1901] Fernald, — A new Variety of Juncus tenuis 59 
for decorative purposes brought to New Bedford a few branches of 
a yellow-fruited Holly, //ex opaca, Ait. The fact was called to my 
notice, when I immediately sought out the farmer who had found the 
tree and engaged him to pilot me to the spot. It was not an easy 
task to find it in the deep woods of oak and pine with snow lying on 
the ground, but persistent effort at last revealed the object of our 
search. It was a slender, symmetrical tree, 18 to 20 feet in height, 
with the trunk five inches in diameter at the ground. The abundant 
clusters of berries were looser, and the bright, yellow fruit somewhat 
smaller than the typical form. 
The * Illustrated Flora" mentions the variety as rarely occurring, 
and itis quite remarkable that the two rare varieties of the same 
genus should be found but a few miles apart. — E. WILLIAMS 
Hervey, New Bedford, Massachusetts. 
A NEW VARIETY OF JUNCUS TENUIS. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
(Plate 23.) 
DuniNG the past July Mr. Emile F. Williams found at Van Buren, 
Aroostook County, Maine, a singular rush, unlike any of the forms 
recognized in America. In the light of Dr. Wiegand's excellent 
paper! and the authenticated specimens in the Gray Herbarium and 
the herbarium of the New England Botanical Club, Mr. Williams's 
plant is confidently placed with Juncus tenuis. In its loose broad 
sheaths with prolonged white scarious auricles and in its greenish 
flowers it is clearly a form of this species, but in its inflorescence it 
is very unlike any described variety. 
The short conspicuously secund branches of the inflorescence 
suggest at first 7. secundus, Beauv., but in that the branches of the 
inflorescence are very ascending or even incurved, and the bract is 
distinctly shorter. In Mr. Williams's plant, on the other hand, the 
very short branches are widespreading or recurved and much ex- 
ceeded by the bracts. In the secund arrangement of its flowers the 
plant approaches also Dr. Wiegand’s Juncus tenuis, var. anthelatus ; 
1Juncus tenuis Willd. and some of its North American Allies; Bull, Torr. Club, 
xxvii 511-527. 
