106 Rhodora [Mav 
Var. PADIFOLIA, Watson. Leaves obovate-oblong, thickish, about 
as large as in the typical form, but densely tomentose beneath, not 
only upon the veins but upon the intermediate areas as well.— Bibliog. 
Ind. 160 (1878), where the combination is incorrectly ascribed to 
Torrey & Gray, who employed (in ms.) the name padđifolia, not under 
flex verticillata but under Prinos verticillatus. Prinos padifolius, 
Willd. 1. c.— Originally collected in eastern Pennsylvania. The 
nearest approach to the real variety which has been seen in recent 
collections is Heller & Halbach’s No. 518 from McCall's Ferry, York 
County, Pennsylvania. I have not found any satisfactory match for 
this variety from the New England states. 
Forma chrysocarpa. Fruit bright yellow. — Georgetown, Massa- 
chusetts, Mrs. C. N. S. Horner (specimen in herb. Gray). 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
SCIRPUS SYLVATICUS: A CORRECTION, — In the January RHODORA 
(ii. 19) I stated that in “the fifth edition (1867) [of Gray's Manual] 
... the range of Scirpus sylvaticus was given as ‘Base of the 
White Mountains, New Hampshire (Oakes), and northward... . . 
In the sixth edition (1889) . . . the name S. sy/vaticus was rightly 
applied." Mr. E. B. Harger kindly calls my attention to the fact 
that, in the later issues of the fifth edition, the southern .S. sylvaticus 
was clearly distinguished from the northern S. microcarpus (S. rubro- 
tinctus). This change was made, in fact, in the second issue ( 1868) 
of that edition. Thus Dr. Gray, and not Dr. Britton, as stated in my 
recent article, was the first to separate in print the two species of the 
northeast. — M. L. FERNALD. 
PEZIZA RAPULUM BULL., which Dr. Farlow tells me is not often col- 
lected, was found by Mr. E. L. Rand in Burlington, Mass., May 6. 
Only the chance inspection of the ground at the spot selected as a 
lunching place, brought to light the small cups of the fungus, 1-2 inch 
wide at most. Others were discovered by baring the earth, inch by 
inch, for the color of the cups was nearly that of the dead grass and 
leaves in and under which they lay. The slender stems, sunk an inch 
or two in the soil, each arose from an irregular, blackish sclerotium, 
about the size of a pea, or larger, as figured by Bulliard (Pl. 485 f. 45) 
The sclerotia lay just below the turf. The spores are elliptical, 12 to 
13 by 6 to 6% p; paraphyses few, inconspicuous, filiform.— HoLLIS 
WEBSTER. 
Vol. 2, No. 16, including pages 75 to 92 and plate 16, was issuea April 14, 1900. 
