1908] Fernald,— Plants of northeastern America 49 
are strict, and the loose glomerules usually have one or more of the 
flowers elevated above the rest on elongate pedicels. 
QUERCUS RUBRA L., var. ambigua (Michx. f.), n. comb. Q. ambi- 
gua Michx. f., Hist. Arb. Am. ii. 120, t. 24 (1812). Q. borealis Michx. 
f, N. Am. Sylva, i. 198 (1859). 0. coccinea, var. ambigua Gray, 
Man. ed. 5, 454 (1867).— This tree not only in its foliage but in its 
generally northern or upland range is clearly an extreme of Q. rubra, 
rather than of the ordinarily more southern Q. coccinea. 
NYMPHAEA ADVENA Ait., var. variegata (Engelm.), n. comb. Nu- 
phar advena Ait. f., var. variegatum Engelm. in Gray, Man. ed. 5, 
57 (1867). Nymphaea variegata G. S. Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 
XV. 13, pl. 2 (1902).— Both the yellow Cow Lilies and the White 
(or pink) Pond Lilies were included by Linnaeus under Nymphaea, 
but by the majority of authors this name has been subsequently main- 
tained for the genus including our familiar fragrant White Water Lily, 
while the yellow Cow Lilies have taken the name Nuphar Sibth. & 
Smith (1808 or 1809). Prior to the splitting of the Linnean genus by 
Sibthorp & Smith, however, Salisbury had published an elaborate 
monograph of the showier Water Lilies as Castalia (1805), leaving 
the name Nymphaea to stand for the remainder of the Linnean genus, 
1. e. the plants which were later taken up under the name Nuphar. 
It is unfortunate that such confusion in the names has prevailed, but 
the principle of priority demands the taking up of Castalia and of 
Nymphaea (Nuphar). 
CASTALIA ODORATA (Ait.) Woodville & Wood, var. gigantea 
(Tricker), n. comb. Nymphaea odorata Ait., var. gigantea Tricker, 
Water Garden (1897) ex Conard, Water Lilies, 186. 
THALICTRUM POLYGAMUM Muhl., var. hebecarpum, n. var., carpellis 
villosis; foliolis subtus plerumque pubescentibus.— Carpels villous: 
lower surfaces of the leaflets usually pubescent.— The northeastern 
extreme of the species, more abundant than the typical form of the 
species in the Gaspé Peninsula and northern Maine, extending to 
Newfoundland, New Hampshire, and southern Ontario. Type 
collected in a gravelly thicket by the St. Lawrence, Riviére du Loup, 
QUEBEC, August 2, 1902 (E. К. Williams & M. L. Fernald). 
FRAGARIA multicipita, n. sp., caespitosa; caudice rarissime stolon- 
ifero in ramos (apud exempla robusta etiam 30-40) breves congestos 
diviso; ramis quibusque folia 3-4 gerentibus; petiolis 2-7 cm. longis 
gracillimis appresse sericeis; foliolis 1-2,5 сіп. longis supra viridibus 
