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field that had not many years before been cultivated that we found an 
abundance of Gnaphalium decurrens, also more Lecheas. At last we 
were at the causeway again, and we made our way toward the station, 
stopping for a bite at the little lunch room that must find scant patron- 
age so late in the season. The twilight shadows were falling as we 
took the train for home, tired, dusty, with full collecting boxes, after 
a day with the fields, the woods, the water, the sun and the sky. 
A tiresome and a useless day some might say, but to the friend of 
the great out-of-doors, one of the days looked forward to with antici- 
pation, looked back upon with pleasure, and that go to make up a 
part in one of the durable satisfactions of life. | 
SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT. 
A Scirpus New to New Hampsutre.— Prof. Fernald has lately 
identified sheet no. 466 in my herbarium as Scirpus rubrotinctus 
var. confertus Fernald, although non-typical. The specimen, col- 
lected by myself in wet sphagnum at Sharon, Hillsboro County, 
New Hampshire, 17 July, 1909, not only adds a new name to the 
New Hampshire list but seems to afford the first New England record 
for the variety outside of Maine. The proximity of Sharon to the 
Massachusetts line suggests that the plant may yet be found in this 
state. — SipneY F. BLAKE, Stoughton, Massachusetts. 
[Scirpus rubrotinctus, var. confertus was collected at Spectacle Pond, 
Wallingford, Vermont, July 30, 1901 (W. W. Eggleston, no. 2527) and in 
Southington, Connecticut, June 26, 1897 (C. H. Bissell). These specimens, 
recently deposited in the Gray Herbarium, indicate that the variety may be 
looked for throughout New England.—Ed.] 
A NECESSARY CHANGE OF NaME.— Mr. C. E. Faxon of the Arnold 
Arboretum has called my attention to the fact that Dr. Focke, the 
well-known German rubiologist, used the word amabilis for the name 
of a rubus a very short time before I used it in 1906 for a plant quite 
abundant in the Kennebunks and North Berwick, Maine. See 
Ruopona VIII, 173 (1906). In Gray's New Manual it is mentioned 
but it is included under Rubus Canadensis L. However, my blackberry 
is not only an elegant and very distinct species differing greatly from 
