120 Rhodora [JUNE 
AN INLAND VARIETY OF PROSERPINACA PALUSTRIS.— Proserpinaca 
palustris L. as it occurs in the coastal districts of eastern America has 
the fruit acutely angled and with three essentially flat faces. In the 
interior of the continent, however, where typical P. palustris is at 
least local, there occurs a plant which is so like it in foliage-character 
that it has passed without question as good P. palustris, but which in 
its extreme development, as shown by plants from the Great Lake 
region and Missouri, has the fruits rounded and plump, with scarcely 
defined angles. The fruit is also slightly smaller than in the best- 
developed P. palustris, but comparison shows several of the eastern 
specimens in which the fruit is scarcely larger. Other specimens from 
the Great Lakes have the fruit definitely though not very sharply angled 
so that, although in its extreme development the plump-fruited plant 
appears quite distinct, it seems more properly treated as an inland 
variety rather than a species, and it may be designated 
PROSERPINACA PALUSTRIS L., var. amblyogona, n. var., fructu 
subgloboso vel ellipsoideo 3.5-4.5 mm. longo 2.5-3.5 mm. crasso, 
angulis obtusis vel rotundatis.— ONTARIO, shore of Georgian Bay, 
Lake Huron, July 31, 1871 (J. Macoun): INp1aNa, wet ditch, Roby, 
July 18, 1906 — түрЕ (O.. E. Lansing, no. 2569): Missounr, swamps, 
Butler County, July 27, 1892 (Н. Eggert), October 15, 1905 (B. F. 
Bush, no. 3700).— М. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
Two Inrropucep PLants.— Early last summer Mr. W. P. Rich 
and I, while exploring the made land at South Boston, near the water 
front, came across large quantities of a fleshy annual. Its general 
appearance was that of young Suaeda, and some of it was actually 
growing under halophytic conditions. About the middle of Septem- 
ber I secured specimens in fruit, not fully matured. When I compared 
it with the true Suaedas it seemed very different, nor did it agree with 
any of the other genera of Chenopodiaceae described in the Manuals. 
Dr. B. L. Robinson of the Gray Herbarium has identified it for me 
as Bassia hirsuta (L.) Aschers. Its synonymy shows that at one time 
or another it has been placed in several different genera of the family. 
It is easily distinguished from Suaeda by its pubescence, and its ovoid 
axillary fruit. It is especially interesting to find a European plant 
adapting itself so readily to halophytic conditions in the New World. 
So far as I know, this is its first appearance here. 
