1903] Knight,— Some Plants New to Maine 71 
iii. 829; DC. Prodr. vii. 607. Var. angustifolia, Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 
68 (1789); Pursh, Fl. 291. Vars. subulata, minima, and oleifolia, G. 
Don, |. c. (1834). A. rosmarinifolia, Pursh, Fl. 291 (1814) ; G. 
Don, l.c. A. Polifolia, var. rosmarinifolia, DC. l.c. Rhododendron 
Polifolium, Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 287 (1772). — Arctic regions, 
extending south in Europe to Great Britain, and in the mountains 
to northern Italy; in Asia to Japan, &c.; and in America to Sitka 
(various collectors); Lake Huron (Todd), and “mountains, New 
York” (Durand in Herb. Thurber). Very local in temperate Amer- 
ica, but to be expected on the mountains of northern New England. 
A. GLAUCOPHYLLA, Link. (Fig. 2). Similar in habit: leaves white 
beneath with close fine pubescence: branchlets and bud-scales glau- 
cous: flowers on thickish curved pedicels 
rarely twice as long as the urceolate corolla: 
calyx-lobes whitish, usually spreading: cap- 
sule depressed, turban-shaped, glaucous. — 
Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 394 (1821). A. Poli- 
folia of Am. authors in general. A. Po/ifolia, 
var. /atifolia, Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 68 (1789); 
Pursh, Fl. 291; Lodd. Bot. Cab. vi. no. 546; 
Er Dron a e DC. 16-40 Zoll var 
angusti, folia, Lodd. l. c. xvi. no. 1591 (1829), 
not Ait. and var. revoluta Lodd. l. c. xviii. 
no. 1725 (1831). [Loddiges ascribes the plants from which his 
plates were drawn to northern Europe, but probably they originated 
in America and later in cultivation were supposed to be European.] 
A. Polifolia, var. glaucophylla, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 829 (1834) ; 
DC. l.c. A. americana, Hort., and A. canadensis, Hort. acc. to DC. 
l. c. (1839). —In sphagnum swamps and wet mossy shores and 
banks, from Aillik Bay (lat. 55°), Labrador to Lake Winnipeg, 
south to Minnesota, Pennsylvania and northern New Jersey. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
Recorps OF SOME PLants NEw To MarNE.— On July 13th, 1902, 
while I was collecting along the water front below Bangor in company 
with Mr. F. M. Billings, we found a number of specimens of vetch- 
like leguminous plants growing in the gravelly ballast, which had 
been left there by some Italian vessels. Not being able to identify 
