1900] ` Bissell, — A new variety of Zizia aurea 225 
mosum. Later in the month, a few scattered plants of V. pennsylva- 
nicum were found in bloom near Lake Minnewaska, Ulster County, 
New York. Iam told that, though one often finds violets, and other 
spring-flowering herbs blossoming again in autumn, this tendency is 
unusual with shrubbery plants; and I remember finding nothing of 
the kind before, though often in the woods in September and October. 
Can it be the result of the unusually dry weather? — M. A. Cog, 
Brookline, Massachusetts. 
A NEW VICIA FOR NEw ENGLAND, — In the early summer of 1895, 
Miss Patterson, one of my pupils, brought me specimens of a Vicia 
collected in a roadside ditch, in the outskirtsof this village. I did 
not examine it critically, but took it for a rank form of V. sativa, L., and 
so recorded it in my note-book. Last summer I collected it from the 
same station and, doubtful of its identity, sent specimens to the Gray 
Herbarium, where Dr. E. B. Uline determined it as E sepium, L., 
a species generally distributed in Europe. Another American speci- 
men in the Gray Herbarium, was collected by L. R. Jones in a mea- 
dow at Montreal, in 1895. 
Vicia sepium differs from V. sativa chiefly in the following charac- 
ters: flowers 2—5, in sessile clusters or short racemes, the individual 
flowers on short pedicels; leaves large, ovate or ovate-oblong; pod 
comparatively short and broad.—- HERBERT E. SARGENT, Brewster 
Free Academy, Wolfboro, New Hampshire. 
A NEW VARIETY OF ZIZIA AUREA. — On a botanical trip last June, 
at Salisbury, Connecticut, a field was crossed in which were many plants 
of “ Golden Alexanders.” In this species, the leaflets are usually at 
least twice as long as broad, tapering to a point, and sharply toothed. 
Here, however, were individuals with leaflets nearly as broad as long, 
very blunt, and with shallow teeth. They were growing with, and 
otherwise seemed like the typical form, yet the variation is so striking, 
that it seems worthy of a name and description, as follows : 
ZIZIA AUREA, Koch, var. obtusifolia, N. var. Leaflets 2 to 
4 cm. long, from obovate to broadly oblong, mostly rounded or 
even retuse at the apex, closely serrate with shallow teeth. — Low 
fields, growing with the typical form, Salisbury, Connecticut, 19 June, 
1900. Type specimen in the Gray Herbarium. — C. H. BissELL, 
Southington, Connecticut. 
