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Another plot of ground in our village yielded two interesting plants. 

 This was where a house had burned; the cellar was then filled and 

 seeded to bluegrass and clover. Silene antirrhina L., the sleepy 

 catchfly, appeared in several places, and also Hyoscyamus niger L., 

 the Black Henbane, a common European weed, poisonous to pigs. 

 The last edition of Gray's Manual reports it as occurring in America 

 from "Quebec and Maine to New York and Michigan." Though it 

 has been found from time to time in eastern Massachusetts it does 

 not seem to persist in this region. See Fernald, Rhodora, xii. 191, 

 and Deane, Rhodora, xii. 215. — Emily F. Fletcher, Westford, 

 Massachusetts. 



The Authority for the Binomial Nymphaea magnifica. — In 

 the May issue of Rhodora there occurred a misprint which is the more 

 regrettable from the fact that being connected with the publication 

 of a new combination it is likely, if not immediately corrected, to find 

 its way into various reviews, card-catalogues, etc. On this account 

 we wish to record here as early as possible the fact that the note on 

 Nymphaea magnifica in Rhodora, xviii. 120, was written by Professor 

 Henry S. Conard, not Conrad, as unfortunately rendered through a 

 typographical error. — Ed. 



The twenty-second annual Field Meeting of the Josselyn 

 Botanical Society of Maine will be held in Wells and Kennebunk, 

 August 8, 1916, with headquarters at Gleason's Inn, Ogunquit. 

 Announcements will be sent to members and to others on request two 

 weeks previous to the meeting. — Dana W. Fellows, Secretary, 

 Portland, Maine. 



Vol. 18, no. 209, including pages 93 to 120 and plate 120, was issued 



4 May, 1916. 



