34 Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
DESMODIUM BRACTEOSUM (Michx.) DC., var. longifolium (Torr. & 
Gray), n. comb. D. canadense, var. longijolium Torr. &. Gray, Fl. 
i. 365 (1838). Meibomia longifolia Vail, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxiii. 
140 (1896). 
П.Ех opaca Ait., forma xanthocarpa, n. f., formae typicae omnino 
simillima sed drupis laete flavis.— Quite like the typical form but 
with bright yellow drupes.— Near New Bedford, Massachusetts, 
where discovered by Mr. E. Williams'Hervey, in the autumn of 1900 
(type, in hb. Gray). 
ILEX LAEVIGATA (Pursh) Gray, forma Herveyi, n. f., omnino ut 
forma typica sed drupis laete flavis.— Altogether like the typical form, 
but the drupes bright yellow.— Near the pumping station, Little 
Quittacus Lake, Lakeville, Massachusetts, 22 October, 1900, E. W. 
Hervey (type, in hb. Gray). 
LECHEA INTERMEDIA Leggett, var. juniperina (Bicknell), n. comb. 
L. juniperina Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxiv. 88 (1897). 
LECHEA MARITIMA Leggett, var. interior, n. var., quam forma typica 
paulo gracilior laxius ramosa viridior; foliis tenuioribus; pedicellis 
filiformibus 2-3 mm. longis.— A little more slender than the typical 
form, more loosely branched, and greener; leaves thinner; pedicels 
threadlike, 2-3 mm. long.— Dry soil, Troy, N. H., 11 September, 1897, 
B. L. Robinson, no. 588 (type, in hb. Gray). This variety is proposed 
to cover a puzzling, by no means rare, inland phase of L. maritima, in 
many ways simulating L. intermedia yet showing the pyramidal branch- 
ing and slightly smaller fruit of the former species. 
OENOTHERA MURICATA L., var. canescens (Torr. & Gray), n. comb. 
О. biennis, var. canescens Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 492 (1840). 
OENOTHERA LACINIATA Hill, var. grandiflora (Wats.), n. comb. 0. 
sinuata, var. grandiflora Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 581 (1873). 0. 
laciniata, var. grandis Britton, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, v. 358 (1894). 
OENOTHERA LINEARIS Michx., var. Eamesii, n. var., decumbens; 
foliis ellipticis, majoribus 2.7 cm. longis, 1.1 em. latis.— Decumbent; 
leaves elliptical, the larger 2.7 cm. long, 1.1 em. wider.— sandy shore 
of a salt pond Stratford, Connecticut, E. H. Eames (type, hb. Gray). 
Oenothera longipedicellata (Small), n. comb. Kneiffia longipedicel- 
lata Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxiii. 178 (1896). 
Oenothera pratensis (Small), n. comb. Kneiffila. pratensis Small, 
FL S. E. U. 5. 842, 1335 (1903). | 
Spermolepis patens (Nutt.) n. comb.  Leptocaulis patens Nutt. 
