16 Rhodora [JANUARY 
or spatulate, rather stiff, covered beneath with sulphur-yellow powder: 
bracts as in the species: pedicels elongate, often 2 to 5 times as long 
as the calyx: capsule 5-8 mm. long, much exserted.— FI. i. 213 (1824). 
— Shores of Lakes Huron and Michigan, Ontario and Michigan. 
* * Calyx in anthesis 6-8 mm. long: bracts 6-11 mm. long. 
Var. macropoda, var. nov. Planta 1-4.5 dm. alta; foliis spathula- 
tis vel anguste rhomboideo-ovatis longe petiolatis, subtus farinosis; 
bracteis lineari- vel lanceolato-attenuatis; pedicellis elongatis (1-5 cm. 
longis); capsulis 9-12 mm. longis exsertis. 
Usually tall (1-4.5 dm. high): leaves from spatulate to narrowly 
rhombic-ovate, long-petioled, usually white-farinose beneath: bracts 
linear- or lance-attenuate, often involute in drying: pedicels mostly 
elongate (1-5 em. long): capsule 9-12 mm. long, usually much ex- 
serted.— LABRADOR, Battle Harbor, July 18, 1891 (Bowdoin College 
Exped. no. 104): QuxEBEc, Island of Anticosti (Pursh); wet limestone 
cliffs, Percé, August 17, 1904 (Collins, Fernald and Pease); banks of 
the St. Lawrence R., Matane, August 7, 1904 (F. F. Forbes); lime- 
stone cliffs and ledges, Bic, July 16, 1904 (Collins & Fernald), July 
6-10, 1905 (Williams, Collins and Fernald), July 5, 1906 (Fernald & 
Collins, no. 243 — TYPE): Nova Scorta, without locality (Mac- 
Culloch); dripping cliffs, Baxters Harbor, July 10, 1900 (F. G. 
Floyd): Maine, Mt. Kineo, August, 1866 (A. H. Smith), September 
27, 1887 (G. G. Kennedy): KEEWATIN, a small green-leaved extreme, 
below high-water mark, shore of Hudson Bay, latitude 56°, August, 
1886 (J. M. Macoun): SASKATCHEWAN, Carleton House (Richardson): 
ATHABASCA, “The Cascade," Athabasca R., June 15, 1892 (Elizabeth 
Taylor, no. 38): Mackrnzir, Great Slave Lake (Richardson). 
Var. incana (M. E. Jones), n. comb. Scapes 1-3.5 dm. high: leaves 
oblong- to narrowly rhombic-ovate, short-petioled or subsessile: bracts 
linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish: pedicels in anthesis mostly shorter 
than the bracts, in fruit slightly elongated (rarely 2 or 3 em. long).— 
P. incana M. E. Jones, Proc. Cal. Acad., Ser. 2, v. 706 (1895). P. 
americana Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Cl. xxviii. 500 (1906).— Rocky Mts., 
Alberta to Colorado and Utah. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
Vol. 8, no. 96, including pages 225 to 246, and title page oj the volume, was 
issued 24 December, 1906. 
