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8oUdago memoralis, Ait. 

 Achillea millefoUum^ L. 

 Gnaphalium polycejphalnm, Mchx . 

 Leontodon autm7inale, L. 

 Taraxacum dens-leonis, Desf. 

 Lobelia injlata, L. 



Two or three specimens were seen of these : — 

 Solidago bicolor, L. 

 Maruta cotula, D. C. 

 Erecthites hieracifolia, Raf. 

 Gentiana crinita, Froel. 



Of six only single flowering specimens were observed : 

 Ranuncidus acris, L. 

 Sinapis nigra, L. 

 Viola sagittato , L. 

 Potent ilia argentea, L. 

 Aster dumosus, L. 

 Aster longifolius, Lam. 



Early this last summer Mrs. C. N. S. Horner called 

 my attention to a strange plant found somewhere in 

 Geoigetown, which proved to be an emigrant froiu West- 

 ern Eur()i)e, Hieracium aurantiacum, var. bicolor. Later 

 in the season, during a carriage ride, this plant was seen 

 to be very abundant at a place near East Templcton, 

 Worcester County, and also in Florida, Berkshire County, 

 along the main road over Hoosac Mountain. It thus 

 grows "in high pastures" here, as across the Atlantic. 

 Should it Honrish at lower altitudes it might prove another 

 of those beautiful but most troublesome weeds which the 

 Old World has so often sent us. If memory is correct, I 

 have seen this plant on the high ground of Mr. T. C. 

 Thurlow's Nursery, at West Newbury. 



Other interesting " finds," by that most observing bota- 



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