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while at Cooperstown, Ostego County, New York, which is only 

 about one hundred miles west of Albany, I collected a shadbush 

 which at the time I supposed was Amelanchicr sanguinea (Pursh) 

 DC. This specimen was later sent to Professor Wiegand, who iden- 

 tified it as A. grand i flora. In returning it he wrote me as follows 

 "One specimen in particular is interesting to me as it extends the 

 range of the species farther east than heretofore known, this is A. 

 grandiflora from Otsego County. There is no reason why this species 

 should not occur throughout the limestone belt of New York east- 

 ward quite to Albany, but it has not yet been reported before east of 

 Ithaca." I have just learned that Prof. Wiegand's name A. grandi- 

 flora while in press was anticipated by a homonym published a few 

 days earlier, and that he has since chosen the name A. amabilis as 

 a substitute. — Francis Welles Hunnewell, Wellesley, Massachu- 

 setts. 



The date of the February issue (unpublished as this goes to press) will be 

 annouced later. 



