202 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
A NEW STATION FOR Scirpus Loneu.— Since the publication of 
the very distinct Scirpus Longii! in 1911, many students of our 
flora have sought the plant at favorable localities between the two 
regions from which it was described,— the Pine Barrens of New J ersey 
and the Charles River valley in eastern Massachusetts — but so far 
as the writer has learned quite without success. In the original dis- 
cussion of the plant it was pointed out that the occurrence of species 
characteristic of the Pine Barrens is not unprecedented in the valleys 
of the Charles and the adjacent small rivers, the Neponset, Concord, 
Mystic, &c., where numerous plants of Coastal Plain distribution 
occur at isolated stations. It is therefore of at least local interest 
to record Scirpus Longii from the Concord River. In organizing the 
herbarium of the late Edward S. Hoar, recently presented to the New 
England Botanical Club, many plants of unusual local interest have 
been found, collected either by Mr. Hoar or by his intimate friend, 
Thoreau. Among the sedges are two fine sheets of Scirpus Longit 
collected by Thoreau in 1859 and bearing the original penciled labels 
“Scirpus sylvaticus? [later scratched and marked “ Eriophorum "] 
Grt. meadows, May 28” and “ Scirpus Eriophorum. Great Meadows, 
July 17, '59." The earlier plant is beginning to flower; the later is 
fully developed, with good fruit and lingering anthers.— M. L. 
FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
THE JossELYN BoraNicAL Socrety of Maine met at Thomaston, 
Tuesday, August 12, 1913 for its Nineteenth Annual Meeting and 
Field Day. The sessions and field work continued through Wednes- 
day, Thursday and Friday. Collections were made over quite a 
large area including portions of Thomaston, Rockland, Rockport, 
Camden, South Thomaston, St. George, Warren and Islesboro. 
Twenty-five members and guests were in attendance, and by dividing 
the company into small parties for visiting different localities a large 
field was covered. Excursions were made to Mt. Megunticook in 
Camden, to the Lily Pond in Rockport, a large bog in Rockland, to 
the " Indian Garden" in Warren and to Isleboro and Spruce Head and 
Elwell Point. 
1 Fernald, Ruopora, xiii. 6 (1911). 
?Since this note went into type, the writer, while crossing the West Cambridge 
marshes, on July 8, 1913, came upon a large colony of Scirpus Longii, thus demon- 
strating its presence in the valley of the Mystic River. 
