216 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ SEPTEMBER 
A NEWLY OBSERVED STATION FOR GAZINSOGA 
HISPIDA 
SOME time ago the writer’ called attention to the fact that besides 
Galinsoga parviflora Cav. and its var. hispida DC., another quite dis 
tinct species, G. Azspida Benth., had been found in the Atlantic states, 
occurring at Camden, New Jersey, where it was collected on waste lands 
by Mr. C. F. Parker. This species was again found last October by 
Mr. Howard Schriver at several points in Cumberland, Maryland. Mr. 
Schriver, noticing its differences from G. parviflora Cav., sent specimens 
to the U. S. National Museum, whence they were kindly forwarded t 
the writer by Dr. J. N. Rose. 
Mr. Schriver reports the plant as not only forming a large mass of 
vegetation (5 or 6 meters long) near a “ bonded warehouse” or sort 
of cattle depot, but also extending down the banks of an adjacent 
stream where individuals were scattered on steep cliffy slopes of Helder- 
berg limestone, even reaching the water’s edge. A sporadic specimen 
was also found on a country road not far away. While the presence in 
the neighborhood of the cattle yard, a railway, and a distillery would 
readily account for the introduction of plants from a distance, the — 
ent species in the luxuriance of its growth and tendency to spread = 
the indigenous vegetation would suggest that it has found congenial 
conditions and is likely to persist. The species is readily distinguished 
by its “pink” or “red” rays (drying purple) and by it short i 
which is about half the length of the achene. In foliage and ml 
copious spreading pubescence it resembles G. parvifiora, bho hispide 
DC., but both G. parviflora and its variety have white rays 
longer pappus (nearly or quite the length of the achene). 
As G. hispida Benth. is likely to be found at other static 
middle Atlantic states it may be worth while to cite its more impo 
synomymy, which is as follows: 
Vargasia caracasana T)C. Prodr. 5:676. 1836. 
Galinsoga hispida Benth. Bot. Sulph. 119. 1844- 
G. brachystephana Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Turic. 2. 184° pot. Fe 
G. caracasana Sch. Bip. Linnaea 34: 529; also Bull. Soc: : 
18:86. 1865.—B. L. Rosinson, Gray Herbarium. 
and much 
tations in the 
* Proc. Am. Acad. 29: 326. 
