28 . Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
A few rods farther down the road leading past this place and toward 
Long Hill in Bridgewater, Miss Elizabeth Billings found the Blue 
Fringed Gentian growing. 
Woopstock, VERMONT. 
ARCEUTHOBIUM IN THE RANGELEY Reaion.— While walking along 
the line of the South Bog Railroad, in the township of Rangeley 
Plantation, Maine, I passed through a considerable quantity of Black 
Spruce. A few of the trees had suspicious-looking “ witches’ brooms” 
on them, which proved on investigation to contain Arceuthobium 
pusillum Peck. Very few of the trees, however, were thus affected. 
'The nearest recorded station for this species so far as I know is in 
Pleasant Ridge Township, about forty miles to the east of the one 
reported here.— Jonn Munpocn, JR., Harvard Forestry Expedition. 
NoTE ON CiRSIUM MUTICUM, VAR. MONTICOLA.— In the Ottawa 
Naturalist, I recently described the alpine thistle of the Shickshock 
Mountains, and inadvertently placed it in Cn?cus, a genus which, as 
now everywhere interpreted, consists of the single species, Cnicus 
benedictus, the Blessed Thistle. The plant of the Shickshock Moun- 
tains should bear the name 
Cirsium MUTICUM Michx., var. monticola, n. comb.— Cnicus muti- 
cus, var. monticola Fernald, Ottawa Nat. xix. 166 (1905).— Explora- 
tions during the past summer showed that on Mt. Albert this plant 
abounds throughout the serpentine area, descending from the alpine 
meadows, in the gorge of Ruisseau à la Neige, nearly to Lac au 
Diable at an altitude of 550 meters; while it is apparently quite 
absent from the hornblende district of the mountain. It was also 
found on Table-topped Mountain, in a single alpine meadow whose 
mixed soil supported Danthonia intermedia, Solidago multiradiata, 
and a few other plants, which in the Shickshock Mountains have 
their great development on the serpentine.— M. L. FERNALD, Gray 
Herbarium. 
Vol. 9, no. 97, including pages 1-16, was issued 22 January, 1907. 
