38 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
AMSINCKIA IN NEW ENGLAND. 
WALTER DEANE. 
Tue plants belonging to the genus Amsinckia, at home in west- 
ern North and South America, show a decided tendency to wander 
from their native haunts, establishing themselves as permanent 
weeds in near locations, and even appearing at intervals in eastern 
United States, while they have been recorded from Denmark and 
Australia.! An account of the occurrence of the genus in New Eng-. 
land may prove of interest. 
Amsinckia barbata Greene is a native of British Columbia and 
includes A. lycopsoides of Gray's Manual, 7th edition, 1908,? not 
Lehm., the latter being a species of the state of Washington and not 
yet recorded as an escape. A. barbata has been found in South- 
ington, Connecticut, by Luman Andrews and is recorded in the 
Catalogue of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Connecticut 328 (1910). 
The specimen has been determined at the Gray Herbarium. To this 
species has been doubtfully referred? a specimen in the Herb. N. E. 
Bot. Club from Lowell, Massachusetts. It is a fragmentary bit and 
is apparently abnormally developed. 
I was much pleased to find a single plant of A. barbata on July 3, 
1918, in Shelburne, Coós Co., New Hampshire. It was growing in a 
narrow strip of grass by the railroad near the station and was just 
beginning to flower. As the species could not be determined without 
fruit I reluctantly left it for a while. Its close proximity to freight 
cars with the accompanying men and horses moving about made 
the spot a dangerous place to leave a plant. All, however, went well 
till July 11, when I discovered to my sorrow that the grass all about 
had been eaten by horses, and my plant was nowhere to be seen. 
On the next day, however, July 12, I found the Amsinckia in good 
fruit, quietly resting under a large inverted cask that a strange chance 
had turned over it. It is an interesting record for Shelburne and for 
New Hampshire. The specimen has been identified at the Gray Her- 
barium, and is in my own collection. 
1 J, F. Macbride, Contrib. Gray Herb. xlix. 1 (1917). 
? J. F. Macbride, Ruopora xviii. 27 (1916). 
3 J. F. Macbride, l. c. 
