72 Rhodora [APRIL 
in Camden, Maine, as recorded in Кнорока (9:74), and in East 
Hartford, Connecticut, by Mr. C. A. Weatherby. A cross should be 
inserted in both the columns indicated. 
Pogonatum alpinum var. arcticum (Sw.) Brid. In June, 1906, 
Professor Fernald and the writer made a brief visit to Salisbury, 
Connecticut, where, in Sage’s Ravine, a few sterile specimens of this 
moss were collected, but they were not determined until later in the 
year, after the printed list appeared. According to government maps 
of this ravine the specimens undoubtedly grew in Connecticut, though 
only a few rods from the Massachusetts boundary. 
Polytrichum commune var. perigoniale (Mx.) Bry. Eur. Speci- 
mens of this variety, collected in Vermont, are in the herbarium of 
Dr. Abel J. Grout, this state being the only one from which it had 
not been seen at the time the list was published. 
Polytrichum gracile Dicks. was recorded from the Rangeley Lakes, 
Maine, in RHopona (9:64) by Mrs. E. M. Dunham. As there 
stated the specimens examined by the writer were not quite typical. 
A cross (+) should be used in recording the last three mosses.— J. 
FRANKLIN Сотллхвя, Providence, Rhode Island. 
EUCLIDIUM SYRIACUM IN MassACHUSETTS.— On June 23, 1907, 
while collecting in Dedham, Mass., I came across ап abandoned 
henyard. Here, with Erysimum cheiranthoides L. and Lepidium 
apetalum Willd., grew one specimen of a peculiar plant which I did 
not recognize as a crucifer. With the assistance of Dr. B. L. Robin- 
son I have identified the plant as Euclidium syriacum, R. Br., a field 
plant ranging from lower Austria and Russia to Persia, Baluchistan 
and Cashmere. The following description may lead to further reports 
of this waif, which so far as I know has never been reported in this 
country before. ‘The specimen I have given to the Gray Herbarium. 
Branching, hairy, З dm. tall; leaves 2.5-3 cm. long, alternate, rough, 
with small distant denticulations; flowers inconspicuous, yellow 
scattered on naked tips of branches; fruit densely rough-pubescent, 
2-4 mm. long, with an abruptly reflexed beak of nearly the same 
length; seeds few.— C. Н. Knowtron, Boston, Mass. 
Vol. 10, по. 110, including pages 21-86, was issued 4 April, 1908. 
