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Galium and found growing with G. erectum, but not answering to any 
description in our Manuals. ‘This Mr. Fernald determined to be 
Asperula galioides, M. Bieb. and stated this to be the first report of 
the species in New England. There is also a specimen of this plant 
at the Gray Herbarium, from the Michigan Agricultural College dis- 
tributed as Galium Mollugo. ‘These two are the only stations at pre- 
sent known at which the plant has been collected’ in this country. 
As the name indicates it has every appearance of being a Galium 
but is separated from that genus on account of the corolla, which, 
instead of being wheel-shaped and without a definite tube, is tubular- 
campanulate below the flaring limb.— C. H. BrssELL, Southington, 
Connecticut. 
SOME VARIATIONS OF TRIGLOCHIN MARITIMA. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
THE common Arrow-grass, Z7iglochin maritima, is uniformly 
described in our floras as well as those of Europe, and in Engler and 
Prantl’s Natürlichen PHanzenfamilien, as having 6 carpels. Yet in 
July, 1902, while examining with Dr. G. G. Kennedy, and Messrs. 
J. F. Collins and E. F. Williams the Triglochins on the shore of 
Schooner Cove, at Cutler, Maine, the writer was surprised to find 
below high-water mark a belt of 7: maritima with carpels varying in 
number from 3 to 6. Examination of these flowers shows that in 
some cases there are 5 normal carpels and a sixth undeveloped 
one, while in others the sixth is quite wanting. In several cases 
there are merely 4 good carpels, and in a few flowers 3 good carpels 
and a single undeveloped one. 
Higher upon the beach, just above high-water mark, normal 
Triglochin maritima with 6 carpels was growing with the slender 
3-carpelled 7. palustris. The belt of 7: maritima with 3, 4, 5, Or 6 
carpels was, as stated, considerably below high-water mark, and 
twice a day it was entirely covered by the chilling ocean water. The 
plants of this belt were very low and caespitose, forming dense 
clumps a decimeter or so in height, with racemes only 2 to 6 cm. 
long, and often distorted or umbelliform. The dwarf caespitose 
