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found to match exactly, in every particular, the originals of 
V. nodosa. A few days later, in a situation somewhat simi 
not far from the village of Marengo, Michigan, I saw it agai 
but inadvertently took no specimens. As to New England, there 
is a sheet in my herbarium from Charlotte, Vermont, collecte 
by Pringle, May, 1876, which I hold to be indubitable V. nodo: 
in petaliferous flower only. I also refer here Mr. Brainerd’s 
n. a from “ Rich Sard anig a small brook, northwest cora 5 
has the deltoid figure at all pronounced; and, if in the earlie 
ones the leaves are not, in the dry, so manifestly cucullate 
they ought to be for genuine V. nodosa, I can make allowance 
view of Mr. Brainerd’s well known carefulness to prepare th 
neatest and most beautiful of specimens. But for purposes ¢ 
study, where the question is one of leaves plane or lea 
cucullate, a oe placed in press less carefully is like to 
more u 
There are some plants from Quebec, by Mr. Macoun, tha 
think may belong here though I decline to mention num 
lest the reference of these to V. nodosa might some day be ie 8 
erroneous. 
