204 Rhodora [NovEMBER 
In October of the present year, 1908, the status was as follows. 
In my small preserve five stems were alive — they had produced 
an abundance of flowers during the summer, but no fruit had set. 
Everything outside the protected part had been cut down to make way 
for improvements. This included but two or three living plants. 
The future is I think very uncertain as the bark of the five survivors 
has been so roughly handled that they may not long survive. How- 
ever they have lived already for forty-three years under the most 
disadvantageous conditions and I trust that I shall yet see the old 
veterans with their many scars for some years longer. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
NOTES FROM MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.— Some years ago 
the writer received from a friend in Andover, N. H., a few specimens of 
Subularia aquatica L. These were placed as rarities in the herbarium 
of our local Institute. In 1906, while hunting for shore plants at 
Lake Massabesic, a sheet of water 2500 acres in extent, which sup- 
plies the city of Manchester, there were found a few plants of this very 
local crucifer which had been driven by the south wind upon Sever- 
ance’s beach, a long stretch of fine white “scouring sand” on the north 
shore, in the town of Auburn. In October, 1907, the lake being 
unusually low, more of the bottom was exposed, and the plants were 
found in great abundance. This year (1908) the extraordinary 
drought has reduced the level still more, the surface being 2 ft. below 
the dam at the outlet, and about 5 ft. below the level of the lake when 
full, so that a much larger area of sand is exposed. ‘There was found 
(Oct. 8) to be an almost continuous belt of the plants, from 2 ft. to 
2 rods wide, the greater part immersed, extending a distance of not 
less than 1500 ft. A square foot of sand, measured off where the plants 
were sown thickest, contained, by actual count, more than 100 plants. 
There is evidently no immediate danger of the species being extermi- 
nated at this station. 
The following extensions of the known range of certain species may 
be of interest. Specimens of all the plants named have been sent to: 
the Gray Herbarium. In 1906 Eleocharis diandra C. Wright was 
found on the sandy shore of Merrimack River. When the station 
was revisited this season there were also found Scirpus americanus 
Pers. and S. debilis Pursh. In the same locality with the Subularia 
