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called into question or else the characters must be very differently 
drawn. Observersin the field should examine these plants wherever 
met with, and I should be very glad to receive specimens or notes 
from any part of New England that will throw light on the constancy 
or inconstancy of Rhododendron canescens and nudiflorum. 
Rhododendron viscosum, var. nitidum, Gray. Dr. E. H. Eames has 
sent me for examination a specimen of the above variety, with small 
shiny leaves, an inch or less in length. The plant compares well 
with specimens in the Gray Herbarium. It was collected by Dr. 
Eames at Huntington, Connecticut, on September 11, 1893, and was 
“abundant in a large peat bog, with Vaccinium Oxycoccus, L. and V. 
corymbosum, L., etc., while with it grows Gaylussacia dumosa (the 
only station known to me in this vicinity) with the usual plants of 
such situations.” ‘This is the second New England station that I know 
of for this variety, which must now be entered in my list with a cross. 
My authority for the occurrence of Rhododendron viscosum, var. 
nitidum in Massachusetts is the Flora of Nantucket, published by 
Mrs. M. L. Owen in 1888. Mr. L. L. Dame discovered the plant 
near Sesachacha, and he writes me that Dr. Asa Gray named the 
specimen which was for some reason not preserved. 
Vaccinium corymbosum var. atrococcum, Gray. Pres. Ezra Brainerd 
has shown me a specimen of this form, collected on the margin of 
Bristol Pond, Bristol, Vermont, July 5, 1898, by Mr. A. C. Dike, and 
recorded in the Flora of Vermont by Brainerd, Jones and Eggleston, 
1900, p. 68. This must now have a cross against it in my list. 
Vaccinium pennsylvanicum, var. angustifolium, Gray. Dr. C. B. 
Graves discovered this alpine form of our common Dwarf Blueberry 
ina sphagnous meadow near the edge of Great Cedar Swamp, in 
Voluntown, Connecticut, on June 17, 1899, and published it in Ruo- 
DORA, III, p. 65. I have examined specimens of the plant deposited 
in the Gray Herbarium. It is a singular jump from the high moun- 
tain tops of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to a spot in East- 
ern Connecticut but 260 feet above sea level. In reply to my inquiry 
as to its habitat, relative abundance, etc., Dr. Graves writes under 
date of March 16, 1901, “Great Cedar Swamp is an extensive white 
cedar swamp bordering Pachaug River and its branches in Volun- 
town. The point where I found the Vaccinium was on the eastern 
edge where some woody growth, bushes and small trees, red maples, 
etc., had been cut off, leaving a small and low knoll a little less wet 
