1908] Fernald,— Plants of northeastern America 51 
В. villosus, var. albinus Bailey, Am. Gard. хі. 720 (1890). В. nigro- 
baccus Bailey, var. albinus Bailey, Evolution of Our Native Fruits, 
380 (1898).— As recently shown by Mr. W. Н. Blanchard (RHODORA, 
viii. 217) R. allegheniensis Porter (1896) must be taken up in place of 
R. nigrobaccus Bailey (1898). 
RUBUS ALLEGHENIENSIS Porter, var. calycosus (Fernald), n. comb. 
В. nigrobaccus, var. calycosus Fernald, Ruopora, iii. 234 (1901). 
RUBUS ALLEGHENIENSIS Porter, var. Gravesii (Fernald), n. comb. 
К. nigrobaccus, var. Gravesii Fernald, RHODORA, iii. 295 (1901). 
ASTRAGALUS ALPINUS L., var. Brunetianus, n. var., ramis elongatis 
2—6 dm. longis; foliolis plerumque 15-29; leguminibus maturis vires- 
centibus vel stramineis strigosis, pilis brevis nigris vel albidis.— 
Branches elongate (2-6 dm. long): leaflets usually 15-29: mature 
pods greenish or pale brown, strigose with short black or even whitish 
hairs.— Calcareous ledges and gravelly shores, eastern Quebec to 
Hudson Bay, south to southern New Brunswick, central Maine, and 
Vermont; also abundant in the Rocky Mts. Type collected on 
gravelly shores, Fort Fairfield, Marne, July 18, 1893 (Fernald, no. 
24). Dedicated to the late Abbé Louis Ovide Brunet, of Laval 
University, Quebec, a close student of the flora of Quebec and founder 
of the botanical Museum of his university. The more northern or 
alpine Astragalus alpinus is a smaller plant with fewer leaflets (11—23) 
and with the pods intensely black with long slightly spreading hairs. 
The two extremes clearly pass together as shown by several specimens, 
and the more southern plant has been called by Mr. E. P. Sheldon 
Astragalus giganteus (Pallas) Sheldon (Bull. Geol. and Nat. Hist. 
Surv. Minn. ix. 65): Pallas's A. alpinus, var. giganteus, however, 
upon which Mr. Sheldon based his so-called species, is shown clearly 
by the original plate (Astrag. 42, t. 33) to have little to do with our 
plant, but to be nearer related to A. oroboides. 
LESPEDEZA САРІТАТА Michx., var. velutina (Bicknell), n. comb. 
L. velutina Bicknell, Torreya, i. 102 (1901). L. Bicknellii House, 
Torreya, v. 167 (1905).— Prolonged study in the field has convinced 
the writer that, although L. velutina is a notable extreme of the very 
variable L. capitata, it does not retain its characters with sufficient 
constancy to merit specific rank. j 
CALLITRICHE anceps, n. sp., caulibus valde compressis ancipitis 
humilibus simplicibus vel subsimplicibus 5-25 mm. longis, internodiis 
perbrevibus 1—4 mm. longis; foliis uniformibus linearibus 2-7 mm. 
