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HYBRIDS. 
Q. alba L. X bicolor Willd. A natural tree growing in Franklin 
Park, Roxbury (J. G. Jack, 1895-1904). 
Q. alba L. X Prinus L. A non-fruiting tree grows in Concord on 
the estate of Wm. Brewster, in the edge of woods by a wet run. This 
tree Mr. A. Rehder tentatively pronounces to be the above hybrid, 
but fruit is needed for absolute determination. 
Q. ilicifolia Wang. X velutina Lam. Top of Blue Hill (A. 
Rehder, September, 1900). See Ruopora iii. 137, 1901. 
C. H. KNOWLTON | Committee on 
WALTER DEANE Local Flora. 
THE ORIGINAL FLORA OF THE OLD COLONY. 
CLARENCE H. KNOWLTON. 
THOREAU’S frequent quotations in “Cape Cod," have led me to 
the book called * Mourt's Relation," a diary of early events in Ply- 
mouth colony, probably written by William Bradford and Edward 
Winslow. The floral notes seem to me more likely from Winslow’s 
pen, for Bradford’s own history scarcely mentions a plant, while 
Winslow on his trip to see Massasoit, and in a letter home to England, 
writes rather fully of what grew in the new country. The book is 
well worth reading, for about it still lingers “the charm of Sixteenth 
Century prose,” and the events of the early years at Plymouth are 
exceedingly interesting. It was published in London in 1622, and 
there have been several reprints. It has seemed worth while to me 
to collate the notes on the flora of southeastern Massachusetts for 
the benefit of Rnopona readers. 
“Upon the 9th of November following, by break of the day, we 
espied land, which we deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it 
proved. And theappearance of it much comforted us, especially seeing 
so goodly a land and wooded to the brink of the sea....And upon 
the 11th of November we came to an anchor in the bay [Province- 
