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rifts in the Sandstone, are scarcely distinguishable from A. viride, 
and I suspect that 4. Brad/eyi may perhapsprove to bea stouter 
and more luxuriant southern form of A. viride. Since this idea 
has been forced upon my own mind, I have heard from General 
E. Kirby Smith, who has observed A. Bradleyi for some years 
on the western face of the Cumberland Plateau, near Sewanee, 
Tennessee, and who writes, “The difference between Bradley 
and viride is so slight they might be varieties.” 
R. M. MIDDLETON. 
Scabiosa (Succisa) australis, Wulf. On the 26th of Septem- 
ber of this year, I found this species growing in considerable pro- 
fusion on a wet road-side just north of South Mt., near Pittsfield, 
Mass. It was well established over a space of two rods in extent, 
spreading by its creeping roots. The first announcement of this 
recent comer to our Flora, was made in the Addenda to the new 
edition of Gray’s Manual, and I am informed by Dr. B. L. 
Robinson that Prof. Dudley had a few years ago sent specimens 
to the Harvard Herbarium from Farley’s Point, Cayuga Lake. 
reporting it as fully established there in low ground, and that in 
1889, Miss J. E. Whitside had found it growing in an old ceme- 
tery near Hammondsburg, Pa. The plant is a native of middle 
and southern Europe, and perhaps came to us in the same way as 
did Hieracium aurantiacum nearly twenty years ago, and will 
Probably get as firm a foothold as that has acquired. 
Oct. 8th, 1892. JOHN H. REDFIELD. 
Cleistogamy in Cerastium viscosum. Cerastium viscosum, | find 
equally cleistogene with C. nutans, which I have already reported 
in this connection. Our garden is kept so clear of “‘ weeds,” that 
Only one plant has been left for my observation. I suppose 
there is no reason why the same conditions should not exist in 
other plants at this season (Oct. 15th) asin this one. Having 
but the one plant I will deposit it in the Herbarium of the Acad- 
emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
. THOMAS MEEHAN. 
