1912] Deane,— Further Note on Euphorbia Cyparissias 195 
it as I have chanced upon in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachu- 
setts. In but one place have I found it in fruit, and that was in 
Greenfield, this state, on June 16, 1910. There I found two stations. 
“The first station was on one of the main residential streets when I 
was walking from my hotel — the Welden — to spend a half day on the 
near-by elevation known locally as the ‘Poet’s Seat) The plants 
were very numerous over an area of approximately thirty meters 
square, extending from the grassy street-side up a dilapidated bank- 
wall and over a part of a lot of grass land, in another part of which 
was a dwelling. The plants carried an abundance of well developed 
fruit in such an advanced stage of maturity that on drying there was a 
strong tendency for the fruit to become detached. 
“On my return by a different route, I found on the margin of the 
settled portion of the city, two other patches close by each other, and 
distant from the first station a half or three-quarters of a mile. Though 
the area here was considerably less, the plants were numerous and 
bore abundant, well developed fruit. 
“This year, on May 11th, I revisited the first station. The plants 
appeared to be as numerous as on my first visit, but were only just 
coming into flower. The area covered by them was limited on two 
sides by as.many streets, while in another direction it was marked by a 
line beyond which the grass is kept closely cut as a lawn about the 
dwelling above referred to. Evidently the grass between the lawn 
and the street is allowed to mature before it is cut, a period which 
allows also for the maturity of the spurge. 
“As to the persistency of the species in the face of a determined 
effort to eradicate it, I cannot speak from wide experience, but my 
belief is that it is not difficult to get rid of it if one wishes to do so. 
And for this reason: — when, some fifteen years ago, we first took 
possession of this place, I found, on one part of the house grounds, a 
tangle of low blackberry vines, grass and this Euphorbia. It seemed 
to me then a discouraging task to get them out of the way. But by 
frequent cutting I soon found that the undesired plants were willing 
to give up the struggle, and I have had no trouble from them since. 
Just beyond the limits of my cutting, however, they are holding their 
own with unabated vigor. 
“As the first house here was built by my ancestors in the latter part 
of the seventeenth century, it is likely that the plants have been long 
in possession of certain places where they still persist. Ever since we 
have been here I have looked for fruit, but have never seen it here." 
