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has been usurped by Grim the Collier, Hieracium aurantiacum, where 
its tawny flowers make a brave showing annually. 
From this prosperous foreign invasion, one turns with sorrow to 
our two largest broad-leaved evergreens, Ilex opaca and Kalmia 
latifolia, doomed I fear to early extinction. Mountain laurel is found 
in a large swamp near Island Creek and there it flourished unmolested 
until recently, when the ubiquitous cranberry-grower began grubbing 
it out to make a “bog.” The Holly is found in another swamp near- 
by, but every year at Christmas the few fruiting trees are stripped so 
ruthlessly that the outlook for seedlings is very poor. Here, too, the 
* bogger" is at work. 
Pleurisy-root, Asclepias tuberosa, I noted as a single plant growing 
near the road from Tinkertown, while near Tarkiln is a colony of 
Lupinus perennis. The Partridge Pea, Cassia Chamaecrista, grows 
freely in a barren field near the shore and in this field within a few 
rods of salt water I found the Little Ladies’ Tresses, Spiranthes 
simplex, growing with S. gracilis and S. cernua. 
In conclusion, I would merely mention the fact that in a two hours 
walk this Fall I collected over seventy varieties of fungi, many of 
them edible. 
WABAN, MASSACHUSETTS. 
A NEW VARIETY OF LESPEDEZA CAPITATA.— A Lespedeza closely 
related to L. capitata Michx. but with the leaflets linear-oblong to 
lanceolate and acuminate has puzzled some of the Connecticut 
botanists who, judging by the leaflets, have been inclined to call the 
plant L. angustifolia (Pursh) Ell., but a close examination of material 
of the Connecticut plant from Norwich and Glastonbury shows it 
to have the short peduncles and long calyx of L. capitata. An appar- 
ently identical sheet in the Gray Herbarium, collected by F. E. 
McDonald at Peoria, Illinois, has been referred to L. capitata, var. 
longifolia (DC.) T. &. G., but like the Connecticut material it has 
the stem and the calyx loosely pilose and the leaflets covered beneath 
with dull pubescence. It is thus not satisfactorily referable to L. 
capitata, var. longifolia which, as originally described (as L. longifolia 
DC.) has the leaflets appressed silvery-silky beneath. Material 
from Beardstown, Illinois, with the narrow leaflets silvery-silky 
beneath appears to be good var. longifolia and this material has the 
