202 Rhodora [October 



Lakes, August 2, 1903 (B. L. Robinson). Similar specimens have 

 been colleeted by iNIr. F. F. Forbes on the ]Matane River, Quebec. 



Carex nuLi-ATA Schkuhr, Reidgr. Nachtr. 85, t. U u u, fig. 166 

 (1806) was described with "spicis. . . .femineis l)inis cyHndraceis"; 

 and in the figure two infiorescences are shown with three spikes varying 

 form 2.85 to 3.3 cm. long, and from 1 to 1.2 cm. thick, i. e. definitely 

 cvlindric. In recent years, however, the name C. bullafa has been 

 api>lied to a plant with the spikes subglobose or thick-cylindric, an 

 extreme of the species generally more common than the plant with 

 narrowly cylindric spikes; while the plant with more slender spikes 

 has been variously treated as a species, C. OIneyi Boott, as a hybritl 

 between C. bullafa and C. utrirulafa, and as an extreme variety of C. 

 bullafa. Comparison with Schkuhr's original description and figure 

 shows, however, that C. Olneijl is the plant which he had in hand, and 

 we must, therefore, treat the two extreme variations as follows. 



C. BULLATA Schkuhr. Pistillate spikes 1 or 2, cylindric, 2.5 to 5 cm. 

 long, 1 to 1.5 cm. thick: perigvnia dull or slightly lustrous. — Riedgr. 

 Nachtr. 85, t. U u u, fig. 1()() (1806). C. OIneyi Hoott, 111. i. 15, t. 42 

 (1858). C. bullafa X ufriculafa Bailev, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 68 

 (1887). C. mmile Britton, Bull. Tori-. Bot. Club, xxii. 221 (1895), 

 not Tuck. C. bullafa, var. Olncjii Fernald, Rhodora, iii. 52 (1901). 



Var. Greenii (Boeckl.), n. comb. Spikes globose to thick-cylindric, 

 1 to -1 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. thick: perigynia lustrous. — C. Greenii 

 Boeckl. Flora, xli. 649 (1858). C. bullafa, Am. Authors. 

 Gray Hkhharium. 



FILIPENDULA RUBRA, A NEW BINOMIAL. 

 B. L. RoRixsoN. 



Few oI' the native ]:)lants of the Middle West exceed in beauty the 

 "Queen of the Prairie," with its pinnate leaves, palmately lobcd leaf- 

 lets, and mnnerous gracefully panicled flowers, which according to 

 the apt description of Dr. Gray are "deep peach-blossom color." 

 The species has been extensively cultivated both within and east of 

 its natural range, and has now become established as an escape from 

 gardens in some parts of Vermont and Connecticut, perhaps elsewhere 



