108 LEAFLETS. 



repetition in some other locality of Mr. Andrews' very inter- 

 esting discovery. 



P. Novae Angliab, Greene, 1. c. 34. This was practically 

 founded on a single Massachusetts specimen, and that without 

 a word or hint on the label, as to either the habitat of the 

 plant, its height, or anything else that would have helped an 

 investigator; but the long petioles, the great size and thin 

 texture of the leaves, together with the absence of pubescence, 

 were characters precluding the idea of its being a state of P. 

 coccinea, or of any other recognized species, and so I had to 

 assign it specific rank. 



Mr. Andrews collected it from Lily Pond, Southington, 23 

 Sept., 1904, copiously ; and while the specimens were taken late 

 in the season and therefore exhibit a well matured foliage some- 

 what firmer in texture, and not quite so nearly glabrous, yet in 

 other points the type specimen is perfectly matched in not a few 

 of these; and the collector' s account of the strange habitat 

 and extraordinary dimensions of the species tends to confirm it 

 in the rank of a species. There were sent me, for study, 18 

 sheets of specimens, along with the following information : "All 

 these plants were growing in the water with upright stems, some 

 reclining upon bushes and attaining a height of 4 or 5 feet or 

 more, the bright flowers appearing at the top above the bushes, 

 some nearly 30 or 40 feet from the shore. There was no indica- 

 tion of floating stems or leaves. None were along the muddy 

 shore, but all were growing in the water. The pond is a natural 

 one, with no inlet or outlet, maintained by springs. Its waters 

 are clear, and vary but little in depth throughout the season." 



P. Haktwrightii (Gray), Greene, 1. c. 46, apparently to in- 

 clude P. abscissa, Greene, 1. c. Mr. Andrews makes several 

 collections of this, both in flower and sterile. The first of 

 these is from Cusent Lake, at Southington, which is said to be 

 " an artificial lake on trap soil," and the " plants grew in grass 

 land, but within reach of high water." The flowering speci- 

 mens are remarkable as being destitute of that rim to the ocrea 

 which has been supposed to mark most clearly P. Hartwrightii ; 



