1901] Evans, — Fossombronia salina 7 
Engl. Bot. t. 32; Fl. Dan. t. 1230; Gray, Syn. Fl. i. part 2, 394; 
Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. iii. 483, f. 4054 — Maine, Mt. Desert Island, 
Rand, and adjacent coast : MassACHUSETTS, vicinity of Boston, Wm. 
Boott (coll. of Sept, 1879); CAMBRIDGE, B. Z. Robinson (coll. 
of 1 Sept., 1897): RHODE ISLAND, near Providence, /. W. Congdon 
(coll. of 4 Sept., 1874); W. W. Bailey (coll. of 1876). 
+ + Pubescence not glandular. 
++ Heads usually with short inconspicuous rays: involucre barely 
calyculate. 
7. S. SYLVATICUS, L. Stems erect, 1 to 4 dm. high, simple or 
branched, usually somewhat pubescent: lower leaves petioled and 
more or less lyrate, the upper pinnatifid with unequal lobes, sessile, 
clasping and slightly sagittate, 2 to 15 cm. long, 1 to 8 cm. broad: 
inflorescence naked or nearly so: heads cylindrical; involucre barely 
calyculate with few and inconspicuous scales: ligules barely surpassing 
the disk-flowers (or none?): achenes canescent. — Sp. ii. 868, & 
ed. 2, 1217; Eng. Bot. t. 748; Fl. Dan. t. 869; Gray, Syn. Fl. i. 
part 2, 394; Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. iii. 482, as to description. — 
Marne, Mt. Desert Island and Southport, Fernald. 
++ ++ Heads rayless : involucre conspicuously calyculate with short black- 
tipped scales. 
8. S.vuLGaRIS, L. Stems 1 to 4 dm. high, essentially glabrous, or 
subfloccose-pubescent especially in the axils of the leaves and in the 
inflorescence: leaves pinnatifid, more or less lyrate, with angulately 
toothed divisions, sessile and subclasping, 2 to 8 cm. long: heads 
discoid: achenes puberulent along the angles. — Sp. ii. 867, & ed. 2, 
1216; Fl. Dan. t. 513; Eng. Bot. t. 747; Gray, Syn. Fl. i. part 
2, 394; Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. iii. 482, f. 4053.— Mains, Blaine, 
Fernald (col. of 12 Sept, 1896): VERMONT, Rutland, Agg/eston : 
MASSACHUSETTS, Ipswich, Oakes; Swampscott, C. A. Weatherby 
(coll. of 21 June, 1897); Revere Beach, Greenman, no. 515, 
RHODE ISLAND, Providence, Zhurber (coll. of 1844): CONNECTICUT: 
Southington, Andrews no. 1. 
BERLIN, GERMANY. 
FOSSOMBRONIA SALINA IN CONNECTICUT. 
ALEXANDER W. EvANs. 
THE various species of Fossombronia resemble one another so 
closely in their vegetative characters, that it is, in most cases, a ques- 
tionable policy to describe new species from speciméns whose capsules 
