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khodora [Novxmbm 



combe County, August 2, 1897, Bilimore Herb. no. 307°. Connecti- 

 cut: waste grounds, Bridgeport, July 21, 1914, E. II. Eame* no 

 8825. 



Bridgeport, Connecticut. 



MONTIA BIBIRICA IN MASSACHUSETTS.— While at Manchester, 

 Massachusetts, in July, 1916, I noticed close to the verandah of the 

 house where I was stopping a plant which I had never seen before. 

 Not being able to trace it in Gray's Manual, 1 sent specimens to 

 Prof. H. L. Robinson who informed me that it was Montia sibirica (L.) 

 Howell, a Pacific Coast species not known on our eastern coast. A 

 brief note on its occurrence here may be of interest. 



There were fifty or more plants growing on soil kept damp by the 

 drippings from the roof of the verandah. They were associated with 

 Siettaria media and Rantmculiu repens under a group of Berberis 

 vulgaris round which twined SmUax hrrbacca. At first sight the plant 

 reminded me of some of the Caryophyllucatc but it was marked by the 

 eauline leaves of which there was a single pair on each stem, sessile, 

 broadly cordate at the base and somewhat acute at the apex while the 

 radical leaves, usually only one, were long-petioled and narrowly 

 lanceolate. 



The locality, Smith's Point, near Lobster Cove, Manchester, is a 

 region covered by the estates of summer residents noted for their 

 large and beautiful gardens. Since plants from the Pacific Coast are 

 grown in large quantities it is probable that Montia was introduced 

 with them directly or since, as Prof. Robinson informs me, the species 

 has been introduced in certain localities in Europe, it may have 

 reached our coast from the East. In the case of fungi it is not infre- 

 quently the fact that Pacific species reach our eastern coast by way 

 of Europe. The hollyhock fungi is a well known instance.— W. G. 

 Farlow, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Vol. 18, no. 214, including -pages 203 to 224, was issued 2 October, 1916. 



