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near the base of Mt. Kineo, Moosehead Lake, Maine, August 28, 1871, 
and so far as the writer knows has never been collected since until 
these Monhegan specimens were found. Some of the latter material 
has been deposited in the Gray Herbarium, where its identification 
has been confirmed by Prof. M. L. Fernald. 
Digitalis purpurea L. is described in Gray’s Manual 7th edition, 
p. 726, as having in America a very restricted distribution in “ Mead- 
ows and pastures, Cape Breton I.; also N. Y.; rather rare and local 
a casual escape from gardens." The writer was accordingly greatly 
surprised during the summer of 1914 to find it growing in considerable 
abundance along a sandy roadside south of Glen Orchards near the 
west shore of Muskoka Lake, Ontario. Inquiry elicited the fact that 
it had been introduced from England by a settler twenty years ago. 
It has gradually spread from his farm along roadsides for several miles, 
and also back into open places in the woods. It seems thoroughly 
established and naturalized, seeds freely, and is spreading widely. 
It occurs as separate, scattered individuals rather than in colonies.— 
FREDERICK O. Grover, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. 
Vol. 17, no. 202, including pages 181 to 204, was issued 30 October, 1915. 
