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Lcpidium Virginicum in Francia — L. Michelletti. (Nuovo Gior. 



Bot. ItaL April, 1890). 



Lepidimn Virginicttm^ first mentioned in France In the 

 Flora de France of Grenier and Godron (1848) as naturalized 

 in a single spot, the lazaretto of Bayonne, has spread in the 

 departments of Landes and Basses Pyrenees, where it is now 

 established in waste places and along railroads. 



Darracq, a pharmacist at Dax, unwilling to admit that a plant 

 so common should not be indigenous, made a new species of it, 

 L. viajiis. It has been compared with the American plant, and, as 

 they are identical, the new name has perforce been dropped. In 

 1881, on the banks of the Meurthe, near Nancy, a few specimens 

 of L. VirginiciiDi were found among grow^ths of jC. rudcralc and 

 two other adventive American plants a Gilia and Amsinckia ly- 

 copsioides. They lasted about ten years, and disappeared along 

 with the manufactory of flannel shirts, to which they probably 

 owed their origin in that place, as the wool used in the looms 

 (presumably brought from Chili) was cleaned in the river and 

 spread on its pebbly banks to dry. 



L. Virgiiiiciint disappeared with the rest of the foreigners, but 

 several years later was found again near Nancy, and with Poa 

 pocBoidcs and Salvia verticillata is spreading along the railroads. 



Ginothera biennis and O. ninricata are adventive on the banks 

 of the Moselle, and abundant there. A. M. V. 



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Geo. Vasey, (Proc. 



This Hst is compiled from the specimens collected during the 

 cruise of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. 



Mesocarptts plenrocarptis. W. J. Beak (Microscope, x. 172-174, 

 figs. I, 2, 3). 



Nezv or Noteworthy Species, VI IL Edward L, Greene. Pittonia, 

 ii. 100-106. 



Vancouveria parvijlora^ F. hexandra^ Greene, var. chrysaft- 

 tha, CeanotJnis vestitus, Saxifraga ledifolia, Parnassia Californica, 

 Selimivi eryngiifolinmy Sinni keterophyllum^ Mentzelia affinis, 

 Brickellia rhomhoidea^ Dozvningia inontana^ Eunaincs piilchellns^ 

 Aniarantns carnetts^ Juncics uncialis, and Sisyrinchittm Ehneri 

 are all described as new. 



