120 Tne Botanical Gazette. [March, 
MyosoTis LAXA Lehm.—The range of this plant is given 
in the last edition of Gray’s Manual as ‘‘Newf. to N. Y.’ 
Specimens of a Myosotis sent for identification some years 
ago from Painesville, Ohio, led me to expect its presence 
wet places in northern Ohio.”® Last summer I found it in 
abundance in the wet ground bordering the Calumet river 
near Dune Park, Porter co., Ind. The discovery of this plant 
in a region that had been quite well explored botanically 
might indicate that it is an introduction. If a recent come! 
it had better be considered an escape from gardens, being 
cultivated for M. palustris, of which it has been made a Ve 
riety by some. Residents to whom the plant was shown called 
it Forget-me-not. But it is more probably a native that had 
been overlooked, like some others mentioned in this article. 
I have found it in the St. Lawrence basin by the Saguenay 
river, and its range in Canada is given by Macoun as fromte 
lower St. Lawrence to the vicinity of Buffalo, N. Y., so tht 
its connection with the eastern flora is not difficult to make 
out. ere is still much to learn about the details of the 
geographical distribution of some of the less common plants — 
and apparent gaps may yet be filled. 
CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS L. var. PUMILA Gray.—In 18934 
couple of small hackberries were found near Millers, Ind. 
They were nearly out of flower (June 6), but were identified 
as above. They grew near the shore of Lake Michigan, an 
being but three or four feet high they could not again be 
found in the wilderness of shrubs and shrubby oaks which 
characterized this section of the dune region. Last yeaf 
up with sand. Some of them were lar les of 
ge examp 
rita the largest stems three inches in diameter, and fil Fa 
eet long. Several ascending stems usually spring from t 
sub-spinous twigs two or three inches long. They are 40, 
by the winter-killing of the tips, so that the bush, especial! 
when str ipped of leaves, resembles a thorn-bush. The! 
1S so unlike that of the common hackberry, a tree not infte 
*Geology of Ohio 72: 112. [Botany.] 
