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with it for the possession of the soil. Frogaria vesca, L., occurs in 
the woods, and I was told of another variety with peculiar pink ber- 
‘ries, but saw none of the plants. 
I do not find mention of this var. of Fragaria in the latest edition 
of Gray’s Manual. Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 9, A. E. Brown. 
_ We take this interesting plant to be a var. alba of F. vesca, L. It 
is desirable to have more complete specimens of this and also of the 
pink berried form. The locality mentioned by Mrs. B. is “ Bennett’s 
z arm, 13th Pond, Warren Co., N. Y.” What is the color of the fo- 
liage, fresh and ripened, of F. vesca? Eps. 
‘4, Notes by I. H. Hall—On the 22nd of June, Mr. J. H. Redfield, 
Mr. C. F. Parker, and myself, took an excursion into the pine bar- 
rens of New Jersey, and found, about a mile and a half from Atco, 
a very large and unusual station of Helonias bullata, L. It grows 
there in clusters and singly, and, to all appearance, extends a long 
distance in the swamp, and exists in unlimited quantity. Mr. Parker, 
who is thoroughly conversant with most of the pine barren region, 
and’ probably with all the known stations of Helonias therein, has 
seen none at all comparable with this. Of course it was past flower. 
Near the same place we found Nymphea odorata, Ait., growing in 
wet or overflowed sphagnum, in a uniformly dwarfed state, the 
leaves being from two to three inches and a half in diameter and 
the flowers reduced in size to correspond. There was nothing un- 
symmetrical, imperfect, or unhealthy about the plants, however, and 
for a large space we saw none of the normal size. [This is Var. 
minor, Sims, and seems to be the prevailing form in the Pines. Eps. } 
We also found abundantly ; Anothera sinuata, L., Verbena angu- 
stifolia, Mehx., Danthonia sericea, Nutt., &e. Verbena angustifolia 
Ihave also found in abundance at Jamaica, L. 1., but not, by any - 
“means, as large or as flourishing as in the Pines. 
As to the state of advancement of vegetation at the time, we 
found Magnolia glauca rather past its perfection but with still plenty 
of fresh flowers and buds ; Kalmia latifolia and K. angustifolia rather 
past but very full flowered ; Andromeda Mariana well and fully out; 
A. ligustrina, out but a little behind the other ; Xerophyllum, rather 
past ; Calopogon and Pogonia ophioglossoides, in perfection, as well 
as Drosera lincaris and the various forms of Gnothera fruticosa. I 
found one lingering Leiophyllum in flower. 
55. New Stations,—Mentha rotundifolia, L., near Richmond village, 
Staten Island, on the road from New Dorp, Merriam.—Desmodium 
Viridiflorum, Beck, between East New Y ui the 
ing of Fresh Creek, and in an open bushy field half a mile nearer 
to Canarsie, Merriam.—Aretostaphylos Uva-ursi, Spreng., 
ork and Canarsie at the cross- 
‘and Polygala 
_— tmeiata, L., Tottenville, Staten Island, where also Diospyros Virginiana, = 
i ; : s quite 
grows in the thickets and groves q L eawhere in our vicinity. 
lentifully and apparent- 
ly een it es 
more spontaneously than I have 8 ifolia, Michx., are to be 
CW hem iridis, L., and Verbena angusti eating sates 
_ found near pant latter of the foot of the dolomite rocks. 
- —Tilia Americana. L., var. pubeseens, at Wading River, L. L, ooo 
Milla reeta, Willd., at the Ridge, near Middle Islands, £., 5. Miller. 
