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among scattered pines. This station was visited by Prof. Macoiin 
and Dr. Burgess in 1883, and described in a late number of the 
Botanical Gazette, It is not far from Dr. Howe's station at Wilmot, 
in the adjoining county. Other localities will probably be found in 
the western ]>art of Nova Scotia. 
Presque Isle, Me. 
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With regard to Mr, Redfield's most interesting paper on 
Corema^ I would note that there seems to be no doubt that Mr. S. 
W. Conrad did collect the plant at '* Pemberton's Mills, about twelve 
miles from Burlington, N. J.," for a specimen so ticketed is in the 
Torrey Herbarium. 
N. L. Bkitton. 
Besides the localities of Corema Conradii^ Torrey, re- 
corded by Mr. Redfield in the September number of the Bulle- 
tin, I can state that the plant grows in great abundance on 
the island of Nantucket, Mass., where I have known it for some 
twenty years. There are acres of it, as in Plymouth, occupying the 
ground to the exclusion of almost everything else. The plants are 
large, with their tops rounded, so that the surface of the bushes looks 
like an assemblage of green mounds of a conspicuous and pleasing 
regularity. The tops are two und three feet in diameter, all green 
and flourishing, but, underneath, the branches, large and small, are 
leafless and look very old. 
The plants bloom profusely the last of April or early in May, and 
the fruit when ripe falls off and covers the ground. From the 
activity of the ants amongst the little grains I have suspected that 
they made some use of them. 
The locality most easily reached is on the i?A/*Sconset road, from 
one to two miles from the edge of the town. 
Springfield, Mass. Maria L. Owen. 
Aromatic Leaves in Quercus rubra.— One warm morning early 
in August last, while exploring a grove surrounded on all sides by 
sakmarshes, in Sea View (Marshfield). my attention was attracted by 
a strong, almost hot, perfume. My two companions, coming to the 
spot a moment afterwards, noticed it also. 
A search by all three failed to reveal anything beneath the leaves 
on the ground or above them more fragrant than golden-rod, and 
tile few stalks of sweet golden-rod grew beyond the limits of this 
peculiar fragrance. 
The impression produced on our minds was so strong that about 
a fortnight afterwards two of us paid another visit to the marsh ex- 
pressly to investigate the odor. I fancied that it might prove to be 
a hidden plant oi Apios tuberosa, 3.s I had, in the meantime seen 
some in bloom, though not within a couple of miles of this place, 
^'^mding, after a thorough search, that there was no Aptos tuberosa or 
anything else to account for the perfume, and that I lost it when 
n^ore than six or eight feet distant from a certain oak-tree, it occurred 
to me to smell of the oak-leaves. I found that the fragrance pro- 
ceeded from them. I afterwards found another sweet-scented oak 
