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the Apilobium coloratum of that list is now generally referred to E. 
adenocaulon, Haussk. The present list is probably not complete. 
Joun H. REDFIELD. 
Montia fontana, L.—This diminutive Portulaceous plant, 
though widely distributed in the colder and temperate regions of 
both hemispheres, has not hitherto been noticed within the limits 
of our Atlantic States. It has been seen near Halifax, Nova 
_ Scotia, and Shediac, New Brunswick, and thence northerly. 
On the 5th of July last it was detected by Mr. Edward L. 
Rand, near the eastern shore of Great Cranberry island, two miles 
south of Mt. Desert, Maine. Fresh from the study of Mr. Rand’s 
specimens, I found it on the 17th of the same month, at two lo- 
calities upon South Duck island, ten miles south of Mt. Desert. 
Careful search will doubtless reveal other localities on the Maine 
coast. 
Joun H. REDFIELD. 
Su Alcune Briofite Fossil. U. Brizi (Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. ii. 369- 
373, 1893). A list is given of twenty-four species of mosses, of 
which eighteen are still living near Rome; two are new, A/Ayn- 
chostegium orthophyllum and Dicranum Clericti. From the variety 
of habitats of the different species, the author concludes that they 
must have collected in some slow stream and been imbedded 
there. ‘hey are so well preserved that even the cell structure of 
the leaves is visible. E...G..B. 
Solanum eleagnifolium, forma albiflorum—Corolla white. I 
found six or seven plants of this pretty form at El Paso, Texas, 
growing close together—probably seedlings from one plant. The 
ordinary form of the spécies was abundant close by, but not mixed 
with the white-flowered ones. The color of the corolla in 
Solanum is well known to vary from violet or purple to white (as 
in the common potato), but it is interesting to notice how the 
white corolla may become a specific character (as in S. igus), 
in which case it rarely varies to purple. S. xigrum is one of the 
_-commonest plants in England; and I never saw one with the 
‘flowers other than white; yet Coulter (Bot. Rocky Mtn. Reg. P- 
268) refers to a bluish form. Similarly, S. ¢riflorum, which iL 8 
_ found. commonly in Colorado, had always white flowers in my 
