1909] . Pease,— Juncus new to New England 31 
Andrewsii White, for which the new. Manual gives South Chesterville 
as: one of its two stations, the other being Pownal, Vt., swells the list 
of Chesterville orchids to twenty-nine — not a bad showing for one 
small town.— Litan О. Eaton, Mt. Vernon, Maine. 
A PUBESCENT VARIETY OF ASTER DUMOSUS.— In a large collection 
of Michigan plants collected the past year by Mr. C. K. Dodge there 
is an Aster of unusual interest. ‘The plant, which is stated by Mr. 
Dodge to be ‘‘very common on Hersen Island and all islands formed 
by the mouths of the St. Clair River, in damp and marshy ground," 
is superficially like Aster dumosus L., var. strictior T. & G. In fact 
it would at first sight pass as a good match for one of the original 
sheets of var. strictior collected by Pitcher at Fort Gratiot, Michigan, 
апа later material from: Sandwich, Ontario. ‘The var. sfrictior, 
however, like the other described variations of A. dumosus, is an 
essentially glabrous plant, while the characteristic plant from the 
islands at the mouth of the St. Clair River has its stem and to some 
extent its leaves cinereous with very dense short harsh pubescence. 
In this character the plant is comparable with A. paniculatus Lam., 
var. cinerascens Fernald. ‘The plant from Michigan may be desig- 
nated. i 
ASTER DUMOSUS L., var. Dodgei, n. var., omnino ut var. strictior 
sed caule dense scabro-puberulo, pilis cinereis; foliis scabris puberulis. 
— МіснівАХ, in damp and marshy ground on Hersen Island and 
other islands at the mouth of the St. Clair River, St. Clair County, 
September 17, 1908 (C. K. Dodge, nos. 84, 85).— M. L. FERNALD, 
Gray Herbarium. 
A Juncus new то New ENxaraAND.— On 16 August, 1907, while 
climbing Table Rock at Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, I collected 
on the talus slopes a specimen of what I at the time supposed to be 
Juncus trifidus L. Upon comparison, however, with specimens at 
the Gray Herbarium, it appeared to be Juncus trifidus L., var. monan- 
thos (Jacq.) Bluff & Fingerhuth, a variety not reported in the seventh 
edition of Gray's Manual as occurring north of southern New York. 
Its presence at Dixville indicates that it should be searched for at other 
points in New England.— ARTHUR STANLEY Pease, Cambridge, Mass- 
achusetts. 
