324 The Botanical Gazette. [July, 
with narrowly triangular or lanceolate segments: scapes glabrous or 
very sparingly pubescent above, bearing small heads scarcely an inch 
across: involucral bracts glaucous, the outer lanceolate, 3-5 lines long, 
horizontally spreading or sub-erect, one or two with a corniculate ap- 
pendage below the tip; the inner bracts linear, 6-9 lines long, nearly 
all with a corniculate appendage ¥% line or so below the whitish tip: 
flowers 70-80, sulphur-yellow, the outer ligules conspicuously pur- 
plish without: achenes spindle shaped, bright red or reddish brown, 
the body 1 ¥% lines long, sharply muricate above, gradually contracted 
to a narrowly-conical apex ¥ line long; the filiform beak barely twice 
the length of the achene, and with the pappus dirty white: fruiting re- 
ceptacle rarely more than ¥ inch broad.—In dry or rocky places, 
Hartford, Maine, 1886 (J. C. Parlin); northwestern Hancock county, 
Maine, June, 1892 (C. G. Atkins); Waverly, Mass., May, 1894 (N. T- 
Kidder and others); Wilton, Maine, August, 1894 (M. L. Fernald); 
Lexington and Winchester, Mass., May, 1895 (E. F. Williams, A. S. 
Higgins and M. L. Fernald); Kennebunkport, Maine, May, 1895 (W. 
H. Manning and M. L. Fernald); and Cambridge, Mass. 
The species seems well distinguished from 7. officinale, which has 
larger and less cut leaves; larger, orange-yellow heads, with many more 
flowers (the specimens examined show from 170-199 in a head); in- 
volucral bracts larger, not glaucous, the outer conspicuously reflexed, 
and rarely with corniculate appendages; receptacle broader; achenes 
broader, less tapering above, olive green or greenish brown; the beak 
two or three times as long as the achene, and the pappus a purer 
white—MeErritr Lynpon FERNALD, Cambridge, Mass. 
Gilbreth Botanical Collection One of the most valuable and in- 
teresting gifts which have recently been presented to Radcliffe Col- 
lege is that of Mrs. Martha Bunker Gilbreth of Brookline, consisting 
of the botanical collections made by her daughter, Miss Mary E. Gil- 
breth, who died not long since. On the occasion of the formal pre- 
sentation of the gift to the college—an occasion which drew together 
a large number of instructors, and representatives of the College Club, 
Idler Club, Home and Field Club, and other societies of which Miss 
Gilbreth was a member when she was a student in the college—Pro- 
fessor George L. Goodale, who made the presentation address, de- 
scribed the-extent and value of Miss Gilbreth’s collection and the re- 
lation which part of it bears to the great scientific problems of the 
time, and the light it throws upon them, prefacing his statement with 
a brief account of her life. 
The part of her collection specially referred to by Professor Good- 
ale is that illustrating the dissemination of plants by means of their 
peeds, . 
