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State, although it is not unconnnon in Windham Co., Conn. It 

 Is cultiv^atcd in many of our gardens and from the pecuUar devel- 

 opment in its degradation, T am very well satisfied that the one 

 is a form of the other, for plants which were last year agreeable 

 to the description, ** glabrous throughout," ^'leaves partly clasp- 

 ing/' " filaments smooth," **filaments inserted upon the middle of 

 the tube," and therefore P, gigantcitm^ this year from the same 

 roots produce only such plants as have "sessile leaves," not 

 ^* clasping," which are ''pubescent and glaucous'' beneath — with 

 ''roughened filaments " upon the "uppermost portion'' of the 

 perianth. 



Tins is not the first time the impression has come to me con- 

 cerning this plant, that two forms of one species were counted as 

 two species, but I have had this season a better opportunity for 

 observation of the matter. James L. BENNETT. 



Brown University. 



A Handbook of the Mosses of Northeastern Ameriea. — Hav- 

 ing learned that the edition of Lcsqucreux and James* " Manual 

 of the Mosses of North America " is almost exhausted, and being 

 assured that there is, in the East, a demand for a smaller and 

 cheaper guide to the study of this group of plants, I have com- 

 menced the preparation of a work to bear the above title. The 

 book will be illustrated, and the geographical area will include 

 the northeastern and central States and eastern British America. 

 It is hoped that the manuscript and drawings may be completed 

 by the end of next year. ELIZABETH G. BrittoN. 



Note on the Eastward Extensuvi of Pcntstemon albidus, Null, 

 In April, 1890, undoubted specimens of P, albidus, Nutt. were 

 sent to the University of Minnesota, by Mr. L. M. Moycr, from 

 Montevideo In the upper Minnesota Valley. It appears to be 

 fairly abundant along the southern bluffs of the Minnesota River, 

 in Big Stone, Chippewa and Renville Counties, and is apparently 

 extending eastward along the valley. In this region P. graudi- 

 florus, Nutt. is remarkably prevalent on high ridges and the two 

 species occur together in the vicinity of Appleton. The range of 

 P. albidus as given in the 6th edition of Gray's Manual is " Plains, 

 Neb. to Dak. and Tex.," in Coulter's Manual of Rocky Mountain 



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Botany, the range is, "Plains from Dak. to Col. and Tex." In 



