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LUDWIGIA ALTERNIFOLIA, L., var. LINEARIFOLIA, n. var. 

 Two or three feet high, divergently branched, the branches as- 

 cending. Leaves linear, elongated, 2'-4' long, i yi"-^' wide, 

 acute; flowers soHtary in the axils of the upper leaves or bracts, 

 yellow; sepals ovate-lanceolate acute, narrower than those of Z. 

 alternifolia \ branches and both sides of the leaves somewhat 

 pubescent. Petals apparently remaining on the plant longer than 

 those of L. alternifolia, which, as Dr. Millspaugh observes, com- 

 monly fall away when the plant is shocked. 



Appearing very distinct from typical L. alternifolia, but pre- 

 sumably but a variety of it. From the description it may be the 

 Rhexia linearifolia, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. vi. 2, said to come 

 from Carolina, 



Leontodon hirtus, L., long known from the ballast grounds of 

 the eastern seaports, is becoming more widely adventive. It has 

 recently been collected in Southern New Jersey by Dr. J. E. 

 Peters, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, by Mr. Geo. D. 

 Hulst, and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, by Prof Ma- 

 coun. It certainly claims recognition as an adventive plant. 



Popuhis Jieterophylla, L. Another locality for this rare tree 

 in the Middle States has been discovered by Rev. L. H. Light- 

 hipe, near Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., N. J. The stations now 

 known for it at the north, besides those given in my *' Catalogue 

 of Plants from New Jersey," and its somewhat wide distribution 

 on Staten Island, are Northport, Long Island, and Guilford, 

 Conn., as recorded by Professor Sargent in his Forestry Report 

 in the Tenth Census. 



Eriocaulon Kdrnicikaniun, Van Heurck et Muell. Arg. Obs. 

 Bot. loi (1870). This species does not appear to have been 

 alluded to by any American author. I know nothing more 

 about it than the description given by the above named authors. 

 The plant was collected in eastern Texas by Chas. Wright, and 

 is mentioned here only to call it to the attention of our botanists. 

 It can hardly be Drummond's No. 409 (second coll.), which I 

 take to be E. Benthami, Kunth., although without sufficient ex- 

 amination to warrant certainty. 



Cyperus phceocepJiahis, Griseb. Plant, Lorentz. 216 (1874), 

 may be reported from mountains between Mazatlan and Durango, 



