1923] Nye,—A New Station for Daphne 45 
Corallorrhiza maculata, and C. odontorhiza were all found in quantity; 
and about twenty-five plants were discovered of each of the following: 
Orchis spectabilis, Cypripedium pubescens, and Liparis Loeselii. 
Many other plants of interest were present, too, in greater or lesser 
abundance. Even to list them all would take far more space than 
the writer has at his disposal, but two or three should be placed on 
record: 
Botrychium ramosum and B. angustisegmentum were both found, 
several plants of the former. 
Cardamine parviflora was common in clefts of a limestone ledge. 
Aralia hispida, common on rocky slopes. 
Hepatica americana, which is now almost extinct in Rhode Island, 
was found in abundance. 
Specimens of all the above except Cypripedium pubescens and the 
last two species are in the author’s herbarium. 
A NEW STATION FOR DAPHNE. 
Harriet A. NYE. 
WHILE teaching in the town of Smithfield, in the southern part of 
Somerset County, last spring, my attention was attracted, early in 
April, by a shrub I had never before seen. It proved to be some- 
what puzzling to analyze, since I knew nothing of its leaves or fruit, 
but its resemblance to Dirca, which I found the year previous, assisted 
me in identifying it as Daphne Mezereum L., a plant which has been 
previously reported from but one other station in Maine (see RHODORA, 
Vol. XV, page 203). 
As it was obviously an introduced plant, I was at once interested 
to account for its presence here and surmised that it had become 
naturalized from plants originally set in a small cemetery on the 
hillside near by. Later investigation proved the surmise to have 
been correct. A Mr. Silas Hitchcock, whose death occurred in 
Massachusetts in 1867, was brought to this cemetery for burial and 
his widow planted this shrub upon his grave. It is now thoroughly 
established along the roadsides for some distance; I found one good 
clump of it about a third of a mile from the original plants, yet it 
can hardly be considered to have spread to such an extent as to 
become troublesome when it is remembered that it has been over 
fifty years since it was planted there. 
