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ciliate at base."; Darlington’s Flora Cestrica, 273 (1837), “Stem... . 
smoothish. ...a portion of the internodes of the stem and branches at 
length coated with a dark purple viscid matter’; Gray’s Manual, 
ed. 1, 59 (1848), “ Nearly smooth... .some of the upper joints viscid.”, 
ed. 4, 56 (1866), * Glabrous throughout; a portion of each joint of 
the stem mostly glutinous."; Wood's Class-Book of Botany, 256 
(1877), “ Nearly smooth. . .. A few of the upper internodes are viscidly 
pubescent above their middle"; Chapman's Flora of the Southern 
United States, 52 (1884), “smoothish, clammy below the upper joints.” ; 
Britton and Brown's Illustrated Flora of the United States and Canada, 
ii. 11 (1897) and Britton’s Manual of the Flora of the Northern States 
and Canada, 390 (1901), “puberulent or glabrous, glutinous about 
the nodes." ‘These are a few instances in many that I examined 
where the facts relating to the pubescence and glutinous character are 
either not adequately g* en or are stated without proper qualifications. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS oF Connecticut.— In January, 
1903, the numerous botanical workers in Connecticut became organ- 
ized as the Connecticut Botanical Society. Since that date the Society 
has maintained an enthusiasm and a standard of investigation and 
productiveness which it is inspiring to witness. During its short 
career the Society has issued, as Bulletins of the State Geological and 
Natural Historv Survey, Professor White's Hymeniales of Connecticut, 
Dr. Clinton's Ustilagineae, or Smuts, of Connecticut, Conn and Web- 
ster's Algae of the Fresh Waters of Connecticut, Evans and Nichols's 
Bryophytes of Connecticut; and now we have the Catalogue of the 
Flowering Plants and Ferns of Connecticut.' 
The State and the Society as well as botanists throughout the coun- 
try are particularly to be congratulated upon the efficient group of 
men to whom the work was entrusted, for it would be difficult to find 
in any community a committee of six men who combine so admirably 
scholarly ideals and attainments with intimate field knowledge of the 
flora. It is interesting to note that all the members of the committee 
are amateurs to whom the work has been strictly a labor of love. 
'The Catalogue consists of 569 pages, the first 16 occupied by in- 
troductory matter of much interest, the last 105 by an exhaustive index. 
1 Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Connecticut growing without Culti- 
vation. By C. B. Graves, E. H. Eames, C. H. Bissell, L. Andrews, E. B. Harger, and 
C. A. Weatherby, Committee of the Connecticut Botanical Society. Hartford, 1910 
(Bulletin no. 14, Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey.) 
