184 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
THE STATUS OF ARENARIA STRICTA IN NEW 
HAMPSHIRE. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
AMONG the specimens which came to the New England Botanical 
Club in the transfer of the herbarium of the Middlesex Institute to the 
Club was a sheet of Arenaria with the label “Arenaria Groenlandica 
Spreng. Mt. Washington, Aug. 7, 1881. W. H. Manning." The 
sheet which, besides the complete label, bears the small penciled 
field-label of Mr. Manning, has upon it a single flowering branch which 
is unquestionably 4. stricta Michx. Although A. stricta is very rarely 
met east of the calcareous regions of western New England and 
diligent search by many active botanists has failed to show other 
evidence of it upon Mt. Washington, the known occurrence in the 
White Mountain area of a few limited calcareous outcrops and the 
recent discovery there of local plants formerly unknown in the region 
made it advisable to give Mr. Manning's specimen due record in the 
seventh edition of Gray's Manual. 
Recently, however, in looking over a package of specimens from out- 
side New England which came from the collections of the Middlesex 
Institute, I have found a sheet which throws new light upon the matter. 
This sheet has Mr. W. H. Manning's field-label: “Arenaria stricta. 
Glens Falls, N. Y. June 22, 1881. W. Н. М”; but the specimen 
beside which the label is glued is very characteristic A. groenlandica! 
It is quite evident, therefore, that the record of A. stricta from Mt. 
Washington arose through a transposition of labels; for A. groen- 
landica is one of the commonest plants of Mt. Washington, but in 
New York is known almost exclusively from the highest summits of 
the Adirondack, Catskill, and Shawangunk Mountains; and А. 
stricta, otherwise unrecorded from the White Mountains, is in New 
York common “particularly on the banks of rivers and lakes; northern 
and western counties." ! 
Although Arenaria stricta is thus withdrawn from the list of Mt. 
Washington plants, there is a station for it at the southwestern edge of 
the White Mountain area which should be recorded. This colony on 
1 Torr. Fl. М. Y. i. 95 (1843). 
