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which is nowhere, not even here, described in print. This strikingly 
characteristic achene years ago led some of us to think that our speci- 
mens of this Carex must belong to a new species because such an 
achene was nowhere described, but examination of specimens of C. 
Tuckermanii revealed the fact that this queer achene was characteristic 
of that species. 
There are 1036 figures in all, and each is a work of both science and 
art. 
WASHINGTON, D. С. 
HEDEOMA HISPIDA IN CoxNNECTICUT.— During the recent meeting 
of the Connecticut Botanical Society at Putnam, Connecticut, I was 
fortunate enough to discover a quantity of Hedeoma hispida Pursh. 
growing near the Quinebaug River. Although the individual plants 
were mostly small (5-10 сш. tall), they could be gathered by the 
handful over an area of an acre or more. The station is in open 
ground and the soil is a sandy alluvium on the flood-plain of the river, 
thus offering conditions in some measure similar to those in the native 
habitat of the plant on the western plains. The woolen mills of the 
town suggest themselves as the means of its introduction. ‘This seems 
to be the first record of the species in Connecticut but Mr. W. W. 
Eggleston has reported its occurrence in Vermont (RHopoRA 6:142) 
and Mr. C. A. Weatherby informs me that there is in the herbarium 
of the New England Botanical Club a specimen of the same plant 
collected at Reading, Massachusetts, in 1887 by W. H. Manning and 
described by him as “а weed in gardens." — E. B. HARGER, Oxford, 
Connecticut. 
Vol. 10, no. 118, including pages 173 to 196, was issued 9 November, 1908. 
