202 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
9-19 mm. longa 3-8 mm. lata; ea stolonum similia majora 1.5-2.3 cm. 
longa 6-9.5 mm. lata. Stem leaves wedge-obovate, broadest above 
the middle, obtuse or rounded at apex, sometimes cuspidulate, 
cuneately narrowed to the sessile base, glabrous, barely revolute on 
margin, 9-19 mm. long, 3-8 mm. broad; those of the stolons similar 
but larger, 1.5-2.3 cm. long, 6-9.5 mm. broad. 
FLomma: swampy places between Tallahassee and St. Marks, 
April-May, 1843, Rugel 106 (Brit. Mus.); Lourstana: New Orleans, 
1832, Drummond 38 (TYPE COLL.: Brit. Mus.). 
Rather strikingly different from the type in leaf-form, but in flower- 
characters identical, and scarcely worthy of more than formal rank. 
Rugel's number 106 represents in part a state of this forma answering 
to Chodat's var. abortiva of the typical form, which has been shown 
by Dr. Robinson (see Ruopora ii. 242 (1900)) to be merely an ordi- 
nary antumnal phase like that found in the genus Viola.— S. F. 
BLAKE, London, England. 
REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF THE BOSTON 
DISTRICT,— XXI. 
NYCTAGINACEAE. 
vt¥ (SI 
OXYBAPHUS. vla 
auod 
O. FLORIBUNDUS Chois. Ayer (G. M. Allen, Sept 20; 1912; speċi- 
men in herb. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.). Fugitive frorh thé west. 
O. NYcTAGINEUS (Michx.) Sweet. Roadsidés"ànd fields; Woburn, 
Cambridge, Dedham, Brockton, Duxbury! “Very abundant and con- 
spicuous at Duxbury. See Rnopona xiv. 20, 90, 1912. Introduced 
from the west. moti bsiaiaqee <i 
ILLECEBRACEAE. 
ANYCHIA. 
A. canadensis (L.) BSP. Dry woods, frequent. Not reported 
from southeastern towns. . 
A. polygonoides Raf. Dry open places; Burlington, Danvers, 
W. Boston (dump, 1882), Hyde Park, W. Quincy (Blue Hills near 
Dome). : 
