246 Rhodora [DECEMBER 
1794 "from America and Newfoundland." The basis for Goode- 
nough's statement was long a mystery and we find the great Francis 
Boott, just before his death, still impressed with the fact, that “It 
is remarkable that Goodenough originally received C. fulva from 
America, and that the late Mr. B. D. Greene found it some years ago 
near Boston, and that no one has since met with it there or elsewhere 
in the States." ! The occurrence of the plant in Newfoundland is 
now clearly demonstrated, and besides from there and the problematie 
station of B. D. Greene near Boston we know the plant also from bogs 
or boggy spots on Anticosti and Miquelon, but nowhere on the North 
American continent. That it has been found elsewhere there can be 
little question, since Goodenough's report of it from Newfoundland 
is now verified and he had also seen the plant “from America.” 
In the hope of determining with more exactness the stations where 
Greene had found his famous specimens the writer appealed to Dr. 
N. L. Britton, and in reply to these inquiries Mr. Mackenzie has 
kindly sent a full statement of the data found on the original sheets 
in the Torrey Herbarium; but unfortunately neither of the sheets 
indicates anything but “Boston B. D. Greene.” Among Greene's 
own specimens at the Boston Society of Natural History Dr. J. A. 
Cushman has made a painstaking search and finds only one sheet: 
nothing to show for C. helodes, but a most important sheet of C. 
Hornschuchiana, var. laurentiana. This bears a small label through 
which the specimen is thrust, with the following in different inks but 
apparently all in Greene’s hand: “C. fulva. B. D. Greene [followed 
by a space where a word is now torn out] but not limosa growing 
with it in pond at Tewks? ?” and in pencil after the last word (hand 
unidentified): "certé." The sheet bears also two papers with notes 
by Francis Boott and the penciled note of Dr. C. W. Swan: “The 
original specimen found by B. D. Greene at Tewksbury, Mass.” 
Boott’s comments are interesting though of no importance in settling 
the exact station: “These 3 plants I part with as a miser does gold 
entrusted to him. The Georgia one I suppose to be C. Floridana.... 
C. fulva & C. laevigata we owe to you € it behoves you to find them 
again. I take them to be C. Greeniana & binervis of Torrey [by 
which he obviously meant Dewey].” 
The statement on Greene’s label, that the plant grew with Carex 
1 Boott, Ill. Car. iv. 138 (1867). 
