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EUPATORIUM URTICAEFOLIUM Reichard, var. villicaule, n. var., 
caule petiolisque sordido-villosis.— Stem and petioles sordid-villous; 
otherwise as in the typical form.— VIRGINIA, Bedford Co., 1871 
(A. H. Curtiss). 
SOLIDAGO PETIOLARIS Ait., var. Wardii (Britton), n. comb. S. 
Таға Britton, Man. 935 (1901). — Differing from S. petiolaris only 
in the firmer more glutinous and therefore more lustrous foliage. 
Sonrpaao HISPIDA Muhl., var. lanata (Hook.), n. comb. S. lanata 
Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 4 (1834). 8. bicolor, хат. lanata Gray, Proc. 
Am. Acad. xvii. 190 (1882).— Plants from the banks of the Little 
Cascapedia and Grand Cascapedia Rivers, and other portions of the 
Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, are identical with the original material 
collected by Drummond on the Plains of the Saskatchewan. 
Sorrpaao calcicola (Fernald), n. comb. S. Virgaurea, var. calci- 
cola Fernald, Ruopora, i. 190 (1899).— Recent detailed studies of 
types and authentie specimens of this group have convinced the 
writer that we have in eastern America no plant which can satisfac- 
torily be placed with the Eurasian S. Virgaurea. The nearest Ameri- 
can ally of that species, as understood by the writer, is S. macrophylla 
Pursh, which, however, is distinct in its longer involucre, etc. S. cal- 
cicola also simulates forms of S. Virgaurea but is quickly distinguished 
by its firmer more herbaceous bracts and much shorter achenes (only 
1-2 mm. long). Its range is now extended from the northeastern 
border of Maine to the limestone mountains of Gaspé Co., Quebec. 
SornrpAao Cutleri, n. nom. S. Virgaurea, var. alpina Bigelow, 
Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 307 (1824). 8. alpestris Porter, Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Cl. xx; 210 (1893) and other Am. authors, not Waldst. & Kit. in 
Willd. Sp. iii. 2065 (1804).— The late Dr. Porter considered this 
plant identical with the Old World S. alpestris; but that species as 
shown by many European specimens, as well as Waldstein & Kitaibel's 
own beautiful plate (Ic. t. 208), is very unlike the alpine plant of Bige- 
low. In fact, it is superficially very similar to the dwarfed alpine 
variety thyrsoidea? of S. macrophylla, having thinnish leaves with 
the closely sharp-serrate elliptic or ovate blades rather abruptly 
narrowed to the slender petiole; and its involucral bracts are thin and 
linear-attenuate. S. Cutleri? on the other hand, has the thick obovate 
1 RHODORA, viii, 228 (1906). 
2Since the name Solidago alpina has been twice used and there is already a S. Bige- 
lomi, it is appropriate that our alpine Goldenrod should bear the name of the distin- 
guished New England botanist and pioneer explorer of the White Mountains, MANASSEH 
CUTLER. 
