. pubescens (Gray), n. comb. С. 
repens L. Sp. 158 (1753) as to Gronovian plant. C. sepium, var. 
repens Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. pt. 1. 215 (i878). Calystegia sepium (L.) 
R. Br., var. pubescens Gray, Man., ed. 5, 376 (1867).— 'This pretty 
plant, abundant on the coast from the Gulf of St. Lawrence south- 
ward, is commonly pubescent, but not infrequently essentially glabrous, 
when it is separable from true C. sepium only by the less hastate basal 
lobes of the leaves, a character too inconstant to allow the specific 
separation of the two plants. 
Мүовотів VIRGINICA (L.) В S P., var. macrosperma (Engelm), 
n.comb. M. macrosperma Engelm., Am. Jour. Sci., xlvi. 98 (1844). 
M. verna Nutt., var. macrosperma Chapm. Fl. 333 (1860). 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
(То be continued.) . 
THE 13TH ANNUAL WINTER MEETING OF THE VERMONT BOTANICAL 
Crus was held at the University of Vermont, Burlington, January 17 
and 18. Nineteen new members were elected and the longest program 
in the history of the Club, with 23 titles, was carried out. The annual 
supper complimentary to visiting members was held on the evening of 
the 17th, followed by a very interesting lecture on “The Flora of the 
Shickshock Mts. and the Gaspé Coast” by Prof. M. L. Fernald of 
Harvard University, illustrated by lantern slides. John Ritchie Jr. 
gave a talk on Mt. Washington, where the Club intends to go the first 
week of July next. This was also illustrated by the lantern. The 
