234 The Botanical Gazette. [April 
In every case it grew in moist alluvial soil and was unaccompanied by 
either Ellisia nyctelea or Phacelia parviflora, between which P. Couillei 
has been supposed by some to be a hybrid. It is apparently the only 
eastern Phacelia with a campanulate corolla; and this circumstance, 
together with the fact that it has the aspect of Ellisia and the capsule 
of Phacelia, no doubt suggested the theory of possible hybridization. 
PERILLA FRUTESCENS (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 277. 1894. 
Ocimum frutescens L., Sp. Pl. 597. 1753- 
Perilla ocimoides L., Gen. Pl. Ed. 6, Add. 578. 1764. 
This Asiatic mint is reported in the last edition of Gray’s Manual! 
on the authority of Schneck, as growing about dwellings and road- 
sides in southern Illinois. It had been collected by Professor Lester 
F. Ward at Crystal Spring in the District of Columbia, and is in- 
cluded in the “Catalogue of the Plants of the District”? though re 
ferred with hesitation to Bentham’s variety cv7spfa* which is a mete 
garden form. Additional specimens have been examined in the Her- 
barium of Columbia College collected at scattered points in New 
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Georgia and Mis 
souri. On October 28, 1895, Mr. L. H. Dewey and the writer came 
most unexpectedly on the plant growing in a large patch on the 
border of some woods near Waterloo Station, Alexandria Co., Va. It 
was then in good fruiting condition and easily identifiable. 
Cassia MULTIPINNATA Nasuu Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club. 22: 515, 1895: 
Since the publication of Florida cassias, specimens hare 
been received from Miss Josephine Skehan, collected the past sum 
mer at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which are undoubtedly referable 
the above variety, having all the characters of C. mu/tipinnata, 
ing of low, diffuse habit. The plant may very probably occur ® 
Poun points along the Gulf coast, both in the typical and the varie 
orm‘. 
LIMNANTHEMUM NyMPHOIDES Hoffmg. & Link, Fl. Port. 1: 3# 
1809.—This plant, together with Trapa natans, has become S? thor- 
oughly naturalized in ponds of the U.S. Fish Commission in Wash- 
ington that it covers the surface of the water and has spread into sev- 
eral adjacent pools. In October a beautiful sight is presented P 
the multitude of yellow blossoms open in the sunlight. 
ee os Open in the sunlight ae 
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*Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 22: 104. 1881. 
‘Since the ab At issippi Agric” 
€ above was written, Prof. S. M. Tracy, of the Mississ! is 
tural Experiment Station, has sent me a complete representation of the in the 
Srowing in that state, from which it appears that both C. multipinnala 
