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1900]. Kennedy,—Carex Novae Angliae in E. Mass, — 83 
Botanical Club in 1897, I learned that several members were familiar 
with the blue-fruited variety. Mr. J. H. Sears has since placed at my 
disposal a suite of specimens and notes from eastern Massachusetts. 
He has made out several differences between the black and the blue- 
fruited sorts, such as abundance of resinous excretions in the inflores- 
cence, color of the cortex, form of corolla, etc., but with my best 
endeavors I have been unable to follow these distinctions when ex- 
amining specimens from a wider range. 
Recently Dr. Charles B. Graves of New London, Connecticut, in- 
dependently discovered the blue-berried huckleberry in his region, and 
was about to publish upon it, but learning that I had been observing 
the plant he most courteously placed his material at my disposal. 
Mr. Emerson's varieties have suffered the quick oblivion which is 
apt to overtake unnamed forms, and even our best recent floras con- 
tinue to describe the fruit of Gaylussacia resinosa as black, without a 
bloom. It seems desirable therefore to place the blue-berried variety 
on more definite record, as follows : — 
GAYLUSSACIA RESINOSA, var. glaucocarpa.  Berries dull, blue, 
covered with a distinct pale sericeous bloom, and tending to be large 
and of rich flavor for the species: plant precocious in foliation and 
anthesis in comparison with the typical form. — Rocky shores of 
Thorndike Pond, Jaffrey, N. H., collected by the writer August 23, 
1896, no. 58 (type, in herb. Gray), and subsequently in the same 
locality at various times by Messrs. W. Deane, E. L. Rand, and E. F. 
Williams. 
Apparently identical plants have been found at Topsfield, Massa- 
chusetts, by Mr. J. H. Sears, who also states that its fruit is earlier and 
larger than in the typical form; North Berwick, Maine, by Mr. J. C. 
Parlin. No. 1,157b of the beautiful set of plants recently distributed 
from Biltmore, North Carolina, by Mr. C. D. Beadle, is (so far as the 
specimen in the Gray Herbarium is concerned) of this variety. Plants 
collected by Dr. C. B. Graves at Waterford, Conn., have smaller blue 
fruit and may possibly prove a different variety. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
CAREX NOVAE-ANGLIAE IN EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS — In the 
Gray Herbarium are two sheets of Carex /Novae- Angliae, Schw., col- 
lected by William Boott, one of which is labelled, * Purgatory Swamp, 
Dedham, July 1o, 1861," and the other “Blue Hills, June 3, 1870." 
