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Jasione montana in New England. 
In the summer of 1894 a fragment of a plant was handed to 
me by Mr. J. T. Smith, who collected it the year previous (July, 
1893), while wheeling along the old West road on Conanicut 
Island, R. I., where, as he said, it grew in “ great profusion.” The 
specimen was so fragmentary that little attempt was made to de- 
termine its name, but it was laid aside with the data to await future 
collections or information. 
Early in July, 1895,a complete plant of the same was sent from 
Conanicut Park by Mrs. H. R. Teel, with a request for its name. 
It proved to be the European Sheeps’s-bit (Fasione montana L.). 
Early in August (1895) I visited the island and walked the whole 
length of the West road, from the north end of the island to the 
village of Jamestown. From observations on this walk, and from 
information furnished by Mrs. Teel, who has resided on the island 
for more than a dozen summers, I learned that the plants have 
been growing for at least five years, at a station about 114 miles 
southwest of the Conanicut Park Hotel, where, at the time of my 
visit, it gave a decided blue tinge to several acres of fields and 
sandy roadsides. The field where it was most abundent showed 
signs of having once been cultivated, but not very recently. 
It is reported to grow sparingly on the East road about a mile 
from the above mentioned station, and the specimen sent by Mrs. 
Teel was from the East road about one-fourth mile south of the hotel, 
Specimens have also been collected by A. Green, Esq., Mrs. S. O. 
Metcalf and others, at the West road station. Mr. Greenman of 
the Gray Herbarium writes that it was reported to them from > 
Reading, Mass., in 1891 by Mr. W. H. Manning. The last men- 
tioned botanist informs me that a few plants only were noticed, 
growing with i/ago minima, between rows of young nursery stock 
imported from France, but he believes it did not appear the next 
year. He has an idea that it is growing on the Boston Back Bay 
Fens, but is not sure. According to Prof. Britton it has been 
collected on ballast grounds on New York Island, as shown by 
specimens in Columbia University Herbarium. 
Perhaps some readers of the BULLETIN can add to this record. — 
If so, the writer would be pleased to hear from them. Can any- 
