Calluna vulgaris in Southern New HampshireAuthor(s): Walter DeaneSource: Rhodora, Vol. 4, No. 46 (October, 1902), p. 200Published by: New England Botanical Club, Inc.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23293445 .

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Rhodora [October

Calluna vulgaris in Southern New Hampshire. — Through

the kindness of Mr. Clarence H. Knowlton of Chelmsford, Massa

chusetts, I am enabled to add Ca Huna vulgaris from New Hamp

shire to my list of New England Ericaceae. A cross should be

entered for this State, as Mr. Knowlton has sent me specimens of

the plant. These were accompanied by the following note under

date of September 21, 1902 :—"While on a botanical excursion in

Pelham, N. H., Sept. 13, 1902, my attention was called by chance

acquaintances to a small clump of heather. It grew in moist grass

land beside the so-called ' mammoth road,' the old-time stage-route

from Boston to Concord, N. H., less than half a mile from the

Massachusetts line. It grew across the road from a house, but not

in a place where it would be set as a garden plant. The present

occupants of the place have no knowledge of the time of introduction,

and it has probably been in existence for several years. The new

electric line from Lowell to Pelham passes the bush, which seems to

have suffered from hard usage during the construction of the railroad.

This is, I believe, the first record of the plant in New Hampshire."

I have now seen Calluna vulgaris from Maine (Cape Elizabeth),

New Hampshire (Pelham), Massachusetts (Andover, Halifax, Nan

tucket, Tewksbury and West Townsend), and Rhode Island (Great

Island). If it grows in Vermont or Connecticut, the vigilant botan

ists of these States will not leave it long undiscovered.— Walter

Deane, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Destruction of our Native Flora, A Plea for Informa

TION. — Now that public interest in the protection and preservation of

our native plants is being aroused, it is most desirable that full and

accurate information should be obtained in regard to the causes

threatening the extermination of our more beautiful and rarer wild

flowers in different parts of our country. Some of these causes will1

be found inevitable, some preventable; all of them need study.

Information especially should be obtained in regard to the depreda

tions, often tortious, on our plants for commercial purposes. With

facts before us some effective action may be taken, while ultrasenti

mental arguments accomplish nothing. Realizing this need of col

lecting evidence relating to the needless destruction of our flora, the

Society for.the Protection of Native Plants has recently appointed a

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