20 Rhodora [JANUARY 
(Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); near timber line, alt. 10,000-12,000 feet, 
high mountains about Gray’s Peak, Colorado, August 20, 1885, H. N. 
Patterson, no. 164, in part (in Gray Herb.). Patterson’s no. 164 was 
distributed as B. Lunaria, the material of this number in the Gray 
Herbarium consisting of three typical plants of that species and 
one of B. lanceolatum. Following the clew given by Maxon, an exami- 
nation of an envelope of Brandegee’s material in the Gray Herbarium 
from the Sawatch Range, labeled B. Lunaria, reveals seven plants of 
that species and one of undoubted B. lanceolatum. These two mix- 
tures of B. lanceolatum with B. Lunaria indicate that B. lanceolatum 
should be sought where B. Lunaria occurs.— M. L. F.] 
ADDITIONAL Woot Waste PLants.— Miss Emily F. Fletcher, who 
has so frequently recorded interesting foreign plants appearing on 
fields fertilized with wool waste, has recently sent some notable speci- 
mens to the Gray Herbarium. At North Chelmsford she found Ero- 
dium laciniatum (Cav.) Willd., var. Bovet (Delile) Murbeck, a native 
of Egypt, Tunis, and Algiers. At Westford she collected Sphaeralcea 
Fendleri Gray, a native of western Texas, Arizona, etc. Her most 
dramatic discovery was the occurrence at Westford of Wissadula calli- 
morpha (Hoche) Hassl., var. Friesii Hassl., a native of eastern Bolivia 
and adjacent Brazil, which was not known to science until 1906, and 
even now is represented by only three collections. Miss Fletcher has 
inquired at the mill and ascertained that among the various sheep- 
raising districts from which wool was imported during the last two 
years to Westford, was “South America as far south as Chile and 
Argentine.” This is circumstantial evidence which helps to explain 
the presence of this unusual plant in Massachusetts.— HAROLD 
Sr. Jonn, Gray Herbarium. 
Vol. 19, no. 228, including pages 257 to 288 and title page of volume, was 
issued 27 December, 1917. 
