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RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE LOCAL FLORA GARDEN 
The completion of the path along the Flatbush Avenue 
border mound has made possible the cultivation of a large num- 
ber of woodland and northern plants not easily grown in open 
situations. The summer sun at the Garden is intense, and most 
of the shade-inhabiting species will not grow without some pro- 
tection from it. As described in the April number of the 
RECORD, a place has been prepared for such plants and the 
Garden has been fortunate in getting a promising nucleus of 
a shade collection. 
This has been made possible largely through the efforts of 
Mrs. C. S. Phelps of Salisbury, Conn., a discriminating botanist 
and an excellent collector of living plants. The region about 
Salisbury is a peculiarly rich one botanically. Situated in the 
northwestern corner of Connecticut, it is the southern outpost of 
many northern plants which come down through the Berkshires, 
and frequently find their southern limit of distribution in 
northern Litchfield county. 
It would be impossible to note all the plants which have 
been collected by Mrs. Phelps, but a few are here worthy of 
note, either because of their rarity or on account of their limited 
distribution within the local flora range.* 
Among the rarest and most interesting acquisition is the 
small Bishop’s cap (Mitella nuda). ‘This is much smaller than 
the common Mitella diphylla, and has been collected within the 
range prescribed above only at Salisbury, Conn., and in the 
mountains of Pennsylvania. It grows in moist, cool woods, and 
our border path is the only place in which we can hope to make 
this rare little saxifrage grow. In similar situations, and nearly 
as rare, is the creeping Snowberry (Chiogenes hispidula). ‘This 
prostrate little creeper, with tiny white flowers and snow-white 
*The local flora range, from any Me of which plants may be col- 
lected for the wild flower section of t arden, is as follow AIL of 
the State of Connecticut; in New York fe en ties bordering the Hudso 
r up to and including Colum a an reene, also Sullivan and 
Delaware eeniies: ee all of Long Island; pal of New Je ceo mand! 
Pennsylvania, ike, ne, Monroe, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Nor ees 
Lehigh, Carbon, Bennet * Schuylkill, ME sateontery, Philadelphia, Ses 
and Chester counties 
