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intermediate individuals also, bearing both thick and slender spikes. 

 Mr. (iladewitz, Secretary and Treasurer of the Detroit Institute of 

 Science, was the first to discover and report these squatters that have 

 preempted that section of Michigan territory which seems to provide 

 those cool and saline conditions to which they are accustomed in 

 their native haunts. 



Another traveler that recently has been reported from the eastern 

 shores of Michigan between Detroit and Port Huron is Aster angustus 

 (Lindl.) T. & G. This is quite plentiful on a common in the village 

 of River Rouge, on the banks of the Detroit and Rouge Rivers. This 

 village is not far removed from Oakwood and the salt fields probably 

 underlie it though the surface soil, at least to a tyro, gives no indica- 

 tion of a saline character. 



Mr. Chandler was the original discoverer of the Rayless Aster at 

 this locality and probably the first to record it from Michigan. 



Mr. Billington of Detroit, has discovered near Palmer Park, 

 Detroit, Mich., a plant that proves to be Pcntstemon gracilis Nutt. 

 This is far east of its recorded range of from Minnesota to Missouri 

 for its eastern limits. He has also found near Cass Lake Galium 

 ercctum Huds. This has not been recorded heretofore for localities 

 west of the New England states. It seems to be well established at 

 the locality mentioned. Specimens of the above have been preserved 

 for their private herbaria by the original discoverers. Such as I have 

 collected are as given below. 



Salicornia Europaca L. : Oakwood, Mich.; Fanvcll, Gladewitz & 

 Chandler, no. 4105, Sept. 23, 1915. Salicornia Europaca Linn. var. 

 pachystachya (Koch) Fernald: Oakwood, Mich.; Farwcll, Gladewitz & 

 Chandler, no. 4107, Sept. 23, 1907. Salicornia Europaca Linn. var. 

 prostrata (Pall.) Fernald: Oakwood, Mich.; Farwcll, Gladewitz & 

 Chandler, no. 4103. Aster sub ulatus Mx. : Oakwood, Mich. ; Farwcll, 

 Gladewitz & Chandler, no. 4102, Sept. 23, 1915. Aster angustus 

 (Lindl.) T. & G.: River Rouge, Mich.; Farwcll, no. 4122, Sept. 30, 

 1915. Pluchca camphorala (Linn.) DC: Oakwood, Mich.; Farwcll, 

 Gladewitz & Chandler, no. 4104, Sept. 23, 1915. 



Department of Botany, 



Parke, Davis & Co. Detroit, Michigan. 



