1913] Manning,— Berberis Thunbergii 225 
VIOLA SELKIRKII IN CONNECTICUT.— Several years ago I collected 
in the Beaver Dam Swamp in Salisbury, Connecticut, a number of 
plants of a violet which seemed to me of more delicate growth than 
the violets to which I was accustomed. These were pressed and 
forgotten until the past season (spring of 1913) when the finding of 
the same type of violet in another part of the town brought to mind 
the earlier collection. 
April 27, a party of us walked to the Wolf Den. This is a deep cold 
gorge, which looks as though water had eaten out the underlying lime 
stone until the outer shell was so weakened that it caved in from its 
own weight. Huge blocks of stone are piled in confusion and between 
them grow trees whose tops fail to tower above the moss hung sides 
of the gash. In the moss flourish delicate ferns, and flowers which 
love cool damp places. Lycopodium lucidulum grows in great patches; 
Polypodium vulgare, and Camptosorus rhizophyllus run riot but I had 
never known of any plant (except mosses) to grow there which had 
not been found in many other places. "The violets were in full bloom 
and we gathered a quantity. 
On arriving home we found to our delight that we had unknowingly 
gathered Viola Selkirkii Pursh. Not willing to trust our own de- 
termination we sent a specimen to Mr. M. L. Fernald who verified 
it and pronounced the plant the first V. Selkirkii Pursh reported 
from Connecticut. A specimen has been placed in the Gray Her- 
barium.— ORRA PARKER PHELPS, Canton, New York. 
BERBERIS THUNBERGIT NATURALIZED IN New HaMPsHIRE.— On 
October 4th I found Thunberg’s Barberry (Berberis Thunbergii DC.) 
growing in the McCoy pasture on the side of Monadnock Mountain, 
Jaffrey, New Hampshire, at an elevation of about 1400 feet above sea 
level. It was about two miles from the summer home of Mr. F. H. 
Gilson, who was one of our party, and about two miles from the hotel 
called The Ark, they being the nearest habitations. At neither place 
did I notice plants of Japanese Barberry. It is likely that seed from 
this plant was brought from some distance by birds, but it is possible, 
of course, that someone may have planted the seed in this locality, 
as it is near a path that is occasionally used. "The plant I should say 
was five or six years old, as it had made a growth of 2-3 feet; and the 
shrub was only scantily fruiting. It was with Huckleberry and other 
