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PROF. J. S. NEWBERRY: 
DEAR Docror.—Miss E. Torrey brought me over yesterday 
some back numbers of the BULLETIN to look at. In the one for 
November, 1889, I find two papers (by E. L. Rand and } 
Redfield) on the most southern station yet found for Pznus 
Banksiana. Turning to BULLETIN, August, 1882, I read: ‘“ Ap- 
palachia for June contains a few notes on the flora of the White 
Mountain region, and the statement is made that Pinus Banks- 
tana has been detected on Welch Mountain (lat. 43° 55’ N. long. 
ie 3s Wy 
In Appalachia, June, 1882, J. H. Huntington writes (page 65): 
“There was also found on Welch Mountain the gray scrubpine, 
Pinus Banksiana. This is thought to be farther south than any 
point ‘where it has been previously seen.” 
The facts in the case are as follows: August 9, 188r, my 
sister, Miss Edith W. Cook, being on Welch Mountain, Thornton, 
Grafton Co., N. H., found sundry stunted specimens of Pinus 
Banksiana on the mountain top (2,500 or 2,600 ft. high). She 
brought to me some branches and some of the lop-sided cones: I 
sent specimens of the same to Prof. Huntington, who was 
Councillor of Natural History to the Appalachian Club for that 
year. He issued the notice given in the “ Appalachia ”’ of the 
following June (1882), whence it was copied into the BULLETIN 
for August, 1882. 
I know that botanists receive with difficulty the testimony of 
any eyes but their own; hence I sent specimen and cone to 
Prof. Huntington, who thus made the statement on his own posi- 
tive knowledge. My sister and myself have never seen the tree 
elsewhere. ‘ 
I enclose a little branch-end, and only wish I had one:of the 
characteristic cones to send. But I have only one left, and must 
keep that as a proof for the sceptical. 
Very truly yours, 
Lucia G. PycHowska. 
HOBOKEN, N. J., April 27, 1890. : 
