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were several plants of the ray-less fleabane {Erigeron ramosus dis- 

 coideus) reported by Mr. Ridloii as found in Bennington in 1920, and 

 collected for Miss Billings in Woodstock last year. The Woodstock and 

 Ferrisburg plants were truly ray-less. In this same field and further 

 west of the track I collected the poverty grass {Aristida dichotoma) 

 last fall, thus adding another station for that species. Just before 

 I left Ferrisburg, I found what I have long searched for, a pure white 

 flowered Vicia Cracca. Three years ago I saw a plant in a corn field, 

 but had no means of removing it, and lost the specimens I collected 

 and pressed. This year there were several plants growing freely with, 

 the typical form on a steep bank. Again I had nothing to dig with, 

 but plants are marked, and if fortune favors, the roots will be re- 

 moved to a safe place later in the year. Specimens have been sent 

 to Mrs. Flynn for the state herbarium. The flowers dried very nicely 

 under press without acquiring even a tinge of blue as so many albinos 

 disappointingly do. Has this form been reported before? 



SOME PLANTS OF MY EUROPEAN TRIP 



Nellie F. Flynn 



In a two months' trip abroad there is no time to do real botanizing 

 or collecting. The best that I could do was to carry a magazine around 

 under my arm and grab a plant or a piece of a plant as I passed by. 

 In a very few places I had a chance to see of what the Flora really 

 consisted. On the train and on automobile trips I kept a pencil and 

 book handy and jotted down plants that I recognized or the family to 

 which they belonged if I was not able to tell the species. 



The wild carrot, Daucus Carota, was in every country that I 

 visited, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and England, and more 

 common than with us. The blue weed, Echium vulgare, was also 

 everywhere, even in the hills back of Algiers and up on the highest 

 Alps. Fireweed, Epilobium angustifolium, both magenta and white, 

 and the white and yellow sweet clovers, Melilotus alba and M. officinalis, 

 were very common. The fireweed, especially, grew in great masses 

 and was very showy even high up in the Alps. In northern Italy, a 

 holly hock. Althaea officinalis, of a sort of lavender color, grew along 

 the railway for miles. 



