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smooth and the very large taper-pointed leaves with the midrib pubes- 
cent both above and below, usually densely so even in late summer. 
Many leaves in my specimens are over six inches long. 
Thus one more high northern plant is added to the Flora of the 
United States by its occurrence in the valley of the St. John river 
within our border. 
Boston, MASSACHUSETTS. 
A New STATION ror LACTUCA Morssi!. — Among a number of 
specimens of Lactuca leucophaea, Gray, which I collected in Middle- 
boro, Mass., on Aug. 18, 1901, there was one which, on examination, 
proved to have fruit unlike that of the others. "This specimen has 
been identified at the Gray Herbarium as Z. Morssii, Robinson. 
The plants came from a rather low place by the roadside, near a 
brook. Except for the fruit, there was no apparent difference be- 
tween the species. This station extends the range of Z. Morssii by 
about twenty miles, and is at least ten miles from the nearest salt water. 
—Joun Murpocu, JR., Roxbury, Massachusetts. 
THE TRUE LYCOPODIUM COMPLANATUM AND ITS 
COMMON AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
IN August, r9or, while studying the forms of Lycopodium sabinae- 
J'olium and sitchense on a northern hillside at Fort Kent, Maine, Mr. 
E. F. Williams called the attention of Dr. B. L. Robinson and the 
writer to a peculiar coarse plant with more or less glaucous branches. 
This plant which at first sight suggested a large glaucous form of 
L. sabinacfolium was seen upon examination to differ strikingly from 
that species in its broad branches with flat under surface. In this 
character the plant was like the common Z. complanatum of the 
Eastern States. But unlike the well-known eastern Z. complanatum, 
which occurred near by, the coarser glaucous plant quite lacked the 
compact fan-like habit of the sterile branches, while the longer 
loosely ascending branches were less forked, and the shorter mostly 
simple peduncles bore solitary simple or slightly forked strobiles 
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