78 Rhodora [APRIL 
August, 1877); West Quincy (J. R. Churchill, July 11, 1891). The 
above specimens seem to show traces of Carex retrorsa Schwein., but, 
as that species is unknown in this vicinity, it is not safe to pronounce 
upon the hybrid. 
C. lurida Wahlenb. Wet places, very common throughout. 
C. maritima O. F. Mueller. Brackish shores and salt-marshes, 
rare; Newburyport, Salem, Medford, Arlington, Cambridge. 
C. mirabilis Dewey. Fields and open woods; well distributed in 
northern two thirds of district, but not reported elsewhere. 
C. mirabilis Dewey, var. perlonga Fernald. Wilmington, Revere, 
Stoneham, Boston, Cambridge, Waltham, Norfolk. 
C. Muhlenbergii Schkuhr. Dry sterile soil, common. 
C. Muhlenbergii Schkuhr, var. enervis Boott. Malden, West 
Roxbury, Dover, Wellesley, Framingham, Milton. 
C. MURICATA L. Dry fields and roadsides; abundant near Boston 
and Salem, also at West Newbury, Wayland and Holbrook. 
C. novae-angliae Schwein. Moist open woods, rare; Billerica 
(C. W. Jenks & C. W. Swan, July 18, 1890); Purgatory Swamp;! 
Norwood (Wm. Boott, July 10, 1861; C. H. Knowlton, May 18, 1910); 
Blue Hills, Milton (Wm. Boott, June 3, 1870; G. G. Kennedy, June 15, 
1899). 
C. H. KuowrroN | Committee 
J. A. CUSHMAN on 
WALTER DEANE Local Flora. 
Two Loca. FrLona4s.— We have received two local floras which are 
of special interest to New England botanists. Mrs. Flynn’s Flora 
of Burlington and Vicinity? is a list of the vascular plants growing 
without cultivation about Burlington, Vermont. The flora is a large 
one, 1240 species, and to those who know only the upland country 
of Vermont a particularly interesting one from the large number of 
1 Purgatory Swamp has been located by various collectors in Dedham, Westwood 
and Norwood. The committee has located it in Norwood, until Raopora XIII, 
233-4, when by some misunderstanding it was accredited to Westwood. To settle 
the point once and for all, the town authorities of Norwood were consulted, and it 
was found that the property paid taxes in Norwood. Everett Street, which runs 
from Ellis Station to the Neponset River and on to Canton Corner, is in general the 
line between Westwood and Norwood. Small portions of Westwood lie south or 
this street, but the rich woods, the spring, brook, and swamp, are in Norwood. 
? Flora of Burlington and Vicinity. A list of the Fern and Seed Plants growing 
without Cultivation, by Nellie F, Flynn (Contributions to the Botany of Vermont, 
IX). Burlington, Vt. 1911. Svo. 124 pp. 
