52 Rhodora [Marcu 
apparently first collected by Miss Kate Furbish, has some of the leaves, 
except for their thinner glossy character, like those of typical Æ. ador- 
tivus, and the heads though somewhat smaller cannot otherwise be 
distinguished from those of that species, which, though less common, 
occurs apparently throughout the range of the round-leaved plant here 
proposed as — 
RANUNCULUS ABORTIVUS, L., var. eucyclus. Stems more slender 
than in the type; the branches slender and flexuous: leaves very thin 
and lucid ; the basal generally of two sorts, some orbicular with a nar- 
row or closed sinus, others reniform as in typical Æ. aborfivus : flowers, 
achenes, and receptacles as in the species, but smaller. — A common 
and striking form in central and northern Maine, first collected by 
Miss Kate Furbish at East Livermore, June, 1888, and subsequently at 
Gilead in 1897. Collected by the author at the following Maine 
stations, generally in moist woods or on shaded river-intervales: St. 
Prancis, August, 1893; Fort Kent, June, 1898 ; Fort Fairfield, July, 
1893, no. 5 ; Houlton, August, 1897 ; Island Falls, September, 1897; 
Dover, June, 1895 ; Orono, June, 1898 ; Waterville, September, 1898. 
A plant with thicker but orbicular and lucid leaves growing in an open 
field at North Berwick (/. C. Partin and M. L. Fernald) is doubtfully 
referred here. In Quebec at Tadousac, Aug. 7, 1892, and Roberval, 
Lake St. John, Aug. 24, 1892 (G. G. Kennedy). Collected also in 
New Hampshire — Ammonoosuc Lake, Crawford Notch, July 4, 1898 
(J. M. Greenman) ; Alstead, August, 1898 (JV. L. W. Field and M. L. 
Fernald), and in western Massachusetts — Williamstown, June 1, 1398 
(7. R. Churchill). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 3.— Anemone riparia : fig. 1, small flowering plant; 
fig. 2, fruiting head. A. virginiana ; fig. 3, fruiting head. A. cylindrica fig. 4, 
fruiting head. 
Eprpactis HELLEBORINE AT STOCKBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. — In 
August, 1898, while I was in Stockbridge, Berkshire Co., Mass., a lady 
brought me two or three fresh specimens of an orchid which she asked 
me to identify. A study of the Manual led me to suspect that it was 
Epipactis Helleborine Crantz, which has been found hitherto only at 
Toronto, Syracuse and Buffalo. Mr. Walter Deane, to whom I gave 
the specimen, confirmed my suspicion. The only piece which I pre- 
served is now in Mr. Deane's herbarium. 
