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Viola sororia (21). Vaccinium atrococeum (21). 
* septentrionalis (21). Phlox subulata (30). 
*  fimbriatula (before the 17th). Trientalis americana (29 or 30). 
“ sagittata (21). Myosotis virginica (17-23). 
" lanceolata (30). Veronica serpyllifolia (17-23). 
* pallens (9). d arvensis (17-23). 
" rotundifolia (passing, 23). Houstonia caerulea (2). 
“ scabriuscula (21). Lonicera caerulea, var. villosa (24). 
“ conspersa (19, with some flow- t canadensis (23). 
ers faded, sheltered meadow at Viburnum alnifolium (23). 
edge of woods). Antennaria Parlinii (29 or 30, sunny 
Panax trifolia (23). brook-bank). 
Cornus florida (in full bloom, May 1). Antennaria canadensis (21). 
Rhododendron canadense (30). < plantaginifolia (21). 
Andromeda glaucophylla (29 or 30). u neodioica (21). 
Chamaedaphne calyculata (9, in a i negleeta (17). 
warm open meadow). Tussilago Farfara (2). 
Epigaea repens (23, flowers fading). Petasites vulgaris (2). 
Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi (13, sunny Taraxacum officinale (15). 
hill-top). i. " var. palustre (21). 
Vaccinium pennsylvanicum (21). B ervthrospermum | (21). 
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corymbosum (29 or 30). 
SOME FACTS RELATING TO SILENE ANTIRRHINA. 
WALTER DEANE. 
WuiLE studying recently some specimens of the Sleepy Catchfly, 
Silene untirrhina L., from Oak Island, Revere, Massachusetts, col- 
lected by Mr. C. F. Batchelder on June 11, 1909, I was struck by the 
fact that of the twelve plants examined five had the joints of the stems 
entirely free from the glutinous bands that I had always supposed 
were present, while all the plants were scabrous or pubescent at the 
base. A reference to the 7th edition of Gray’s Manual showed that 
the species comes under the section, “Glabrous, a portion of each 
joint of the stem glutinous.” This started me to examine the speci- 
mens of the species that were readily available. Besides those in my 
own herbarium and the herbaria of Dr. G. G. Kennedy and Judge 
J. R. Churchill, I studied those in the Gray Herbarium, including 
56 sheets of this species, and those in the herbarium of the New 
