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Notes on Mertensia Virginica DC— In the Bulletin for May, 
1880, I announced my discovery of M. Virginica as indigenous to 
New Jersey, it being plentiful on the bank of Crossick*s Creek, 
near the mill at Walnford in Monmouth County. The plant has been 
long established, and is found in various places along the stream for 
a mile or two north and south of Walnford. I have to announce a 
new and richer station for this plant on the Raritan River in Somer- 
set County, having received from Miss Sarah E. Veghte an elegant 
specimen of it. She writes: " This flower is found in great abun- 
dance in many places along the Raritan River. This specimen was 
taken from woods about one mile and a half west of the village of 
Raritan, opposite the summer residence of Secretary Frelinghuysen." 
Abnormal form, — Three years ago I transferred some good roots 
from Walnford to my garden, but not until last spring did they 
bear any perfect flowers, and then not in their wild profusion, nor 
did they mature any seeds. One of the plants gave flowers nearly 
every one of which was prettily abnormaL Instead of the normal 
form, on the smooth tube of the flower several wart-like bosses or 
spurs were developed. Some of the flowers had five of these protu- 
berances, according with the pentamerous mouth of the tnmipet. The 
very effect was odd, but decidedly pretty. I hoped to get seeds in 
order if possible to perpetuate the form, but failed. I should add 
that the outer sides of the long throat or tube of the abnormal flowers 
were as many-sided as there were bosses, 
Samuel Lockwood. 
Mertensia Virginica. — Apropos of Dr. Lockwood's note, I_ would 
state that the Virginian cowslip is represented in the herbarium of 
the Philadelphia Academy by specimens from *' meadows between 
Bordentown and Lamberton." Mr. A. C. Apgar reports it from 
Somerville and Raritan, and Miss Veghte, of South Branch, states 
that it grows plentifully along the Raritan in Somerset County. It 
therefore seems quite certain that it is indigenous to New Jersey. 
N. L. Brixton. 
Note on Some New Species of Grasses. — In the January number 
of the Bulletin (1884), under the article New North American 
Grasses, three species of Boutelona are described, viz : B. trifida, 
Thurb., B. Burkii, Scribn., and B, Havardi, Vasey--which were 
characterized and published by Mr. Sereno Watson in his list of 
Palmer's plants in Vol. xviii. of the Proceedings of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, issued August 15th, 1883. 
In justice to myself I wish to state that my article in the Bul- 
letin was written in April, 1883. and was placed in the hands of the 
editor May 2 2d following. 
ary Bulletin, is certainly the i 
^oi6 Schaffner, referred by Mr. 
Janu- 
saiiie as No. 751 Bourgeau and No. 
, by Mr. Watson in his list of Palmer's plants 
^"^ B.prostraiall.^^, (b. humile, HBK.) 
F. Lamson Scrihner. 
