1924] Holosteum umbellatum in Connecticut 199 
Law School in 1884. From this time and until incapacitated by 
serious illness in 1921 he practised law in Boston. A close observer, 
with keen interest in nature, he early took up botany as an avocation. 
In collaboration with the late John Howard Redfield of the Philadel- 
phia Academy of Natural Sciences he prepared a Flora of Mount 
Desert Island, published in 1894, a work of unusual merit among 
American local floras of its period. He was one of the founders of the 
New England Botanical Club and was by annual election its Corre- 
sponding Secretary from 1895 to 1921, performing the duties of the 
position with conscientious care and great loyalty to the society. His 
herbarium, chiefly of his own collection and representing the flora of 
Mount Desert in much detail, was given by him to the New England 
Botanical Club in 1914. It is hoped that a more extended notice of 
his life and botanical activities may be published in this journal. 
HoLOSTEUM UMBELLATUM IN CoNNEcTICUT.—Holosteum umbel- 
latum L. was listed by Miss Emily J. Leonard in her “Catalogue of 
the Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants found growing 
in Meriden, Connecticut" published in 1885, but was excluded in the 
later “Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Connecticut" 
issued in 1910, as no authentic specimens were to be found. 
In Gray's Manual the range of this introduced plant is given as 
“roadsides, fields, etc. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Georgia." 
On visiting the Hiti Nurseries at Pomfret, Connecticut on May 30, 
1924, I found that there were three annual weeds abundant all through 
the nursery, one of them being the Jagged Chickweed, Holosteum 
umbellatum, the others Draba verna and Sisymbrium Thalium.— 
Francis WELLES HUNNEWELL, Wellesley, Mass. 
On CITING RicHarpson’s BOTANICAL APPENDIX TO FRANKLIN'S 
First JouRNEY—lIn checking the date of publication of the original 
description of Crepis nana Richards., I found that the Index Kewensis 
cites Franklin’s Journey, App. ed. 2, p. 92, while W. J. Hooker (Fl. 
Bor.-Am. 1: 297) cites ibid. p. 29, and the reprint of Richardson’s 
Bot. App. to Franklin’s 1st Journey in the Library of Gray Herbarium 
gives Crepis nana on p. 18. The explanation of this confusion is found, 
first, in the fact that, within a year from the first printing, Richardson 
