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southern plant, so that it is not unreasonable to expect that M. 
alterniflorum may yet be found south of its present known limit. 
STACHYS AMBIGUA (Gray) Britton, recently reported by Professor 
Wiegand (Ruopona, xi. 83) for the first time in New England, proves 
to have been collected several times in eastern Massachusetts. The 
Club Herbarium contains the following specimens: Lowell, near the 
Concord River, July 14, 1880 (C. W. Swan); in gravelly soil back from 
Newton Waterworks Basin, Needham, July 18, 1902 (H. A. Purdie); 
meadows, Charles River, Needham, August 26, 1905 (J. R. Churchill); 
boggy meadows, Sharon, July 12, 1896 (W. P. Rich, E. F. Williams). 
These stations and those already cited by Professor Wiegand indicate 
that the plant is somewhat generally distributed in the valleys of the 
Concord, Charles, and Neponset Rivers. 
LYCOPUS EUROPAEUS L. This coarse species has grown in waste 
land and neglected yards about the “Tin Canon" in Cambridge for 
at least sixteen years. The earliest collection was made by Professor 
B. L. Robinson in October, 1894. 
Hyoscyamus NIGER L. The Henbane, which was recorded from 
New England by Josselyn in 1672;! in the days of Manasseh Cutler 
(1785) was “common amongst rubbish, and by road sides"; by 
Jacob Bigelow, in 1814, was included in the Florula Bostoniensis 
from “waste grounds” 3 and in 1840 from “roadsides, &c.," * is now 
one of our rarest plants and it is not improbable that it has entirely 
disappeared from our Massachusetts flora. In the Gray Herbarium 
there are no specimens from south of Maine, where it is very local 
and has a bare foot-hold, but in the Club Herbarium are two speci- 
mens: Boston, July 15, 1880 (C. E. Perkins); Somerville, September 
25, 1886 (F. S. Collins). In the Flora of Essex County, Mr. John 
Robinson cites two old stations only besides an indefinite “Essex 
County” of William Oakes and makes the comment that “ Hyo- 
scyamus niger and Artemisia Absinthium (Wormwood), spoken of 
by Dr. Cutler and other earlier writers as common in waste places, 
are now very rare or unknown." 5 That Hyoscyamus should have 
passed so completely from our flora, when a century and a quarter 
1 Josselyn, N. E. Rarities, 86 (1672); Tuckerman reprint, 114. 
? M. Cutler, Mem. Am. Acad. i. 419 (1785). 
3 Bigelow, Fl. Bost. 52 (1814). 
4 Bigelow, Fl. Bost. ed. 3, 84 (1840). 
5 J. Robinson, Fl. Essex Co. 15 (1880). 
