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herbarium at Yale University there is a specimen of J. brachycarpus 
collected by Dr. Swan in “ West Boston,” May 15, 1884, and a sheet 
of J. effusus, var. decipiens collected by Dr. Swan at East Gloucester.— 
M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
LINUM CATHARTICUM IN MaiNE.— As I was lately revising my 
specimens of the genus Linum in my herbarium, I was surprised and 
pleased to come across a sheet of four fruiting specimens of the 
European Fairy Flax, Linum catharticum L., from “The Basin,” 
Vinalhaven, Maine, collected by Mr. William W. Dodge, September 1, 
1894. This is the first record for New England, but the Fairy Flax 
has been found at three stations in British America. Prof. John 
Macoun has reported it (Cat. Can. Pl., i. 501, 1886) “on waste ground 
along the seashore at Pictou, N. S.” and Prof. M. L. Fernald has 
discussed and recorded it (RHopoRA, v. 119, 1903) from Sydney, 
Cape Breton, and also (Ruopora, xiii. 116, 1911) as growing along 
the railway at Birchy Cove on the western coast of Newfoundland. 
Vinalhaven is an island at the mouth of Penobscot Bay and is 300 
miles in a straight line from Pictou, the nearest recorded station for 
the species. Doubtless the plant occurs at other stations along the 
coast.— WALTER DEANE, Cambridge, Massachusetts. : 
ASTRAGALUS CONTORTUPLICATUS ON WooL-wasTE.— In June, 1911, 
on the J. V. Fletcher farm in Westford, Massachusetts, where wool- 
waste is used as a fertlizier, I found growing with Thlaspi arvense, 
Sisymbrium Sophia, and Dracocephalum thymiflorum (see Rnopona, 
xii. 212) one plant of a Milk Vetch, which with the help of the Gray 
Herbarium has been named as: “ Astragalus contortuplicatus, a native 
of eastern Europe, Siberia and Northern India. No American record 
is found of this species."— Emity F. FLETCHER, Westford, Massachu- 
setts. 
Vol. 14, no. 158, including pages 25 to 40, was issued 1 February, 1912. 
