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varlety, var. uberior C. Mohr, in the Louisianian area from South 
Carolina to Florida and Texas. C. laevivaginata, on the other hand, 
is essentially Alleghanian, occurring from Massachusetts to North 
Carolina, Tennessee, and Illinois. Judged by its representation in 
herbaria it is much less common in New England than C. stipatu. 
The herbarium material immediately accessible shows 88 sheets of 
C. stipata from New England, but only 11 sheets of C. laevivaginata 
representing the following 6 stations. MassaAcHusETTs: Purgatory 
Swamp, Norwood, June 16, 1878, Faxon, June 21, 1896, E. F. Williams, 
June 27, 1897, Sidney Harris; Williamstown, May 30, 1898, J. R. 
Churchill, June 17, 1901, E. F. Williams; swamp, Stockbridge, 
June 28, 1900, Ralph Hoffmann. RmnopE Istanp: without definite 
locality, Olney; Cat Swamp, Providence, July 2, 1893, J. F. Collins. 
Connecticut: North Cromwell or Farmington, 1878, Chas. Wright 
(both C. stipata and C. laevivaginata with one label). Judge Churchill 
has recently informed the writer that C. laevivaginata is also found in 
rich soil near the Merrimac at Bradford, Massachusetts. 'The species 
is, however, so little known as yet that further information as to its 
local distribution and its habitat is needed. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
ARENARIA STRICTA IN THE Warre MouNrAINS.— In the seventh 
edition of Gray's Manual Arenaria stricta Michx. is reported as found 
on Mt. Washington, N. H., the citation being based upon a specimen 
collected by Mr. W. H. Manning. "That this reference, however, 
is due to a transposition of labels and that the specimen upon which 
it is founded really came from Glens Falls, N. Y., has been convinc- 
ingly shown (Rnopona, xi, 184-5) by Professor Fernald, who adds 
that the *summit of a hill, Holderness, N. H.,' where the plant was 
collected in July, 1891, by Dr. R. C. Manning, is, so far as he knows, 
the only New Hampshire station for this species. It was of interest 
to me, therefore, on 19 July, 1915, while I was collecting on Hart's 
Ledge, at the southern extremity of the Montalban Range in the 
lower part of Crawford Notch in Coós and Carroll counties, thirteen 
miles south of Mt. Washington and about twenty-five miles northeast 
of Holderness, to find an abundance of this plant growing in woods, 
on damp rocks, along a steep and somewhat intermittent watercourse. 
This station is on the southeast side of the ledge in the township of 
