io T РТ 
p ETE 
1908] Fernald,— Plants of northeastern America 89 
comparatively elongate pedicels (5-15 or even 25 mm. long) Its 
stem is exceedingly leafy, the subuniform or very gradually smaller 
oblanceolate or linear cauline leaves numbering, in well developed 
plants, 10 to 30 or more and commonly bearing small fascicles of 
leaves in their axils. Its obscurely ribbed oblanceolate basal leaves 
are 3-12 cm. long, 5-7 mm. broad. This distinct plant occurs on 
more or less calcareous cliffs and ledgy shores, from the Aroostook 
River, New Brunswick, to the Potomac, and locally westward to the 
sand-hills of Lake Michigan. Dr. Gray, on returning from a study 
of types of American Goldenrods in European herbaria, identified! 
this plant with Pursh’s S. humilis; but an examination of Pursh's 
type, now preserved at the British Museum of Natural History, shows 
that this conclusion must have been reached through some confusion 
of data. 
As Dr. Gray clearly states the Pursh type was “the Newfoundland 
plant, in herb. Banks, where Solander indicated the species.” ! A 
photograph of this original sheet in the Banks herbarium and notes 
taken by the writer show that there are three individual plants upon it. 
In the middle of the sheet is а specimen with seven very long leaves, 
all but the uppermost long-petioled, the middle one more than one 
third as long as the full height of the plant. The inflorescence is an 
interrupted more or less wand-like panicle. This specimen, which 
bears the data (on the reverse side of the sheet) “Newfoundland J. 
B.,” was correctly indicated by a note on the sheet in Dr. Gray's . 
hand as the original of S. humilis Pursh. The other two plants on 
the sheet are clearly of one collection and bear the data, ‘‘Amer. 
Sept. Hudson Bay, Albany Fort, 1781," and are marked by Dr. 
Gray: “Perhaps is the S. stricta Torr. & Gray, Fl. non Ait. A. 
Gray, 1881." "These plants from Hudson Bay are, as identified by 
Dr. Gray, clearly S. uliginosa Nutt. (S. stricta Torr. & Gray, not Ait.); 
but the Newfoundland plant collected by Banks is less obviously that 
species and may be an uncharacteristic S. uniligulata (DC.) Porter. 
As shown by the manuscript descriptions of the Banks plants pre- 
served at the British Museum, Solander had written a description 
(p. 321) to cover a Bartram plant from Florida and the Banks plant 
from Newfoundland. Subsequently, however, Dryander altered the 
description to include the Hudson Bay specimen but to exclude the 
Florida plant; and Pursh in his Flora (p. 543) took his description 
1 Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. 2, 148 (1884). 
