192 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
ago it was an established weed, is of peculiar interest, for throughout 
the longer-settled regions of calcareous sections of Quebec, from the 
city of Quebec to the base of the Gaspé Peninsula, it has maintained 
its weed-character and its slimy foliage and lurid flowers are familiar 
to nearly everyone who takes special note of the vegetation. 
PEDICULARIS LANCEOLATA Michx. is not generally recognized from 
east of the Connecticut. In the Club Herbarium, however, is a 
sheet of P. lanceolata, originally in the collection of the Middlesex 
Institute, labeled: “Revere just over the line [from Middlesex 
County]. Moody.” As far as the writer is informed no one else has 
recently seen this plant in eastern Massachusetts and it is feared that 
its tall stature and rather showy flowers long ago led to its extinction. 
The plant is worthy special note not only as a rare species which is 
now probably extinct but as another member of the peculiarly rich 
and isolated flora (typical from western New England westward) 
for which the town of Revere (including Oak Island)! has been 
famous since the days of Jacob Bigelow, a flora including several 
species unknown or almost unknown elsewhere in eastern Massachu- 
setts: Elymus virginicus, var. submuticus (see above), Amphicarpa 
Pitcheri, Sanicula gregaria, Agastache scrophulariaefolia, Collinsonia 
canadensis, Scrophularia marilandica, Aster salicifolius, &c. 
CAMPANULA ULIGINOSA Rydberg. Many local botanists have ex- 
pressed surprise that this speeies as well as C. aparinoides Pursh, 
is found in our territory. It is in the Club Herbarium from Rock 
Pond, Georgetown and from South Georgetown (Mrs. Horner) and 
in the Gray Herbarium from Concord (J. M. Greenman), Fresh Pond, 
Cambridge (Wm. Boott), and Sharon (S. F. Poole). 
HELIANTHUS MAXIMILIANI Schrad., recently reported from scattered 
eastern stations, was found by Mr. F. S. Collins in a “rather sandy 
field" by Wright's Pond, Middlesex Fells, August 29, 1909. 
GALINSOGA CARACASANA (DC.) Sch. Bip. appeared as a weed in 
the Botanie Garden, Cambridge, in 1909, and is thriving this year, 
the coarse sprawling stems often measuring more than 1 m. in length. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
1 See H. A. Young, Bull. Essex Inst. xiv. 141-157 (1882); Reprint 1—19 (1883). 
W. P. Rich, Ruopona, iv. 57-94 (1902). 
Vol. 12, no. 140, including pages 157 to 172, was issued 15 August, 1910. 
