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the Saltonstall Range. Epigcea repens, which thirty years ago 

 grew along the eastern portion of Oyster Point, is not quite exter- 

 minated at Wintergreen Falls, is found in moderate abundance on 

 the "banks of Woodbridge Glen, and is still so plentiful in a glen 

 on the eastern borders of Bethany, as to give its name to Epigcea 

 Ravine. The walking-leal", which Dr. Ives told me once grew in 

 Grove street and on East Rock, has gone from those places, hut is 

 found on serpentine rocks in Orange, and in considerable quantity 

 in Roaring Brook. These are plants apparently destined to extinc- 

 tion in our near vicinity. 



Species undoubtedly once here, but already destroyed are Galla 

 palustris, Podophyllum peltatum^ Aralia quinquefolia, Aristo- 

 lochia Serpentaria. Two of these, the mandrake and the snake- 

 root remained "within five miles of Yale College" even till my 

 day, but have now entirely disappeared. Cornus Canadensis still 

 grows even within the city limits, but where shall our successors 

 find it ? 



On the other hand the number of introduced weeds is increas- 

 ing, as it naturally would with increasing commerce and facilities 

 for travel. Lepidium campestre was first observed only twelve 

 years ago, and Argemone Mexicana only last summer. 



The radius of thirty miles takes in a considerable portion of the 

 northern shore of Long Island, where there resides a most indus- 

 trious Botanist, Mr. Elihu S. Miller. lie has furnished the names, 

 ;ind in most cases the specimens too, of over an hundred plants 

 which have not been found in Connecticut, among them eight 

 Uiricularias, Ghrysopsis falcata, Ckrysopsis Mariana, Leucotho'6 

 racnnona, Sti/los<(nthes elatior, Spiranthes simplex and Potamo- 

 geton pulcher. He also restores Drosera filiformis to our Cat- 

 alogue, though, of course, not as a Connecticut plant. Certain 

 genera which are common enough in New Haven County are 

 absent from Mr. Miller's list; among them Actcea, Ulmus, 



Trillium^ Wrythronium^ Qorydalis^ Dicentra, Claytonia and San- 

 guinaria. 



Among the sub-alpine or northern plants which have been 

 found iii Connecticut are Potentilla tridentata (in West Cornwall, 

 just outside our limits), Rhodora Canadensis, Linnma borealis^ 

 Viburnum lanta?ioides, Trillium erythrocarpum and Streptopus 

 roseus ; and while I write comes the announcement of Arenaria 

 Qroznlandica^ on some high rocks in Middletown, but. this surely 

 needs ample proof ! 



