94 Rhodora [May 
May 12, 1877 and find that a party consisting of Dr. Chickering, Mr. 
Morong and myself landed at Fortress Monroe early that morning, 
botanized around there in the forenoon, and walked to Hampton in 
the afternoon, collecting on the way. ‘The plants not growing in the 
vicinity of Washington are enumerated, but Crataegus is not among 
them. After naming three species of Ranunculus collected between 
Fortress Monroe and Hampton the note-book reads ‘together with 
some plants known to grow about Washington, but which seemed to 
exhibit peculiar forms.’ I presume that the Crataegus was among 
these latter. It incidentally notes that ‘Dr. Chickering staid all night 
with a minister in Chesapeake City, who brought our things from Ft. 
Monroe, and Mr. Morong and | came on to Hampton and took rooms 
at the hotel. This is the only mention of Chesapeake City, and 
I 4m wondering whether I did not mean Elizabeth City. Why I 
should have said ‘Md.’ instead of ‘Va.’ is beyond my comprehension." 
I then wrote Dr. J. W. Chickering. He says this: — '' Please excuse 
my delay, but I wanted to look over my herbarium and see if any of 
my specimens of that collection were from anywhere north of the vicin- 
ity of Hampton. I find so far as I can see, that all that collection was 
made between Hampton and Dismal Swamp and nothing north of that 
region." 
I have since examined Dr. Chickering's herbarium, at Gallaudet 
College, Washington, D. C., and did not find the Crataegus. Elizabeth 
City is probably but a few miles south of Clayton's station, but in the 
same general region. Mr. Alfred Rehder, of the Arnold Arboretum, 
found Crataegus viridis on the Blackwater River near Zuni, Va., in 
1908. 
I have no doubt that the species will be found more common than 
supposed, in the low lands along streams in eastern Virginia, as it 
occurs in northern North Carolina in similar situations. My own 
No. 4007 from Finchley, Va., Aug. 1908, may prove to be a young 
shoot of this species. 
New York BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
