48 Rhodora [MARCH 
* Stachys annua L., S. Italica Mill. (not *S. Germanica L.), Vicia 
hirsuta Koch. 
It will be noticed that no grasses are mentioned. These, and a 
few other doubtful plants, may be added later. Plants that have been 
collected but once are (with a few exceptions) omitted. 
PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
TWO PLANTS OF THE CROWFOOT FAMILY. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
(Plate 3.) 
AMONG the most beautiful early summer flowers in northern New 
England is a tall white anemone of the river-banks. Growing ordina- 
rily in the crevices of ledges and river-cliffs or on their gravelly talus- 
slopes, spots rarely visited except by occasional botanists or geologists, 
this plant is by no means so well known in the regions where both 
grow as the very attractive, but distinctly less graceful, Anemone cana- 
densis (A. pennsylvanica). In the Maine station — beneath arbor-vite 
on calcareous-slate cliffs and ledges by the Piscataquis, in Dover — 
where the tall slender plant has been most familiar to me, it is associ- 
ated with a host of northern or lime-loving species, as Cystopteris 
bulbifera, Graphephorum melicoideum, Scirpus Clintonit, Rosa blanda, 
Amelanchier rotundifolia, Vitis vulpina (V. riparia), Lobelia Kalmit, 
and Erigeron hyssopifolius. 
For several years, while clambering about these rocky banks, sup- 
posing the plant to be Anemone virginiana, 1 regularly passed it with- 
out special thought. Later, however, when the coarse 4. virginiana, 
with its usually insignificant greenish flowers, had become familiar to 
me, I looked forward to the time when I could study critically the 
slender white-flowered plant of the north. 
In late August, 1897, the plants, then in over-ripe fruit, were care- 
fully examined, and during September fruiting plants were studied also 
at other points in Aroostook and Penobscot Counties. In the follow- 
ing June (1898) the Dover station was visited, and at that time, June 
11, the steep sheltered bank was everywhere flecked with the clear- 
white flowers of the anemone. 
Upon further study, the Dover plant proves to be identical with a 
