90 Rhodora [May 
three of them having been collected, namely, M. inodora L., M. 
Chamomilla L., and M. suaveolens (Pursh) Buchenau. The Artemi- 
sias are also well represented, six having been collected as follows: 
A. Dracunculus L., A. annua L., A. biennis Willd., A. frigida Willd., 
A. campestris L., var. pubescens (Jord. & Fourr.) Rouy & Foucaud, 
also A. Absinthium L., the last being the only member of the genus 
that is established and thriving. 
For the past two years many plants in a portion of this place have 
been killed by the fumes of an acid factory while those that survive 
are badly seared and burned by the deadly gases. 
WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT. 
CASTANEA PUMILA IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.— I am surprised 
to hear from Prof. Fernald that there is apparently no published record 
of the occurrence of Castanea pumila (L.) Mill. in the Stony Brook 
Metropolitan Reservation in Boston. Two clumps of this southern 
dwarf chestnut have been known there for at least fifteen years. 
I have forgotten to whom belongs the credit of first discovery, but 
I am inclined to think the station was first found by Prof. John G. 
Jack of the Arnold Arboretum, who accompanied a party of botanists 
bent on collecting this plant, so rare in our neighborhood, on June 
26th, 1897. We found the two clumps some two hundred feet apart 
from each other, and in fine flower at that time. They were growing 
a few feet from a rough cart road on a dry, sandy hillside, among 
dwarf oaks. On October 2nd, 1898, I secured some fine fruiting speci- 
mens. I have not visited the station since 1904, at which time it 
was still thriving. How this Castanea got started in this spot is a 
mystery. It is very seldom cultivated, and none of it was known to 
exist in the neighborhood at the time we first saw it. The place where 
it is growing, moreover, was remote from habitations and gardens, and 
seldom visited prior to the establishment of the Stony Brook Reserva- 
tion in the late nineties, except by small boys in pursuit of mud 
turtles and pickerel in the pond near by.— E. F. WriLLrams, Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts. 
WINTER MEETING, JOSSELYN BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF MAINE.— 
About thirty people interested in Maine plants attended the Josselyn 
Society meeting held in Portland, at the rooms of the Portland Society 
