40 Rhodora [Fehruary 



buryport {Wm. OaArs) : Gi'.rmanv, NMenburg an der Weser, 1859 

 {No/(/ak(i); Weimar, August 22, 1888 {Torges) : Sicily, Porto 

 Empcdocle, Girgeuti, May 30, 1885, Paterno, Catania, June 2, 1885 

 ( W. O. Focke). — A strongly marked txtreme. in its best develop- 

 ment, with its broad blunt short inner perianth segments and short 

 truncate seeds, seeming very distinct from true/, biifoniiis, but clearly 

 connected with that common species by specimens from various 

 regions. Thus /. ranariiis, A. Songeon and E. Perrier, described 

 frt)m borders of salt water near Moutiers, Savoie, has the inner seg- 

 ments thin and barely equalling or rarely exceeding the capsule, 

 acute or obtuse, and the seeds ovoid. Other plants showing transi- 

 tional tendencies in the perianth or in the shortening of the seed 

 have been examined from such extreme regions as Lapland, South 

 Australia, and Manitoba, so that it is probable that 7". bufoniiis, var. 

 /nxlophilus is broadly distributed over the globe. 



* ♦ Capsule subspherical or short-ovoid, 2 to 3 mm. long : perianth-seg- 

 ments in maturitj with loosely spreading-ascending or subsqiiarrose tips. 



J. sPH.\EROCARPUS, Nces in Funck's Correspondenz, Flora (1818) 

 521. Resembling /. bufonius, but very slender, rarely 2 dm. high : 

 quickly distinguished by its small capsules and loosely ascending 

 perianth-segments. — A well-known species of central and southern 

 Europe and Asia. The following American specimens have been 

 examined. Rocky Mountains, without station cited {Hall &* 

 Harbour, no. 559. in part) : Idaho, common in wet places, valley of 

 Big Potlatch River, Nez Perces County, June 4, 1892 {Sandberg, 

 MaiDoiigal &• Heller, no. 312). Oregon, Swan Lake Valley, 

 Klamath County, June 6, 1895 {Applcgate wo. 751, in part): Cai.i- 

 KORNiA, margin of pool. Mendocino City, May, \?,GG {Bolandcr — 

 material distributed in Engelmann's Herb. June. Bor.-Am. Norm., 

 no. 28, as "7". bnfoniiis forma erecta sepalis subacqualibus capsularn 

 retusam longc suprranfibus.''''); Woodland, April 15, T893 {Blaiikin- 

 s/iip) ; Sisson, Siskiyou County, June, 1897 (H. E. Brown, no. 346) ; 

 Chico, 1885 {A. Gray); San Isabel, May, 1852 {Thiirber. no. 620). 

 Arizona, vicinity of Flagstaff, alt. 7000 ft., July 8, 1898 {MaeDoiigal, 

 no. 241). 



Suoc.EsrioNs KOR Spkcial Obskrvations. 



Junius balticus, Detliard, ordinarily a companion of J. Gcrartli 

 along the coast, is common on ledgy and gravelly river-banks of 

 Aroostook County, Maine, with /. alpinus, var. insignis, J. brachy- 

 cephalus, Tojicldia glufinosa, etc., and in an inland swamp of (renesee 

 County, New York, with Scirpus Torreyi, Zygadenus chlaranthus, etc. 

 It should, therefore, be expected to accompany some of those charac- 

 teristic species in the Champlain Valley. 



