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Сінегім MUTICUM Michx., var. subpinnatifidum (Britton), n. 
comb. Carduus muticus, var. subpinnatifidus Britton in Britton & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. iii. 489 (1898). 
Cirsium Hilli (Canby), n. comb. Cnicus Hillii Canby, Gard. & 
For. iv. 101 (1891). Carduus Hillii Porter, Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. v. 
344 (1894). 
PRENANTHES ALTISSIMA L., var. cinnamomea, n. var. pappo 
cinnamomeo.— Pappus cinnamon-color; otherwise like the typical 
form.— Indiana to Missouri and Louisiana. Type collected in rich 
woods, Monteer, Missourt, October 5, 1905 (Bush, по. 3534). 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
Tue ANNUAL BOTANICAL Symposium.— The fifth annual sympo- 
sium will be held at Georgetown, Delaware, July 1-8, 1908. Head- 
quarters will be Hotel Eagle, where rooms may be secured at $1.50 a 
day. Trips will be made to Lewes, Rehoboth, Chesapeake Bay, 
Indian River, ete. Those desiring to attend should inform JOSEPH 
CRAWFORD, 2824 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 
JossELYN BoTaniCaAL SocrETY.— The annual meeting of the 
Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine will be held at Manset, Mount 
Desert Island, August 4th to 8th, 1908. A reduced rate of $2.00 per 
day for board and lodging has been granted by the Stanley House, 
and reduced railroad fares will be arranged. All who propose attend- 
ing should communicate at once with О. W. Кхіснт, Chairman of 
Committee on Arrangements, Bangor, Maine. 
LEMNA MINOR and SPARGANIUM EURYCARPUM IN RIMOUSKI COUNTY, 
QuEBEC.— For several summers Professor J. Е. Collins and the 
writer have visited Bic and the adjacent towns of Rimouski County, 
Quebec, on account of the great development in that region of bold 
limestone headlands and ridges, upon which are found an extensive 
high-northern flora (see RHODORA, ix. 158-172). Bordering the har- 
bor of Bic is a salt marsh, the brackish borders of which likewise sup- 
port a pronouncedly northern flora: Catabrosa aquatica (L.) Beauv., 
Poa eminens J. S. Presl, Scirpus rufus (Huds.) Schrad., Carex norve- 
gica Willd., C. glareosa Wahlenb., Rumex occidentalis Watson, ete. In 
