1908] Fernald,— Lists of New England Plants,— XXI 141 
E. rostellata Torr. is apparently frequent in salt marshes of eastern 
Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It is to be expected in the exten- 
sive marshes of southern Maine. 
E. Torreyana Boeckl. occurs in wet pine-barrens from Florida north 
to New Jersey and it has recently been found by Messrs. C. B. Graves 
and R. W. Woodward on the shores of Beach Pond in Voluntown, 
Connecticut. The head of Beach Pond lies within the state of Rhode 
Island and the botanists of that state should easily extend the range 
of E. Torreyana into their territory. 
E. tricostata Torr. follows the coastal plain from Florida to eastern 
Long Island. It possibly reaches the pine-barren region of southern 
New England, and should be watched for on wet sandy shores of 
ponds. 
Eriophorum angustifolium Roth and its var. majus Schultz are 
abundant on the colder bogs of northern and central Maine and prob- 
ably are of wide distribution in northern New England. 
E. Chamissonis C. A. Meyer and its var. albidum (F. Nylander) 
Fernald occur locally in bogs of eastern Quebec and New Brunswick. 
They delight in the muck of the wettest quagmires and are possibly 
to be found in such situations in northern and eastern Maine. 
E. opacum (Bjórnstr.) Fernald is as yet but little known in New 
England. Its recent discovery in eastern Maine and in northeastern 
Massachusetts suggests that it may be widely distributed in our cold 
bogs. It is less caespitose than E. callitrix (E. vaginatum of Am. 
auth., not L.), forming small loose tufts; its leaves are glabrous instead 
of scabrous; the upper sheaths are close, instead of conspicuously 
inflated; its heads are much smaller; and its bristles sordid instead 
of bright white. 
E. tenellum Nutt., var. monticola Fernald is a characteristic dwarf 
plant (1-2 dm. high), with solitary spikelets, in a quagmire by an 
alpine pond on Table-top Mountain, Gaspé Co., Quebec. It is there 
associated with Scheuchzeria palustris, Carex rariflora, C. limosa, 
C. pauciflora, Rubus Chamaemorus, Potentilla palustris, and so many 
other New England plants, as to indicate the possibility that it occurs 
upon our highest mountains and colder bogs. 
E. viridi-carinatum (Engelm.) Fernald, var. Fellowsii Fernald has 
the spikelets all sessile or subsessile, thus suggesting E. virginicum. 
It largely supplants the typical form of the species in the few stations 
known and may well be sought throughout New England. 
