130 J^'otice of Plants found in the vicinity of Boston, 



Art. III. JVo/ice of some Plants found in this vicinity, 

 By John Lewis Russell, Prof, of Botany to the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, &.c. 



Z/olium temulentum L. — An annual grass, of t\vo feet in 

 height, flowering in July. In a rye field on the farm of 

 Horace Ware, JNIarblehead. Beck's Botany of JS'orthern 

 and Jlliddle Stales, p. 417; Burnet's Oiillines, ^-c, p. 3G4; 

 fig. Torrey's Compendium, p. 65. (Not noticed in Big- 

 elow's third edition of Plants of Boston, nor in the Cata- 

 logue of Plants of jNIassachusetts.) 



Habenaria (O'rchis tridentata) Hooker. Beck. Darling- 

 ton's Flora, &c. 



Syn. O'rchis clavellata. Elliott's Sketches, ^'C. 



A small, greenish flowered orchis, flowering in July and 

 August. Found in a sphagnous swamp in Chelmsford, but 

 rare. (Not described in Florula Bostoniensis, third edition.) 



Salix pedicillaris P/i., (Salix vitellina L., Salix ^rinoides 

 Ph., growing together in a meadow, on the farm of Josiah 

 Fletcher, Chelmsford. 



Schwalbea americana JVilld. Specimens presented, one 

 from Hubbardston, Worcester Co., where it is abundant on 

 sandy fields. 



Ophioglossum vulgatum L. Several specimens of this cu- 

 rious little fern were found last summer, in Hingham, by ]Mr. 

 Leras, of that town, and subsequently by myself, in another 

 locality, four miles distant. (Not in Fl. Bostoniensis, third 

 edition.) 



Conferva flavescens? Roth. Common in ditches. IMarch. 

 Chelmsford. A most elegant aquatic plant, of the confer- 

 vales. 



Najas canadensis Mx. In ditches of peat meadows. 

 Chelmsford. 



Euchroma coccineacA^if^/., syn. Bartsia coccinea L. Very 

 common in meadows in Chelmsford. 



A beautiful yellow variety was frequently exhibited at the 

 flower exhibitions of the Middlesex Horticultural Society, at 

 Lowell, last spring, by Charles Brazer, being the Bartsirt 

 coccinea var pallens of Fiirsh. In this variety, the bractes 

 were of a bright sulphur yellow, instead of scarlet, the foliage 



