276—ANTHURUS BOREALIS IN ENGLAND. 
We called attention on page 132 to the discovery of Anthurus 
borealis in Germany. We are pleased to present a photograph here¬ 
with (fig. 74) of a specimen that was found last year in England by 
Carleton Rea at Worces¬ 
ter England. This plant 
ismore “stocky” than the 
forms we have seen from 
this country but is we 
think the same species. 
There is considerable 
mystery concerning the 
source of the plant. It is 
surely an introduced 
plant both in this country 
and Europe and its home 
is probably Australia. In 
fact it seems to me to be 
the same as Lysurus aus- 
traliensis as illustrated in 
Cooke’s handbook under 
this name. Carleton Rea 
gives a fine illustration of 
his plant in Trans. Brit. 
Myc. Society of last year. 
I know of only six collec¬ 
tions of the plant in the 
United States and will be 
glad if any of my readers 
Figure 74 . can gi ve additional. 
1st. It was collected by Prof. Burt at two 
stations at East Galway, New York in 1893. 
2nd. It was collected by David Griffiths in 
grounds of Columbia University (Bull. Torr. 99-628) 
3rd Prof Beardslee gave me an alcoholic speci¬ 
men collected in the neighborhood of Cleveland. 
4th. G. E. Stone sent me a photograph of 
plants found in the green house soil at Amherst, Mass. 
5th. Geo. B. Fessenden told me he collected Figure 75. 
the plant in the “railroad yards” near Boston where stock cars had 
been unloaded and it was his impression it was an emigrant from 
“further west.” 
6th. It was collected at Sherruck. Delaware Co., N. Y. by 
F. B. Southwick, in an asparagus bed. (Cfr. Peck’s Report 50-132.) 
Carleton Rea refers the plant to the genus Lysurus and accepts 
the definition of the difference between Lysurus and Anthurus to be 
that in the former the arms are distinct from the stem and in the latter 
the} 7 are coalescent with it. This is not the distinction made by the 
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