206 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
in a wet marshy place on the edge of the lake, a small quantity of 
Galium trifidum L. In the seventh edition of Gray’s Manual the 
southern range of this species is given as “south to northern and 
western New England.” The only record of the species from Massa- 
chusetts in the herbarium of the New England Botanical Club is 
from Berkshire County. The material from Lake Waban was identi- 
fied for me by Prof. Wiegand.— F. W. HuxxEwELL 2d, Wellesley, 
Massachusetts. ; 
AN OCCURRENCE OF NICOTIANA RUSTICA IN MASSACHUSETTS.— 
While beating up the “ Peat meadow " section of Worcester, Massachu- 
setts, for late-blooming plants on October 6th the writer came un- 
expectedly across a fine station of the Wild Tobacco (Nicotiana 
rustica L.). The flowering period had passed, and the plants were in 
full fruit. A specimen, forwarded to the Gray Herbarium by Mrs. 
E. L. Horr, was there identified, with the comment that the occurrence 
of this species in the New England states has not been very definitely 
recorded except in Connecticut and that the station in Worcester 
had better be put on published record. 
The colony here observed consisted of five plants, two being close 
together, a third about six feet away, and two more (some four feet 
apart) at a distance of some twenty yards. The three plants near 
together, were in poor soil, mixed with broken bricks, ashes, and other 
dumping-ground refuse, while the further group was in a small patch 
of grassland. Within ten yards of the first group was a solitary stalk 
of Hibiscus Trionum with one open flower, one inflated fruiting calyx, 
and two unopened buds. At a distance of about fifty yards from the 
group were two fine plants of Abutilon Theophrasti. Other plants in 
the vicinity were Arctium minus, several species of Chenopodium, a 
single stalk of Helianthus annuus, Sambucus canadensis, T ypha lati- 
folia, Eupatorium purpureum, var. maculatum, ete. 
While one of the main thoroughfares of the city passes within two 
hundred yards of the stand of the Tobacco, the surrounding soil is of 
a peaty character and the peat-bog comes close to the spot. Between 
the Tobacco and the street, however, the land has been filled in and 
