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Ward. Vasey and Kritton A: Small. From these omissions I infer that 

 their collections were not published or widely distributed. 



Professor Ward tells me that when he and Dr. Morong were approach 

 ing the "Chesapeake City" station, he remarked that "that is a regular 

 ranunculaceous pool." So it proved, for, besides />. hfderaceum they 

 collected Hntui<-ufnx puxiflu* and two other species. 



With these two limited areas for the adopted habitat of t his species it 

 was a surprise to Mr. W. M. Pollock and myself, on May (>, 11)00, to find 

 specimens bearing flowers and fruit, in a large swamp bordering the 

 Patuxent River at the mouth of its Western Branch, practically at the 

 head of navigation. There were two distinct patches of the plant, one 

 rather badly cut up by the passage of teams over a temporary farm 

 road. The patches were growing in standing water about two inches 

 deep, over a thin deposit of humus upon compact marl. 



In Britton & Brown's Illustrated Flora (Vol. II; 84) the season of flow 

 ering is given as "June to August." The plants cohectcd by Britton & 

 Small were barely in flower on May 26. Professor Ward's specimens 

 were barely in fruit on May 12. The plants from the new station were in 

 full bloom and ripe fruit. These fruits probably could not have matured 

 from flowers which were in anthesis later than the last week in ApriL 

 With this collection, then, the range is increased and the known period 

 of blossoming lengthened. 



Dr. Britton writes me that the habit of the plant at Virginia Beach 

 has led him to expect it elsewhere along tide-water areas. We shall in 

 terestedly await news of other stations. E. I,. J/^/v/.v, Dept. of Biology. 

 Washington High 



Change of name. 

 Baptisia confusa Pollard and Ball, nom. nov. 



B. Texana Pollard and Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 18:133. April <> r 

 1900. 



B. lanceolata texana Holzinger, Contr. U. S. Nat, Herb., 1:280. Oct. 

 31, 1893. Not B. Texana Buckley, Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila., 452. 1862. 



Through inadvertence, Mr. Holzinger's variety was elevated to specific 

 rank in ignorance of the fact that the name Texana was applied many 

 years ago by Buckley to another species. Our attention has been con 

 siderately called to the error by Dr. B. L. Robinson. Charle* Lou in /V- 

 ard, Carleton R. BalL 



