1916] Farlow, — Rhododendron maximum in New Hampshire 25 



(N. E.). Connecticut: roadside, Oxford, June 19, 1901 & 17, 1902, 

 E. B. Harger (Gr.). New York: cultivated in many yards, Buffalo, 

 G. W. Clinton, no. 4 (Gr.). 



Since Lepechin, the authority for the binomial which must be 

 revived, is a name not familiar to most American botanists, it may 

 not be out of place to mention that he was a professor of botany and 

 director of the Imperial Gardens at St. Petersburg during the last half 

 of the eighteenth century. His name was connected with American 

 botany, fourteen years after his death, by Willdenow's publication in 

 1816 of the genus Lepechinia, a group of Mexican mints. 

 Gray Herbarium. 



RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

 W. G. Farlow. 



Last August Mr. J. W. Robertson, a resident of Chocorua, N. H., 

 informed me that he had seen growing on the ridge lying between 

 Mt. Chocorua and Mt. Paugus, a plant which he thought might 

 be Rhododendron maximum. As that species had not before been 

 recorded in New Hampshire north of Fitzwilliam near Mt. Monad- 

 nock, I asked Mr. Robertson to send me if possible specimens of 

 leaves and twigs that the determination might be verified. He 

 was so good as to send me in November fresh specimens which 

 showed that the plant was certainly R. maximum. According to Mr. 

 Robertson there are three patches of the plant on the spruce ridge 

 that lies half a mile above the Half-way House between the Liberty 

 Path and the Brook Trail on Mt. Chocorua at an altitude of about 

 1500 ft. 



Although the phaenogamic flora of Chocorua is less interesting than 

 that of some other places in the neighborhood of the White Mountains, 

 it may be desirable that I should add a note in regard to a few plants 

 which I have collected on different occasions. On the summit of Mt. 

 Chocorua the only plant of interest is Paronychia argyrocoma, var. 

 albimontana. More interesting is Pogonia trianthophora (P. pendula) 

 which is abundant under beech trees near Lake Chocorua in the middle 



