1909] Eames,— Notes upon the Flora of Newfoundland. 95 
AGRIMONIA STRIATA Michx. York Harbor. 
Rosa viRGINIANA Mill. Bay of Islands. 
Vicra Cracca L.  Birchy Cove. 
LATHYRUS MARITIMUS (L.) Bigel. As observed at Bay of Islands 
and Bay St. George this species-group was perplexing, many plants 
being markedly pubescent, others much less so or glabrous. Later 
studies have shown that Seringe, who was familiar with the two ex- 
tremes, interpreted the Pisum maritimum of Linnaeus as the common 
pubescent plant of northern Europe and Asia, distinguishing as a 
variety, P. maritimum, “В. glabrum (Ser. mss.) foliis. glabris.— In 
Canada.” ! In Newfoundland as elsewhere on the northern coast 
the pubescent plant is rather more common than the plant with gla- 
brous foliage (as well as stem, еїс.). Southward and about the lakes 
of the interior (Oneida L., the Great Lakes, L. Winnipeg) and on 
the coast of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon the glabrous 
plant alone is found. The latter, therefore, seems to be a well de- 
veloped American variety and should be known as L. maritimus 
(L.) Bigel., var. glaber (Seringe) n. comb. 
L. PALUSTRIS L., var. Розов (Cham.) Ledeb. Frequent about 
Bay of Islands. 
EMPETRUM NIGRUM L., var. ANDINUM (Philippi) DC. Local, 
although sometimes plentiful, on dry exposed slopes and summits 
from about 40 m. altitude at Port aux Basques to the higher mountain 
summits, usually in fine angular gravel about rocks and ledges. It is 
closely prostrate, usually in compact mats, in marked distinction to 
the habit of the species. In Newfoundland this variety appears to be 
farther removed from the species than elsewhere known in northeastern 
America, especially in the smaller mature fruit (3-5 mm. in dia.) 
which is light red, in large part a mere tint of the translucent skin 
covering the juicy almost colorless pulp. Other characters are less 
tangible and, like the tomentum, appear to be due to its habitat. 
Such characters are restricted annual growth and smaller leaves less 
rugose in drying or remaining turgid and lucid. Leaves of the season 
have comparatively and actually longer and more slender petioles. 
In studying various specimens of the species it was noted that on 
vigorous stems the leaves sometimes are exactly verticillate, more 
often subverticillate, in 35-65 with marked internodes of 4-5 mm. It 
is polygamous. 
1 Ser. in DC., Prodr. ii, 368 (1825). 
