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Mountain. I had the good fortune to find a few specimens of it 
this summer at Stockbridge, Mass. It was growing in rich, 
damp woods at the foot of Laurel Hill, and about thirty or forty 
feet from the southeast corner of Williams’ Academy. The 
specimens agree in all respects with Prof. Bailey’s description in 
the Revised Manual, except that the leaves are longer than the 
culm. CorRNELIUS L. SHEAR. 
Lespedeza striata (Thunb.), Hook. and Arn. The statement 
has been made that this plant was “accidentally introduced with 
imported goods from China into Charleston, S. C., about the 
year 1849.” It may have been thus introduced there, but I wish 
to put on record that it was collected by me in August, 1846, in 
Central Georgia, on the roadside, remote from dwellings, between 
Monticello and Madison. A specimen, now in the Harvard 
Herbarium, was sent to Dr. Gray, who did not then recognize it, 
Since that time it has multiplied exceedingly and spread over the 
Southern Atlantic States and extended northwestward into 
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri. In the east it is gradually 
creeping northward. It was collected in 1878 by Mr. Canby at 
Eastville on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and last year by 
Mr. Hollick near Norfolk, and by Dr. Brinton in Hanover County. 
This year I found it quite abundant on the Rappahannock above 
Fredericksburg, so that its arrival on the Potomac near Washing- 
ton may be soon looked for, if it be not there already. 
THos. C. PORTER. 
The California Botanical Club was organized March 7, 
1891, with the following officers: President, Dr. H. H. Behr; 
Vice-President, Mrs. Mary W. Kincaid ; Secretary, Frank H. 
Vaslit; Treasurer, Miss Agnes M. Manning; Librarian, Miss 
Caroline L. Hunt; Curator, Miss Kate Elliot ; Councillors, Mrs. 
C. E. Hansen, Mrs. M. J. McDonald, Dr. C. M. Blake. The 
charter roll, closed May 2d, contains ninety-nine signatures—an 
unusually strong beginning so far as numbers is concerned. The 
prominence of the gentler sex is an encouraging sign, judging 
from our own experience. A. H. 
Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Morgantown, W. Va., will issue a pre- 
liminary catalogue of the Flora of West Virginia the coming 
