208 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
sumably in Annapolis Co.; the common plant generally throughout 
the province being var. PINNATIFIDA Lecoq. & Lamotte. 
*Artemisia Pontica L. Waste ground, Dartmouth. 
PETASITES PALMATUS (Ait.) Gray. Very rare in the western 
counties. Seen by us only at one station in YARMouTH Co.: sphagnous 
thicket, Belleville. 
SENECIO AUREUS L. Very rare in the western counties; seen by us 
only at one station in YARMovTH Co.: sphangous thicket, Belleville. 
Lacruca Hirsuta Muhl. Widely dispersed but nowhere abundant 
in Yarmouth and Shelburne Cos. 
PRENANTHES NANA (Bigel) Torr. Yarmoutu Co: tur'y crests 
and slopes |f exposed headlands, Markland (Cape Forchu). 
HIERACIUM PANICULATUM L. Occasional from Yarmouth Co. 
eastward at least to Annapolis and Lunenburg Cos. 
**H. paniculatum x scabrum. A large colony exactly combining 
the characters of H. paniculatum and H. scabrum and more abundant 
than either of them, in dry pine and oak woods on steep slopes along 
Lahave River, Bridgewater, Lunenburg Co. 
MUSCARI COMOSUM IN OREGON. 
J. C. NELSON. 
By a rather startling coincidence, the discovery of Muscari como- 
sum (L.) Mill. in the East, as reported by Mr. Long in RHODORA 
24:17 ff. (1922), was simultaneous with its first appearance on the 
other side of the continent. Here also it was first brought to notice 
by a school pupil. The first specimens were brought to the botany 
class of the Salem High School in the first week of May, 1921, by 
Carter Keene. a farmer's son living about sixteen miles north of 
Salem. A hasty consultation of that invaluable manual, Gray's 
Field, Forest and Garden Botany led us to name it tentatively Muscari 
comosum—a determination afterwards kindly confirmed by Mr. 
Long, who was about the same time studying the material collected 
by him at Philadelphia. The “find” was so unexpected that a personal 
visit to confirm the details seemed in order, and I accordingly accom- 
panied young Keene to his home one Friday afternoon after school. 
The station in which the plant was growing was about 214 miles 
north of Waconda, Marion County, in the northwest corner of a 
field of some 90 acres belonging to the elder Keene. "This field had 
been sown to oats the previous season; in the fall the stubble had 
been plowed under and the ground left fallow for the following year. 
