1916] Long, — Delphinium Consolida in America 171 



solida through Mr. Standley, stated that he had seen no United States 

 specimens of this species although he had examined all the material 

 at Cambridge and New York — corroborating Dr. Britton's view and 

 that of Mr. St. John. Mr. Eggleston has been interested in this 

 species (particularly in relation to drug-plant investigations being 

 made by the Department of Agriculture) and on expressing a desire 

 to see the plants which had come to my attention, I sent him the 

 several specimens and have received his verifying determination upon 

 all of them. 



To return to this American material of Delphinium Consolida: — 

 One of the sheets in the Herbarium of the Philadelphia Botanical Club, 

 collected "on ships ballast below the Pennsylvania Salt Works, Phila- 

 delphia" many years ago by that indefatigable ballast-ground special- 

 ist, Isaac Burk, is rather of historical interest than of value for the 

 present distribution of the species. The material found at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania belongs, certainly in part at least, to the same 

 class. Besides additional specimens of the Burk collection there is 

 material from " Camden, N. J." collected in 1878 by Isaac Martindale. 

 Although actual evidence on the label is lacking, it is in all probability 

 to be associated with the record in Britton's Catalogue of "Camden: 

 On ballast grounds — Martindale." i In the Martindale Herbarium 

 at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy there is a further collection 

 of I). Consolida from Camden, New Jersey, made by C. F. Parker in 

 1882. 2 Curiously enough there appears to be no material here of 

 Martindale's 1878 collection of the plant, but there are several earlier 

 collections of what he took to be D. Consolida. (These are however 

 D. Ajaeis.) Evidently considering he already had the species well 

 represented from Camden in his herbarium, he used this 1878 material 

 for purposes of exchange. 



But the second specimen in the collection of the Philadelphia Botani- 

 cal Club, labelled "Crass field — New Egypt, N. J.," proves to be of 

 some import. The habitat was so definitely suggestive of as real an 

 occurrence in our flora as is shown by 1). Ajaeis that the collector, 

 Mr. J. H. Grove of New Egypt, was communicated with. He wrote 

 that he distinctly remembers collecting the plant in 1907, that he has 



1 Britton, Cat. PL N. J. 40 (1S89). 



2 This materia] — of three specimens showing both flower and mature fruit — is named 



Delphinium ilintiriculum Ledeb. on Parker's label, and may possihly hear some relation tu the 

 reputed occurrence of ihis species in America. 



