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Dr. Gray, Syn. FL ii. pt. 1, 20(5 (1878), mentions this species as a 

 forage and garden plant and suggests the likelihood of its running 

 wild; Britton, Alan. PL N. States and Canada, ed. 3. 775 (1907), 

 gives the American range as New York and Mass.; Britton & Brown, 

 111. Fl. of the Northern States and Canada, ed. 2. iii. 92 (1913), gives 

 range as Mass. to Maryland; Gray's Man. ed. 7, 683, states that it is 

 "not rare." 



The first American record I have found is in Dame & Collins's 

 Flora of Middlesex Co. 74 (1888) and runs: "Ashland, escaped and 

 sparingly established (Rev. Thos. Morong; specimen in herb, of)." 

 The more recent records which have been found are as follows: 

 Rhodora, i. 82 (1899) where Mabel Priscilla Cook records the species 

 as "well established near Munroe Station," Middlesex County, Massa- 

 chusetts. Edward B. Chamberlain in Rhodora, ii. 214 (1901) states 

 that he has seen a specimen from Maine and that a printed record has 

 been found for its occurrence in Massachusetts. In Rhodora, iv. 

 84 (1902), Mr. E. B. Harger gives an interesting account of the species 

 becoming established along a roadside near his abandoned garden at 

 Oxford, Connecticut, during the summers of 1900 and 1901, the colony 

 having spread across the road. With the exception of the Middlesex 

 Flora only the most recent local floras cite its occurrence. It seems 

 to be well established now from Quebec to Connecticut as may be 

 seen from the following stations now shown by material in the Gray 

 Herbarium (Gr.) and the Herbarium of the New England Botanical 

 Club (N. E.). 



Quebec: waste places, Quebec, July 10, 1905, ,/. ]{. Churchill 

 (Gr.); Wolf's Cove, Sillery, Aug. 0, 1902, K. F. Williams (Gr.). 

 Prince Edward Island: roadsides, Charlottetown, Sept. 2, 1912, 

 Fernaid, Long & St. John, no. 7956 (Gr.). Maine: hundreds of 

 dumps on river-terraces, Presque Isle, July 14, 1902, Williams, 

 Collins & Fernaid (Gr. & N. E.); Hartford, July, 1892, J. C. Parlin 

 (Gr. &. N. E.); waste ground near railroad, Littleton, July 4, 1902, 

 Knight & Billings, no. 12 (Gr.); Owl's Head, near Rockland, A. H. 

 Moore (N. E.). Vermont: Townshend, Aug. 17, 1911, L. A. Wheeler 

 (Gr.), and June 23, 1912 (N. E.); Vernon, June 2, 1902, W. II. 

 Blanchard (Gr.). Massachusetts: edge of woods and embankment 

 of built-up road through swamp, Sherborn, July, 1909, Miss M. L: 

 Loomis (Gr. & N. E.), and edge of swamp, June 8, 1911 (N. E.); 

 roadside, Bartlet St., Andover, July 6, 1901, A. S. Pease, no. 1119 



