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In or near Seeley's Notch we found the extremely rare cream- 

 colored spotted jewel- weed (Impatiens hi flora f. alhi flora) among 

 a patch of the normal form, the recently introduced Asiatic bristly 

 ladysthumb (Persicaria longisefa), the common water-pepper (Per- 

 sicaria hydropiper) and American germander (Teucrium cana- 

 dense), common beggar-ticks {Bidens frondosa) and purple- 

 stemmed swamp beggar-ticks (B. connata), white sweet-clover 

 (Melilotus alba), and northern star-grass {Hypoxis hirsuta). On 

 a dump at Fanwood was found in full fruit the Chinese lantern-plant 

 (Physalis alkekengi) and in the woods near the spot where the 

 whorled pogonia and moccasin-flower grow in such abundance was 

 the purple chokeberry (Aronia prunifolia) . In Wetumpka Notch we 

 saw the smooth ground-cherry (Physalis siibglabrata) and Virginia 

 wild-rye (Elymus virginicus), while in the fields and along the 

 roadsides in Washington Valley were thousands of specimens of 

 sheep's fescue {Festuca ovina), Pennsylvania ladysthumb (Persi- 

 caria pensylvanica) , common evening-primrose (Oenothera bien- 

 nis), black medic (Medicago lupulina), cow vetch (Vicia cracca) , 

 and the never-before-discovered Virginia beardgrass (Andropogon 

 virginicus). The purple-head sneezeweed (Helenium nudiflorum) 

 filled one meadow in great profusion, growing along with common 

 boneset, common trumpetweed. New York ironweed, arrowleaf 

 tear-thumb, hairy milkweed, and clustered beak-rush. In the woods 

 members of the party observed the large-bracted tick-trefoil (Des- 

 modium bracteosum) , few-flowered agrimony (Agrimonia parvi- 

 flora), woodland agrimony (A. rostellata), shin-leaf (Pyrola 

 elliptica), beach-drops (Epifagus virginiana), hairy hawkweed 

 (Hieracium gronovii), and white rattlesnake-root (Nabalus albus). 

 Both the large-flowered and the small-flowered sensitive-peas were 

 seen (Chamaecrista fasciculata and C. procumbens) and, in the open 

 sunny fields, vast beds of white heath aster (Aster ramosissimus) . 

 Other interesting plants included the tall thimbleweed (Anemone 

 virginiana) , creeping yellow water-cress (Radicula sylvestris) , two 

 species of purple gerardia, two species of false-foxglove, the dense 

 gayfeather, and the fringed gentian. Of interest also was the exami- 

 tion of many specimens of garden mock-orange (Philadelphus coro- 

 narius), scentless mock-orange (P. inodorus), and common nine- 

 bark (Physocarpus opulifolius) which have persisted for 20 or 

 more years without cultivation in a dense tangle of native vegetation. 



H. N. MOLDENKE 



