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In Ruopora XI, 83. 1909, Prof. К. M. Wiegand reports Bromus 
inermis Leys. from Needham, Massachusetts, and also from Ithaca, 
New York. I collected some specimens of this introduced grass from 
a small roadside station near the golf links, at Hyannisport, July 15, 
1905.— C. H. Kxowrrow, Boston. 
AN INTERESTING ADDITION TO THE FLORA or New JEnsEv.— Along 
the eastern shore of Barnegat Bay south of Seaside Park, Ocean Co., 
New Jersey, the usual mud flats are not much in evidence and vegeta- 
tion hugs the tide line very closely. 
Associated with such characteristic plants as Chenopodium album L., 
Atriplex patula L., var. hastata Gray, Polygonum exsertum Small, 
Cyperus esculentus L. and Salsola Kali L. the writer last fall found 
a plant having some of the characters of a Suaeda but with apparent 
differences that were puzzling. Through the courtesy of Prof. M. L. 
Fernald the plant has been identified with a common European species, 
Bassia hirsuta (L.) Aschers. 
It seems to be restricted to a narrow belt along the Bay shore and in 
the late summer and fall assumes a spreading and very much branched 
habit. In this locality the fruit is not ripe until the latter part of 
September when the plants are more or less covered with a mat of 
Zostera marina L. cast up by the combined action of wind and tide.— 
Epwin B. Barrram, Wayne, Pennsylvania. 
AxorHER Моѕнкоом Book.— Mr. M. E. Hard, a school superin- 
tendent. of the middle west, has published ап illustrated book on 
mushrooms, the purchase of which ‘is now being urged upon the 
public of New England. As the work comes among us with much 
heralding and insistent claim to merit, some notice of its probable 
value and serviceableness to amateurs of mushrooms is justifiable in 
this journal. It may be said at once that as a popular book it will 
prove helpful, first because it contains a large number of descriptions 
convenient to have between the covers of one book, and second because 
1The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise— by M. E. Hard, M. A., Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, Kirkwood, Missouri. The Mushroom Publishing Company, Colum- 
bus, Ohio, 1908. Quarto, 609 pages, 505 figures. 
