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as authority. So also in Eaton and Wright's Botany (1840), 

 and Wood's Class-Book (1854). In Gray's Manual (1856) it 

 appears with an additional station, the entry being : " Wet mea- 

 dows near Philadelphia and Newton, Mass., C. J. Spi-agne." In 

 the fifth edition (1868) the range had been extended, as we read : 

 " Massachusetts to Virginia, rare." This is repeated in the sixth 

 edition (1889). In the Illustrated Flora (1897) the range is 

 still further extended. " Occasional from Massachusetts and 

 Virginia to Ohio." In Britton's Manual (1901) the range is 

 " Newf. to Mass., Va. and Mich." It had found a place in 

 Beal's Michigan Flora (1904) but was not in the preceding 

 catalogue of Beal and Wheeler (1892), the single station being 

 Detroit. In Kellerman and Werner's Catalogue of Ohio Plants 

 (1893) a single station is also mentioned, Painesville, near Lake 

 Erie, or just east of Cleveland. 



One cannot from these data make out more than a general 

 movement of the plant north and south, near the Atlantic coast, 

 or westward toward the interior, either from the original station 

 at Philadelphia or from other points of introduction along the 

 seaboard. I find it mentioned for New York in a report of the 

 State Cabinet of Natural History for 1865. The regent re- 

 porting on the topic refers to a previous list of Torrey, made in 

 1853, in which it does not appear, and says, that to his knowl- 

 edge it had been reported from no other place than the one men- 

 tioned, Flushing, Long Island. The authority for the station 

 was Mr. W. H. Leggett, who subsequently, as well as others, 

 gave additional localities for New York and vicinity, as I find re- 

 corded in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club from time 

 to time, up to 1889. One of these by Addison Brown mentions 

 it in 1879, among ballast plants,' as if a new introduction by such 

 means in that special case. 



Taking the rest of the state of New York, the plants of the 

 central and western parts are quite well represented in four cata- 

 logues or floras issued between 1865 and 1896. The first of these 

 isPaine's "Plants of Oneida County and Vicinity " (1865). That of 

 David F. Day, " The Native and Naturalized Plants of the City of 

 Buffalo and Vicinity" (1882), took in most of the territory west 



