198 Rhodora. [Jury 
than the sphagnous meadow which surrounded it except on the land- 
ward side.... There was a small patch a yard or so square with only 
a few plants. I do not remember seeing any of the ordinary form 
there. Associated plants were Lonicera caerulea, Rhodora canadensis, 
Carex vestita, while near by were lex glabra, I. laevigata, Azalea 
viscosa, var. glauca, Nemopanthes fascicularis, Arethusa bulbosa, Carex 
bullata, stricta, filiformis, Eriophorum paucinervium and others. I 
cannot account for its presence here; certainly the cutting off of the 
woodland would not explain it. Some of the plants mentioned are 
also northern, and in another portion of the swamp I found Chzogenes 
and CZintonia borealis, both rare in this county; also Cornus canaden- 
sis.” A cross should mark this in my list. 
Vaccinium pennsylvanicum, var. nigrum, Wood. Mr. J. R. Churchill 
collected on July 17, 1886, in the Blue Hills Reservation, Quincy, 
Massachusetts, the typical form of this species with blue berries, 
and near by the variety with black berries without bloom. ‘The con- 
trast between the two forms was noted at the time. I have seen 
these specimens in Mr. Churchill’s herbarium. 
Mr. W. W. Eggleston collected this form on Twin Mountains, 
West Rutland, Vermont, on July 1, 1899, and recorded it in the 
Flora of Vermont, 1900, p. 69. I have seen Mr. Eggleston’s speci- 
mens both in Dr. Brainerd’s herbarium and my own. These two 
states should each be represented by a cross in my list. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
SCUTELLARIA PARVULA AND S. AMBIGUA. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
THE dwarf skullcap, although not a common plant in New 
England, is known at a few stations in Maine, Vermont and Con- 
necticut. ‘The Maine and Connecticut plant, however, differs in one 
striking characteristic from specimens from Lake Champlain and 
adjacent Quebec; the former being minutely puberulent or glabrate, 
the latter densely pubescent with spreading viscid hairs. Examina- 
tion of herbarium material shows that both these forms are widely 
distributed in North America, and an attempt to place them sat- 
isfactorily has brought to light an interesting history. 
