148 Rhodora [Ассозт 
glabrous V. pennsylvanicum and its equally glabrous var. angusti- 
folium but should be given varietal recognition as 
VACCINIUM PENNSYLVANICUM Lam., var. myrtilloides (Michx.) 
n. comb. V. myrtilloides Michx. Fl. i. 234 (1803). 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
DRABA AUREA IN Rimouski County, QuEBEC.— In RHODORA vii. 
267 (1905) I reported as Draba borealis D€. a plant found in fruit on 
seacliffs at Bic, Rimouski County, Quebec. Subsequently I have 
been able to examine the Bic plant at several stations and to secure 
excellent flowering material. "Тһе petals prove to be, not white as in 
D. borealis to which the plant was originally referred, but golden 
yellow, in this character differing strikingly from the other species 
of Draba known from the lower St. Lawrence. The Bic plant when 
well developed is by far the largest species of the genus in eastern 
America, the luxuriant plants producing as many as fifty fruiting 
branches, the thick and very brittle leaves being 1.5-2 cm. broad, 
and the mature pods 1.2-1.8 cm. long. Although these luxuriant 
specimens are much larger and have broader leaves than most her- 
barium specimens of D. aurea Vahl, smaller individuals are apparently 
identical with that polar species. As noted in the original report of 
the Bic plant (as D. borealis) the juicy leaves and young tips are freely 
eaten by the Herring Gulls which nest on the limestone rocks at Bic 
where Draba aurea abounds.— M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
A NEW STATION FOR HrERACIUM PRATENSE.— For the last three or 
four years I have noticed a Hieracium of rather unfamiliar appear- 
ance growing in a field near Norwood Cove, at Southwest Harbor, 
Mount Desert Island, Maine. This year I found plants of the same 
species in several other fields, not only in the neighborhood, but near 
Western Mountain and near Beech Hill. On examination it proves 
to be H. pratense Tausch, an introduced plant of very limited range 
in this country. It has been reported by Mr. Emile F. Williams as 
occurring at Van Buren, Maine, (Кнорока, III. 36), but I think not 
elsewhere in New England.— Sam A. Lurvey, Southwest Harbor, 
Maine. 
Vol. 10, no. 116, including pages 117 to 132 was issued 15 August, 1908. 
