1899] Baker, — Noteworthy plants at Exeter, Maine 75 
Maine, June 6, 1898 (M. L. Fernald, no. 2344) ; gravelly bank, Orono, 
Maine, June 4, 1898 (JM. L. Fernald, nos. 2342, 2345) ; hillsides, 
Jaffrey, New Hampshire, May 31, 1897 (E. Z. Rand & B. L. Robinson, 
no. 424) ; Willoughby, Vermont, June 1o, 1898 (G. G. Kennedy & 
E. F. Williams). 
NOTEWORTHY PLANTS AT EXETER, MAINE. 
L. H. BAKER. 
A collection made at Exeter, Maine, during the summer of 1898, by 
Miss Florence Grey, contains the following plants of interest, introduc- 
ing one species from Europe, extending the range of two others and 
confirming an old report of a fourth. 
CENTAUREA SCABIOSA L., which seems to be newly introduced from 
the Old World, is quite distinct in its general appearance from the 
species more commonly met with in New England, — C. Cyanus, 
C. nigra and C. Jacea — the involucre being more globose, the color- 
ing of the scales confined to the extreme tips and upper margins 
and the leaves deeply pinnatifid. A more detailed description of the 
species follows : — 
Stem 2?—3?, simple or sparingly branched, striate, scurfy or some- 
what pubescent. Leaves deeply pinnatifid, bearing scattered hairs 
beneath. Heads 114’ to 2’ broad, solitary at the end of the stem or 
branches. Involucre globose, blade of the bracts lanceolate or ovate, 
only the extreme margins and tips colored dark brown or black. Fim- 
briation present on all the bracts, hardly equal to the width of the 
blade. Flowers purple, the outer enlarged and ray-like. Achenes 
pubescent. Pappus of copious, unequal bristles, longer than the 
achene. 
CORONILLA VARIA L., which has previously been reported in Maine 
only at Bucksport (where found by Mrs. A. F. Chase), and which 
proves to have been well established in this station for some twenty 
years. 
POTENTILLA RECTA L., the range of which is extended in Maine 
from the vicinity of Portland. 
GALIUM BOREALE L., which may now be reinstated in the Maine 
lists from which it was recently dropped by reason of there being no 
record of a definite station in the state. 
The section in which Miss Grey's collection was made lies twenty 
miles northwest of Bangor and some six miles from any railway. 
