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SHORTER NOTES 



ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF THE PRIBILOF 

 ISLANDS 



W. L. McAtee 



Although considerable collecting has been done, nothing has 

 been published on the flora of these islands since 1899. (Macoun, 

 J. M., in The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North 

 Pacific Ocean, Pt. 3, pp. 559-587, Pis. 87-94). Many of the 

 plants subsequently collected have passed through the writer's 

 hands but of them only Carex incurva Lightfobt (identified by 

 J. M. Macoun) is an addition to the list. Specimens were 

 obtained from sandy ground on the east side of the salt lagoon, 

 St. Paul I^sland, in 1913 by E. G. and A. G. Whitney, and are 

 now in the U. S. National Herbarium. 



In stomachs of teal (Nettion) collected on St. Paul in August 

 1914, were seeds and foliage of Potamogeton filiformis Persoon, 

 another addition to the flora. These birds were breeding and 

 therefore resident on the island and the plant is one easily 

 overlooked among other aquatic vegetation. 



The third species I would mention, Menyanthes trifoUata L., 

 is a plant that would hardly be missed, so it may not actually 

 grow on the islands. However, it is of interest to note that 

 the seeds were found in a number of stomachs of shorebirds 

 collected on the islands notably in one of a northern phalarope 

 obtained on St. George, Aug. 5, 1920. The seeds may simply 

 have drifted there, a fact of interest in itself, or it is possible 

 that the plant is established on the islands. 



SCIRPUS PEDICELLATUS IN NEW JERSEY 



Edwin B. Bartram 



While exploring some marshes along the Delaware River in 

 Sussex Co., New Jersey, early in July 1918, my attention was 

 actively drawn to a colony of Scirpus confined to a wet, partly 

 shaded opening in the edge of a patch of woods. The plants 

 evidently belonged to the group of which S. cyperiniis (L) 

 Kunth is our common representative, but they were fully 

 matured with ripe achenes hanging in the tangled pale brown 



