28 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
HYDROPHYLLUM. 
H. VIRGINIANUM L. Dedham (?) (E. H. Hitchings, September, 
1883). Purgatory Swamp, Norwood (N. T. Kidder, June 9, 1883); 
escaped in open woods, Milton (N. T. Kidder, June 20, 1917). 
PHACELIA. 
P. BRACHYLOBA Gray. Woolwaste, N. Chelmsford (W. P. Alcott, 
1878); S. Boston flats (C. E. Perkins, June 25, 1879). A waif from 
California. 
P. MAGELLANICA (Lam.) Cov. Woolwaste, N. Chelmsford (W. P. 
Alcott, 1878). Specimen in herb. Peabody Acad. Sci. Adventive from 
western America. 
P. minor (Harvey) Thell., var. WmrrLavia (Gray) Macbride. 
Woolwaste, N. Chelmsford (W. P. Alcott, 1878). Specimen in herb. 
Peabody Acad. Sci. A waif from California. 
P. TANACETIFOLIA Benth. Woolwaste, N. Chelmsford (W. P. 
Alcott, June 10, 1879); spontaneous in garden, Newton (Helen E. & 
F. W. Grigg, July 24, 1892). A waif from California or northward. 
[No specimen is available of Dr. 'T. Morong's P. congesta Hook. 
reported from Cambridge in Dame & Collins, Fl. Middlesex Co. 76, 
1888.] 
BORAGINACEAE. 
AMSINCKIA. 
A. BARBATA Greene. (A. intermedia Fisch. & Meyer in Dame & 
Collins, Fl. Middlesex Co., 75, 1888. See J. F. Macbride, in RHODORA, 
xviii. 27, 1916.) Chase's woolen mill, Lowell (Miss M. Swan, June 
30, 1880). Specimen in herb. N. E. Botanical Club. Adventive 
from Pacific coast. 
A. DovGrasraNA DC. Woolwaste, N. Chelmsford (W. P. Alcott, 
1878). Specimen in herb. Peabody Acad. Sci. Native of California. 
A. Menzirsit (Lehm.) Nels. & Macbride. Abandoned henyard, 
Sherborn (Miss M. L. Loomis, June 10, 1919). Specimen in herb. 
Gray. Native of western United States and adjacent Canada. 
ANCHUSA. 
A. AZUREA Mill. (A. italica Retz.) Vacant lot near South Ferry, 
E. Boston (Dr. Franklin Dexter, July 28, 1917; July 15, 1918). “In 
1917 the field wag blue with it. In 1918 the field was yellow with 
