158 (t(iii)'(iI \^<iti,^. 



Ward, Vasey and J>ritton iV; Small. From these omissions I inler 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 i^ool." So it proved, for, besides />\ Itcdtritccum they 

 collected RanuncHliiK piixillm^ and two other species. 



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

 was a surprise to Mr. W. M. Pollock and myself, on May G, 1900, to find 

 siaecimens bearing flowers and fruit, in a lai-ge swamp bordering the 

 Patuxent River at the mouth of its AVestern 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 llow- 

 ering is given as ",lune to August." The plants collected by Britton A: 

 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. 

 WMth 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- 

 tere.stedly await news of other stations. — E. L. Morris, Dcpf. of Biohigy^ 

 Wi(.s/iiit(jfoN ITiyJi Schools. 



Change of name. 

 Baptisia confusa Pollard and Ball, nom. nov. 



n. Ti-.vono Pollard and Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. AVash.. i:!:i;;:',. April (i. 

 1900. 



B. lonceolatu te.r/ntu Holzinger, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 1:280. Oct. 

 ai, 1893. Not B. Texana Buckley, Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila., 452. 18(52. 



Through inadvertence, Mr. Hol/inger's variety was elevated to specific 

 rank in ignorance of the fact that the name Te.vana 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.~r7/r^//,.s- l.iuiix Poh 

 aril, Carh'ton It. Ball. 



