1912]  Blewitt,— Introduced Plants new to Connecticut 163 
exceed two dollars per day, and we hope to secure reduced fare on the 
Maine Central Railroad from all points. 
The summer meetings of this Society, since its organization, with 
three exceptions, have been held in June or early in July, and these 
three were on or near the seashore, so that this is the first opportunity 
offered for the collection and comparison of plants of the interior of 
the State in the month of August. This will afford a series of flowering 
plants differing much from those of June or July. Make your plans 
now to attend, and further notice, with additional information, will 
be sent two weeks previous to the meeting.— Dana W. FELLows, 
Secretary, 655 Congress St., Portland, Maine. 
AN ILLUSTRATED KEY To THE TREES.— It is always a pleasure to 
be able to recommend a book which is perfectly simple and direct and 
for which one does not have to offer an apology. Such a thoroughly 
satisfactory little work is the Key of Trees by Collins & Preston.! It is 
simply an illustrated key, without pretense to being anything more 
and without the mawkish padding which fills so many “tree books.” 
But it is done with infinite care and will be found trustworthy and of 
real use by all who wish to know the identities and ranges of the 
native and ordinarily planted trees. A liberal interpretation of the 
definition of trees has been allowed so that all species which anywhere 
attain an arboreal habit are included, even many species of Salix 
and Crataegus. The illustrations, from photographs of trunks and 
line-drawings of leaves, are very accurate and aid to make the book 
the most satisfactory Key to Trees which has yet been produced.— 
M. L. F. 
INTRODUCED PLANTS NEW TO CoNNECTICUT.— In RHODORA, vol. 
xiii. 149, the writer enumerated a number of rare introduced plants 
found in a yard about a rubber reclaiming plant at Naugatuck, 
Connecticut. A number of other rare plants have been collected at 
this place since, four of them new to the State: Hordewm murinum L., 
a European species; Tradescantia reflexa Raf., a Spiderwort of the 
South and West; Onosmodium occidentale Mackenzie, a coarse plant 
of the western plains; and Salvia verticillata L., a European Salvia 
1 Illustrated Key to the Wild and commonly Cultivated Trees of the Northeastern 
United States and Adjacent Canada based primarily upon Leaf Characters, by J. 
Franklin Collins and Howard W. Preston. Pocket size, 184 + x pp. with 279 
illustrations. N. Y. Henry Holt & Co. 1912. 
