1921] Collins, — Three Plants new to Rhode Island 27 



Three Plants new to Rhode Island. — It may be well to put 

 on record the following Rhode Island stations for plants which do 

 not appear to have been listed from this state before. 



Hedeoma hispida Pursh. Found in considerable quantity in Man- 

 ton, Johnston, growing in a sandy sterile area. This previously has 

 been reported in New England from "Vermont" by Eggleston in 

 1904 (Rhod. 6: 142), Essex, Vt., by Blake in 1913 (Rhod. 15: 167), 

 Reading, Mass. (Rhod. 10: 208), Putnam, Ct., by Harger in 1908 

 (Rhod. 10: 208), Portland, Ct., by Bissell in 1911 (Rhod. 13: 31). 



Apocynum medium Greene. A single patch a few feet in diameter 

 by a roadside in Scituate. The species is widely distributed in New 

 England but the only other Rhode Island station known to me is 

 on Block Island, where it was collected in 1913 by Fernald, Hunne- 

 well and Long. 



Potentilla tridcntata, forma hirsutifolia Pease. A small quantity 

 found in Scituate, first observed by Mr. George H. Leland. Pre- 

 viously reported by Pease in 1914 (Rhod. 16: 195) from Province of 

 Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts; also a transi- 

 tional form in Connecticut. — J. Franklin Collins, Providence, 

 Rhode Island. 



Incorporation of the New England Botanical Club. — At the 

 twenty-fifth annual meeting of the New England Botanical Club, 

 which was held at the rooms of the Twentieth Century Club in 

 Boston, December 3, 1920, the following officers were elected for 

 the ensuing year: President, Nathaniel T. Kidder (for the second 

 time in the history of the Club); Vice President, W. J. V. Osterhout; 

 Corresponding Secretary, E. L. Rand; Recording Secretary and 

 Treasurer, E. F. Williams; Phaenogamic Curator, F. W. Hunne- 

 well; Cryptogamic Curator, J. F. Collins; Librarian, Walter Deane; 

 Councillors, M. L. Fernald, C. H. Knowlton, and R. A. Ware. 



As the Club has from time to time received by gift or legacy collec- 

 tions of considerable value, and since it must, as opportunity per- 

 mits, make provision for their care, it has been thought best to place 

 the Club upon a more regular legal basis than that of informal asso- 

 ciation. Accordingly, at its meeting on January 7, 1921, after due 

 consideration and on legal advice, the New England Botanical Club 



