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to England from Southern Europe in 1648. This doubtless gives 
the clue to its introduction into this country, where it has found a 
place in some old gardens, and has sparsely escaped into the 
fields. When Torrey and Gray published the first volume of the 
“Flora of North America” (1838-40), they were unable to ascer- 
tain its presence in a wild state in this country. Commenting on 
the similarity of P. recta L., and P. rigida Nutt., they remark, “Dr. 
Short has sent us specimens of P. recta, which occurs as a weed in 
his garden, but we do not learn that it is anywhere naturalized in 
the United States.”* Eaton and Wright, who issued their «‘ North 
American Botany” about the same time (1840), seem to indicate 
that it was naturalized, for they mention it, and do not separate it 
from other native species as an “ exotic,” as is their custom with 
cultivated plants of foreign origin, so that we may look upon it as_ 
gaining a foothold not far from that time. 
It is as yet rare and somewhat local, and not of wide range. 
That usually given is from New England to Northeastern Ohio. . 
It has been most frequently reported from Central and Western 
New York and the neighboring part of Ontario. Recently (1892) 
Messrs. Beal and Wheeler have recorded its presence in the south- ; 
castern part of Michigan in their «Catalogue of Michigan Plants. — 
It was not given in the previous edition issued in 1881. This 5 
the fathest west where I find mention of it. It is evidently 
moving westward, and the finding it generally by railroads and 
roadsides indicates the principal method of advance. . 
E. J. HILL. 
ENGLEwoop, ILL, 
Botanical Notes, 
Note on the Herbarium of Stephen Elliott—It will be of interest 
to botanists to know that the plants on which Elliott’s « Sketch of 
the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia,” published at Charles 
ton, S. C., from 1816 to 1824, is based, are preserved in the 
museum of the College of Charleston and are readily accessible 
to students. The collection is unmounted and is tied up in some 
thirty large volumes. It is in a moderately good state of preset 
* 1c, p. 440. 
