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Aqinlegia Canadensis, L., var, Phippenii. — Flowers salmon 

 colored, leaves lighter green; transplanted to the garden it 

 seeded freely and invariably produced its like. Discovered by 

 Mr, G. D. Phippen in a ravine in Salem pastures, about 1844. 

 Found again in the same locality by the present writer, 1875 and 

 by Mr. David Waters in 1880. A white variety was detected 

 by Mr. Abraham Bosson (1854) among red Columbines, but did 

 not prove hardy on being transplanted. (See '^ Notice of three 

 varieties of native Columbines,'' Proc. E. L Vol. I, 1856, p. 

 268). The ''Notice of three varieties of the native Columbines" 

 in the Essex Institute Proceedings of 1856 is by Rev. John L. 



Russell and possesses much interest. One was a double 

 flowered form, another the white variety which, transplanted to 

 a garden, perished "after growing two or three years," and the 

 third was the one above referred to. 



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Mr. Britton's description perfectly coincides with the speci- 

 mens in our herbarium and my recollection of them in the living 

 state. The fact that seeds ''produced their like" is of special 

 interest. As the plant was, so far as I knew, local and as Mr. 

 Phippen was its discoverer, and had made many interesting ex- 

 periments on this and other Columbines, I was led to connect 

 his name with the variety in the list of county plants. 



Since writing the above I have seen Mr. Phippen who says 

 that hundreds of seedlings of this peculiar variety have been 

 cultivated in his and his brother's gardens continuously for forty 

 years and more to the present time, and that watchfulness among 

 the numerous progeny for a more intense color became unneces- 

 sary, when at least ten years ago, his nephew, E. A. PhippeHf 

 brought home a root with pure yellow flowers from the same 

 locality '* Columbine Hill " which has continued to propagate it- 

 self and flowered freely the past year. 



Salem, April 9, 1888, John Robinson. 



[Prof Tenney's name, published in 1867, antedates the one 

 given the plant by Mr. Robinson. — EDS.] 



Saxifraga Virginiensis, Michx., var. pentadecandra, Sterns, 



A year ago I recorded in the Bulletin, (Vol. xiv, p. i-^)' 



the discovery near the east shore of Manhattan Island, about on 



