68 Rhodora [APRIL 
bog at the southerly end of the village which contains a quantity of 
Kalmia polifolia Wang., the most southerly record for the state. 
Across a sandy ridge from this bog on the banks of the Pomperaug 
I found in 1884 Hibiscus Moscheutus L. The date of this record is of 
interest as the adjacent country has since been planted with native 
and exotie showy species and the present-day collector, if he found the 
rose-mallow there, would be apt to take it for a planted specimen, 
but in 1884 the place was entirely “ unimproved.” 
Along a road leading westerly from the village of Woodbury and 
in the adjacent fields are a quantity of Avena pubescens Huds. and 
Galium Mollugo L., the former new to the state. Farther to the 
westward the upper reaches of a pond are covered with Wollfia co- 
lumbiana Karst., here discovered by Eames & Godfrey, and near by 
along a brook grows Carex tribuloides Wahlenb. var. reducta Bailey. 
Other noteworthy species of Woodbury have been mentioned in con- 
nection with their occurrence farther south. 
OXFORD, CONNECTICUT. 
SOME NORTH AMERICAN RELATIVES OF POLYGONUM 
MARITIMUM. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
IN studying a glaucous large-fruited Polygonum which abounds on 
the sandy beaches of the Magdalen Islands and on some of the sands 
of western Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island, 
it has been necessary to examine in some detail the plants which have 
passed in America as Polygonum maritimum. One of these, P. 
Fowleri Robinson, is sufficiently distinct in aspect as well as in habitat 
to need little discussion here, although it is worthy of note that this 
species of damp saline shores from the Straits of Belle Isle to the 
mouth of the Kennebec seems nowhere to encroach on the areas 
occupied by either of the other two plants to be discussed; for, while 
one of them is known only from the sands of western Newfoundland 
and the islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the other follows the 
