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^P- 553' 1901 and 1907), gives the same distribution, though 

 in the appendix of the second edition, he admits A. Jesitpi as 

 a species. In the second edition of the Illustrated Flora (2: 

 381, 1913), the distribution is corrected, reading: "Known 

 only from rocky ledges of the Winooski River, Vermont, station 

 now obliterated and the species extinct, unless inhabiting some 

 undiscovered locality." 



In the Flora of Vermont by Brainerd, Jones and Eggleston (p. 

 54, 1900), the following remarks are found: "On limestone 

 rocks, near High Bridge, Winooski River, Burlington. This, the 

 only station in Vermont,^ was destroyed in 1894 by the set back 

 of the dam of the Vermont Electric Power Company." This 

 was repeated verbatim in Eggleston, Kirk and Underwood's 

 Flora of Vermont (Vermont Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 187: 217, 



1915)- 



In her Flora of Burlington and Vicinity, Nellie F. Flynn 

 (P- 53) 191 1) made a similar statement: "On limestone rocks, 

 Winooski Gorge (Robbins). This, the only known station in 

 Vermont, was destroyed in 1894 when the new dam flooded the 

 rocks." 



The writer takes the liberty to cite the following from a letter 

 received from Mr. Eggleston. "The statement in the two 

 editions of the Vermont Flora and Mrs. Flynn's Flora covers 

 the situation of Astragalus Robbinsii." "L. R. Jones with his 

 students searched carefully for other localities and found none." 

 " C. G. Pr ingle rediscovered the station some time in the seventies 

 and he knew only the locality in the base of Colchester Gorge, 

 where Jones and I collected it later. Wrong interpretations of 

 the labels of earlier collections are to blame for the idea that 

 Astragalus Robbinsii was found outside the gorge." 



The history of the plant may also be traced from specimens 

 in herbaria. My research in this line has been limited to the 

 herbaria of The New York Botanical Garden, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, Harvard University, and the New England Botanical 

 Club. I have written to the University of Vermont at Burlington 

 during the summer vacation but have not yet received any 

 answer. All specimens of the true Phaca or Astragalus Robbinsii 

 seen are labelled, "Near Burlington," "Colchester," "High 



' They could just as well have left out the words "in Vermont," for it has 

 never been found elsewhere. 



