289 NEW AND RARE PLANTS—SOMERS. 
specimen. Miss Gossip has kindly engaged to seek for the 
plant in the same locality during next season, and I think it a 
commendable object for others to seek for the same in other 
localities. Imay say for myself that in my botanical excursions, 
extending over several years, I never found a white specimen of 
C. acaule. 
I here present you an unusually large specimen of ground-nut, 
kindly sent me by Mrs. W. Stairs; it was dug up in her garden, 
weighed 30z. when fresh, measures six and one half inches 
around its smallest diameter and 8 inches in its larger. The 
plant producing this tuber grows abundantly in the Southern 
and Middle States, is a tavorite food of hogs and burrowing 
rodents. I think it is not indigenous with us. The remarkable 
thing about our specimen is its size. As it is edible, it has been 
sometimes proposed. to cultivate it like the sweet potato. It 
belongs to the Leguminaceze. Linnzeus nained it Glycin Apios, but 
American botanists have named it Apios tuberosa, erecting it 
into a new genus, 
It is cheering to us in our work to find ladies coming 
forward to aid in any department of it, and the least we can 
do.is to encourage their good will, and endeavour to attach any 
who may feel inelined to the work of the Institute. 
I found, during last September, Solidago sempervirens L. grow- 
ing very abundantly and well developed on the borders of the salt 
marsh a little back from Navy Island Cove, Bedford Basin, 
leaves dark green, smooth stems, fleshy, broadly lancioiate 
slightly clasping heads, dense flows, beautiful golden yellow. I 
don’t remember of its being mentioned in our list, 1 have not had 
time to look. I will here record also the finding of Polygala 
Sanguinea L. growing in moderate abundance in the dry soil 
covering a ledge of clay slate exterior, running from the swamp 
back of Block-House Pond through George Deal’s farm to the 
old Marg. Bay Road ; the only locality, so far as I know, where 
itis found hereabouts. It has not been reported from other places 
in the province ; whether this. is its original site, or that it has 
been brought here in an extraneous manner, I am not prepared 
to: say. 
J.S, 
