76 Rhodora [APRIL 
Myosoris COLLINA IN MAINE. — Reading the article on Myosotis 
collina in the January number of RHODORA recalls to my mind the fact 
that I collected it in June, 1897, at Drake's Island, York County, 
Maine, where I found it growing in abundance on the dyked marsh. 
It confined itself to the side of a deep ditch, spreading for a distance 
of several feet (an area of 6 feet is a moderate statement). It seemed 
to flourish equally well on the dry bank and in the water-bed of the 
ditch. Standing as thickly set as it is possible for plants to grow, and 
being then in full flower, it presented a very attractive appearance. 
Many of the flowers were pure white. — Kare Fursisu, Brunswick, 
Maine. 
PANICUM BARBULATUM IN MassacHuUsETTS. — Mr. Fernald has called 
my attention to the fact that Panicum barbulatum Michx., which He 
finds in my Herbarium from Milton, Mass., Aug. 23, 1894, has not 
before been recorded in Massachusetts. — GEORGE G. KENNEDY. 
PHLOX PILOSA IN CONNECTICUT. — Early in June, 1897, Miss San- 
ford of Oxford mentioned to me a flower found by herself and friends 
in a drive through Southbury, Connecticut, which made a mass of color 
visible from some distance. I at once suggested that it might be the 
sand-pink, Silene Pennsylvanica, Michx.; but she said, “No, I thought 
it looked more like a phlox." On seeing specimens I saw that she was 
right and the plant proved to be Phlox pilosa, L. A few days later I 
visited the locality and found it growing in abundance on both sides of 
the railway about one and a half miles west of the station at Southbury. 
It was scattered over several acres about half a mile from the nearest 
house and, although on the line of the railway, it appears to have been 
established there before the railway was built and to be truly indigenous. 
It may be worthy of note that this locality is situated within the 
limits of the Southbury sandstone formation, a small isolated patch of 
a few square miles of the Connecticut River sandstone with its trap 
ridges, and thus is in a geological formation similar to that in much of 
New Jersey, which is the nearest locality of which I find previous 
record. — E. B. HARGER. 
Vol. 1, No. 3, including pages 41 to 58 and plate 3, was issued March 2, 1899. 
