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30 Aug., 1895, who also notes it ' ' infrequent. ' ' The fact that 

 Dr. Eames writes no specific name to the sheet indicates his 

 inability to refer this plant to A. cannabinum ; and this label 

 quite antedates the point of time when, by the publication of 

 my A. medium and A. album, in 1897, the botanists of New 

 York and New England became awakened to the fact that we 

 have here more apocynum species than the two that had been 

 known to I^innaeus. Dr. Eames' Stratford plant is certainly 

 A. littorale rather than A. album despite the consideration 

 that, like A. album, it may adapt itself to maritime situations. 

 One would like to know whether from the stream borders of 

 northern Connecticut this thing continues all the way down to 

 the sand beaches of Long Island Sound . One would like to 

 advise those botanical friends in Connecticut to a little more 

 boldness in investigating their flora, and that in a frame of 

 mind to admit the possibility that the newest edition of 

 Gray's Manual may fall short of an absolute finality as to mat- 

 ters of Connecticut botany. 



Another sheet before me which I can not label as other than 

 A . littorale will extend the range of the species to the shores 

 of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries in southern Penn- 

 sylvania. This was collected by Mr. Small ' ' Two miles north 

 of Wrightsville, York County," 7 July, 1890. It is not quite 

 typical, being somewhat too pale with bloom, and its pods are 

 thicker, longer, and much less divergent. To A. album, it is 

 farther still from being conformable ; and the truth will very 

 likely turn out to be that there is a considerable group of these 

 small, white-flowered littoral species. Mr. Fernald's n. 84 

 of the Maine Flora seems white-flowered, is smaller than A. 

 album, probably to be proven distinct, certainly far removed 

 from A. cannabinum. 



Apocynum arenarium. Akin to A. album, like it white- 

 flowered, but much taller, more sparingly branching, less 

 leafy, leaves much more distinctly and slenderly petiolate, of 

 thinner texture, their pattern more inclining to lanceolate ; all 

 the parts glabrous, not even the lower face of foliage very 



