1912] Kingman,— Illecebrum verticillatum 207 
graded for building purposes, to some extent; but none of it has ever 
been under cultivation.— Norman P. Woopwarp, Worcester, Massa- 
chusetts. 
A sEEDLESS DARBERRY FOUND AT SHERBORN, MASSACHUSETTS.— 
At the request of the editor, it gives me pleasure to send RHODORA 
some notes upon a seedless Barberry, which I recently sent to the 
Gray Herbarium, where it was identified as Berberis vulgaris, var. 
asperma. "The shrub has been known here for about forty years, but 
its characteristic feature was not found out until four or five years ago, 
when it was discovered by chance. The shrub stands in partial shade 
on sloping ground in a dry, rocky field, which was formerly an open 
pasture but is now rapidly growing up to pitch pines, junipers, blue- 
berries, etc. Behind it is a thick stand of second growth woods, the 
original trees having been cut about thirty-five years ago. There are 
other barberries in the field, but all are typical B. vulgaris. So far as 
known the land has never been cultivated, and the plant appears to 
be thoroughly wild. It was brought to my notice in the autumn of 
1911 by the discoverer of its seedless character, who not being a 
botanist did not appreciate the scientific interest of the discovery. 
The plant bore little fruit then, though it was large and apparently 
thrifty, and I was able to collect only a poor specimen, which was 
deposited in the herbarium of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
No. 713 of the Flora of Sherborn, Massachusetts. This year, how- 
ever, I have been able to get good flowering and fruiting material, 
specimens of which I have placed in the Gray Herbarium and with 
the Boston Society of Natural History, Nos. 713a and 713b.— 
ManrHa Lovise Loomis, Sherborn, Massachusetts. 
An AMERICAN STATION FOR [LLECEBRUM VERTICILLATUM.— Among 
‘some plants recently identified for me at the Gray Herbarium was a 
specimen of Illecebrum verticillatum L., a species somewhat widely 
distributed in Europe and northern Africa, but apparently not hitherto 
recorded from America. I found it on land formerly occupied by the 
Reading Nursery, at Reading, Massachusetts. This nursery lot was 
