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Sagina apetala are not rare along the roadside, the latter 
usually accompanied by 77ssa rubra. On the dry knolls Liatris 
scariosa is rather common. Here and there are clumps of 
Triodia seslerioides, but usually near the shore. 
The brackish marshes furnish a long list of plants, only a few. 
of which can be mentioned here. Among them are Liparis 
Leseliz, (rare in only a single swamp, so far as known), and 
Utricularia clandestina, which is common but not often found 
in flower. It forms mats on the mud in the bogs, or, in one 
case, on the surface of a shallow fresh pond. Other char- 
acteristic inhabitants are CZnothera fruticosa, Poterium Cana- 
dense, and in the salt meadows, Gerardia maritima, Pluchea 
camphorata and Samolus Valerandi, var. floribundus, with here 
and there Salicornia mucronata. On the borders of one marsh 
asingle specimen of Habenaria ciliaris was found, and Cnicus 
Spinosissimus is an occasional find. 
In Stratford Hibiseus Moscheutos. is abundant, and on the 
sandy shore of a brackish pond Sabbatia stellaris, Aster tenut- 
folius and A. subulatus are common. 
Tissa marina is a common beach plant, and on the sand at 
Black Rock grows Diodia teres, with Polygonum articulatum, 
Triplasis purpurea, Aristida tuberculosa, Salicornia herbacea, A 
ambigua, and other characteristic beach plants. Scirpus pungens 
is present in two forms, well-marked by habit, though the writer 
has been unable to detect any difference in fruit. One is much 
stouter than the other, and forms much larger spikes, several in a 
cluster, while the other has one small one and looks quite different. 
The list given above might be indefinitely extended, but 
these are the most important finds. Of those mentioned several 
are not recorded in the Manual as occurring in New England. 
New California Plants. 
By S. B. PARISH. 
PSORALEA RIGIDA.—Erect, 1-2 ft. high, viscid above and 
sparsely villous with short black and white hairs intermingled ; 
leaves Pinnately 3-foliate, on inch long petioles; leaflets as 
long; Ovate-lanceolate, glabrous and rigid ; stipules lanceolate ; 
peduncles shorter. than the leaves, bearing a globose head, inch 
