1912} Chamberlain. A Sedum new to North America 227 
RANGE EXTENSIONS OF RHAMNUS FRANGULA AND 
SPOROBOLUS ASPERIFOLIUS. 
Eanr E. SHERFF. 
THERE seems to have been gathered heretofore no evidence that 
Rhamnus Frangula L. and Sporobolus asperifolius Nees & Meyen were 
established in Illinois. Britton’s Manual credits the former with a 
range from Long Island to New Jersey, also (as being * reported 
from") Ontario; and the latter, with a range from Assiniboia to Brit- 
ish Columbia, south to Missouri, Nebraska, California and Mexico. 
Grays New Manual (7th edition) states that Rhamnus Frangula 
is established in Ontario, on Long Island and in northern New Jersey; 
while of Sporobolus asperifolius it makes no mention. Nor does a 
careful search among the specimens in the Herbarium of Field Museum 
show either species to have been found before in Illinois. 
The writer has found both of these species growing in Illinois the 
past season, and well established. Several tall shrubs of Rhamnus 
Frangula were found in Skokie Marsh, west of Glencoe, Illinois, June 
8, 1912. These were growing in a dense thicket on a somewhat ele- 
vated area of ground toward the center of the marsh. Presumably 
birds had previously obtained the drupes in Glencoe, more than a 
mile distant, where the species is used for ornament, and the hard 
nutlets had been deposited in Skokie Marsh. 
Sporolobus asperifolius was found north of Elgin, Illinois, August 
27,1912. Itoccurred in a small but very dense patch on wet, swampy 
soil along the C. M. & St. P. R. R. tracks. The culms were decumbent 
at the base and were much branched. The panicles were well devel- 
oped, but none had reached the length (15 to 20 cm.) frequently at- 
tained by western plants referred to this species. Evidently the 
species had come from the West by way of the railroad. 
Specimens of both species have been deposited in the Herbarium 
of Field Museum. 
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 
A SEDUM NEW To Nortu America.— Last summer, while passing 
through the village of South Bristol, Maine, I noticed an unfamiliar 
Sedum growing beside the road. The specimens collected could not 
