162 Rhodora [AvavsT 
Co., August 28, 1868 (J. Fowler): Marne, Larch and Arbor-Vitae 
swamps, St. Francis River, August 13, 1902 (Eggleston & Fernald); 
boggy margin of Chemo Stream, Bradley, July 30, 1895 (Fernald, no. 
375): VERMONT, Porter’s Swamp, Colchester, May 13, 1895, June 28, 
1896 (A. J. Grout): Massacuuserts, Topsfield (Wm. Oakes, Geo. 
B. Emerson); Boxford (J. Robinson, Faxon, Sears); Concord River 
meadows, Bedford, May 27, 1906, May 23, 1909 (Fernald); Charles 
. River meadows, Needham, May 6 and August 26, 1905 (E. F. Wil- 
liams); Brookline, May 10 and 28, 1855 (Wm. Boott); Neponset 
meadows, Readville, August 23, 1892 (E. & C. E. Faxon): CoNNECTI- 
CUT, in sphagnum, Stafford, September 1, 1903 (C. B. Graves); New 
Haven, May 7 and June 2, 1886 (А. L. Winton): New York, Stony 
Creek Ponds, July 6, 1899 (Rowlee, W tegand, & Hastings); Junius 
(Sartwell): New Jersey, Budd’s Lake, June 25, 1869 (T. C. Porter): 
ONTARIO, Peninsula Harbor, Lake Superior, October 3, 1896 (G. S. 
Miller: МіснісАМ, Mackinaw to Sault Ste. Marie (Loring): Iuri- 
NOIS, Peoria (F. Brendel): MANITOBA, near Sidney, June 12, 1906 
(J. Macoun & W. Herriot, no. 70,267): Bnrrisu Cotumsta, Revel- 
stoke, May 27, 1890 (J. Macoun). 
Var. tenuescens, n. var., foliis oblanceolatis vel lineari-oblongis 
utrinque acutis subtus glaucis 6-10 mm. latis; amentis femineis 
fructiferis laxifloris, rhachi 1 mm. crassa; capsulis subulatis 7-10 ` 
mm. longis.— Leaves oblanceolate or linear-oblong, acute at both 
ends, glaucous beneath, 6-10 mm. wide: fruiting aments loosely flow- 
ered; rhachis 1 mm. thick: capsules subulate, 7-10 mm. long.— S. 
myrtilloides, 8. pedicellaris Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 2, 230 
(1868) in part; Bebb in Gray Man. ed. 6, 485 (1890); Britton in 
Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 505 (1896); not S. pedicellaris Pursh.— 
Apparently a rare variety, of which material collected by the writer 
May 23, 1909, on the meadows of the Concord River, Bedford, Massa- 
chusetts, may stand as typical. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
HAIRY-FRUITED VARIATIONS OF RHUS TOXICODEN- 
DRON. 
ALBERT Hanrorp Moore. 
Wai Le looking over some material of Rhus Toxicodendron L. at the 
Gray Herbarium recently, the writer noticed a very curious specimen 
collected by E. B. Chamberlain and G. E. Dinsmore at Bristol, Maine. 
The ordinary northeastern Rhus Toxicodendron has, as the seventh 
edition of Gray’s Manual rightly says, “berries whitish or cream- 
