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had been grown the previous season, and which owing to press of work 

 elsewhere had been neglected until the plants had attained sufficient 

 size to attract attention, and then several of my selection were allowed 

 to remain some weeks longer for study. Unfortunately, one which 

 from its leaves and other characters seemed to answer to C. ur'bicum 

 did not mature in the time allowed and so, regretfully, I cannot report 

 it as a find. The white goose-foot (C, album) appeared in so many 

 forms as to bewilder one. It is certainly a variable species. Brassica 

 Japonica, many years ago cultivated as a salad plant, has persisted 

 as a weed in the Strong garden in Taftsville for years. It is a beau- 

 tiful plant at all times, and before sending up the flower stalk resembles 

 some of the curly lettuces. In that garden there also grows a hedge 

 mustard {Sisymhrium) , dwarf, and so branched from the root as to 

 appear bushy, with tiny flowers, and very purple stems and petioles. 

 It has not been sufficiently studied at this writing to permit determina- 

 tion. Several plants of the attractive rough-fruited cinquefoil {Poten- 

 tilla recta) were found in a hay meadow in August. They bore evi- 

 dence of having been cut when the meadow was mowed early in July, 

 but were bravely blooming on short branches. The somewhat rare 

 variety of the Virginia creeper {Psedera quinquefolia var. hirsuta) was 

 found trailing along the river bank, all but smothered by the masses 

 of the common form. Probably because of its struggle for a place 

 in the sun it bore no fruit. An interesting St. John's wort (Hyperi- 

 cum) was collected in two widely separated stations, but it may prove 

 to be merely a form of H. majus. The wing-angled loosestrife (Ly- 

 thrum alatum) was found in a swampy part of a pasture, its bright 

 flowers very conspicuous among the rank growths of scirpus, typha, 

 and other swamp plants. The gout-weed {Aegopodium Podagraria, L.) 

 was found along the roadside, near the river, probably having been 

 washed down during some period of high water, and now thoroughly 

 at home. The common form, much used as a border plant in old 

 gardens, is a variety of the species. A few plants were found in a 

 field five years ago, their occurrence there occasioning much surprise. 

 In the neglected garden patch before mentioned in connection with 

 the goose-foot, was a very beautiful plant of the dragon head (Draco- 

 cephalum pai'viflorum) . I believe H. L. Potter of West Rutland re- 

 ported this species several years ago. The sand bur (Solanum rostra- 

 turn) appeared in odd places on the Billings estate, but was not al- 

 lowed to mature fruit. The pretty little Linaria minor is common 

 along the Woodstock Railroad below Taftsville, and probably will be 



