138 Rhodora [June 



Lactuca Aforss/i, etc. — which combine to some extent the tendencies 

 of other species of their respective genera. 



The characters of this Aroostook Valley plant with which it is a 

 pleasure to associate the name of the indefatigable botanical collec- 

 tor who first noted its peculiarities, are: — 



Scutellaria Churchilliana. Stems ascending from a slender 

 rootstock, 3.5 to 6 dm. high, minutely pilose, freely branching even 

 from the very base ; the branches simple or forked, flexuous, loosely 

 ascending or spreading, mostly 1.5 to 3 dm. long: leaves ovate- 

 acuminate, very thin, glabrous above, minutely pilose on the nerves 

 beneath ; those of the primary stem 4 to G cm. long, coarsely crenate- 

 dentate, on slender petioles nearly 1 cm. long; those of the branches 

 smaller (1.5 to 3.5 cm. long) diminishing upwards, less coarsely 

 toothed and on shorter petioles: flowers solitary in the upper axils: 

 pedicels 1 or 2 mm. long: calyx during anthesis, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, 

 puberulent : corolla 1 to 1.5 cm. long, pilose, blue-violet, narrow- 

 funnelform, gradually enlarged upward, the lower lip somewhat 

 exceeding the galea. — Maine, thicket by Aroostook River, Masar- 

 dis, Sept. 8, 1S97 {M. L. Fernald — type in Herb. Gray); beach of 

 Aroostook River, Fort Fairfield. Aug. n, 1901 (/. R. Churchill). 



In plate 38. Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews has brought out the habital 

 distinctions of the three species here discussed. 

 Gray Herbarium. 



Explanation- of Plate 3S.— Fig. 1, upper portion of Scutellaria Church- 

 illiaua : fig. 2, upper node of 5. lateriflora ; fig. 3, upper node of 5. g»Uri- 

 culata. 



The Vermont Botanical Club will join the Vermont Bird 

 Club in a field-meeting on the shores and islands of Lake Champlain, 

 Thursday and Friday, July 3 and 4. 



The plan is to make cruises in small steamers to the less accessible 

 points about the lake, leaving Burlington at 8 a. II., July 3, and 

 returning on the evening of July 4. But since it is necessary to 

 know in advance the number who will make the cruise, all persons 

 who are interested in the meeting should apply at once to Prof. L. R. 

 Jones, Secretary, Vermont Botanical Club, Burlington, Vt., for a 

 circular giving detailed information. 



Vol. 4, no. .//, containing pages Sy to 1/0, -was issued q May, iqo2. 



