24 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
sides and borders of thickets in eastern Quebec and Newfoundland, 
chiefly near the coast, and extends thence southward along the New 
England coast. The other has long been known in alpine regions 
of the White Mountains, and in 1881 it was collected by Mr. John A. 
Allen upon Table-topped Mountain in Gaspé Co., Quebec. 
The writer has long felt that the plant of Oakes Gulf and the 
Alpine Garden in the White Mountains and of Table-topped Moun- 
tain in Gaspé should not be regarded as identical with the coastal 
Rhinanthus Crista-galli, but not until the past summer has he had an 
opportunity to test his convictions by study in the field of the alpine 
plant. In August last, however, this Rhinanthus was found in pro- 
fusion on cool boggy meadows and open slopes at altitudes varying 
from 950 to 1125 meters, on Table-topped Mountain. It was most 
abundant in meadows, where it was associated with Phlewm alpinum, 
Deschampsia atropurpuresa, Juncu castaneus, Salix vestita, S. argyro- 
carpa, Rubus arcticus, Pyrola grandiflora, Veronica alpina, var. 
unalaschcensis, Castilleja pallida, var. septentrionalis, Gnaphalium 
norvegicum, and other arctic-alpine species, with some of which it 
occurs in the White Mountains. Abundant flowering and fruiting 
material was secured, and notes were made from the fresh plant, 
which, upon the return to the shores of the lower St. Lawrence, 
showed that the alpine Rhinanthus is clearly distinct from the com- 
mon coastal R. Crista-galli. A detailed study of this and of the 
other species of Rhinanthus of America and of northern Europe, as 
recently defined in the works of Chabert, Sterneck, and others, shows, 
furthermore, that the plant of the White Mountains and of Table- 
topped Mountain is apparently an undescribed species, and that it 
occurs also on the coast of Labrador. This plant, from the character- 
istic outline of the cauline leaves may be called 
RHINANTHUS oblongifolius, n. sp. Planta 0.6-4 dm. alta viridis 
basi glabra superne ad internodiorum latera pilosa simplex; foliis 
caulinis quam internodia brevioribus oblongis vel in speciminibus 
minoribus linearibus scabridis obtusis erenato-dentatis, dentibus latis 
appressis; spicis 2-12-floris; bracteis scabris, infimis foliis supremis 
similibus, mediis et superioribus triangulari-ovatis attenuatis calycem 
subaequantibus laciniato-dentatis, dentibus inferioribus patulis aris- 
tato-acuminatis quam superiores longioribus; calyce florifero ovato- 
oblongo fructifero suborbiculato 1.3-1.9 cm. longo glabrescente, mar 
ginibus ciliatis; corolla flava 1-1.2 cm. longa, tuba recta exserta; labia 
superiore 3-4 mm. longa, margine inferiore convexo dentibus flavis 
oblique quadrilateralibus subtruncatis 0.5 mm. longis, 1.5 mm. latis; 
