88 Rhodora [May 
2 dm. high, with appressed or slightly spreading pale and slightly 
nigrescent pubescence: spike short, subcapitate, with 3 to ro blue or 
blue and white flowers: calyx with nigrescent hairs amongst the sub- 
appressed paler ones: legume of thin papery texture, oblong or ovoid, 
long-acuminate, 15 to 18 mm. long, with appressed nigrescent and pale 
hairs; the dorsal suture with a slight intrusion. — Synop. 181 ; Gray, 
Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 6, as to Labrador plant; Wats. & Coult. in Gray, 
Man. ed. 6, 137, in part. O. campestris, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 
235, in part, not DC. Spiesia campestris, Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. ii. 
308, as to Labrador and Hudson bay plant, not Kuntze. — In America 
known only from Labrador and the region of Hudson strait: barren 
hilltop, Square Island, Labrador, Aug. 16, 1882 ( 7. A. Aden, no. 37) ; 
Red Bay, July 12, 1891, Battle Harbor, July 18, 1891, Indian Harbor, 
Hamilton Inlet, August 2, 1891 (Bowdoin College Exped. nos. 23, 91, 
178); Nain, August 11, 1897, Rama, August 20-24, 1897 (/. D. 
Sornborger, nos. 33, 34) ; Cape Chudleigh, August 5, 1884 (R. Bell) ; 
Ungava Bay, 1884 (Z. M. Turner); Fort Chimo, September, 1896 
( A. P. Low in Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 16,300). 
Var. Johannensis. Much larger throughout: leaves in well de- 
veloped plants 2 dm. (becoming nearly 3 dm.) long; leaflets mostly 
larger, in maturity 2 or 3 cm. long: peduncles abundant (occasionally 
as many as 60), 1.5 to 3.5 dm long: spikes with about 12 rose-colored 
(rarely white) flowers, drying bluish; in fruit becoming 5 to 12 cm. 
long: legumes 2 to 2.5 cm. long, with a less apparent internal projec- 
tion of the dorsal suture. — O. Laméerti a, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 147 
(excluding cited figures). O. Lambert 8 ?, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 339; 
Gray, acc. to Goodale in Prelim. Rep. Nat. Hist. & Geol. Me. (1861) 
366. O. Lamberti, var. sericea, Fernald in Hay, Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. 
N. B. xii. 69 & Proc. Portl. Soc. Nat. Hist. ii. 79 ; not Gray. O. Uralen- 
sis B, Gray, acc. to Goodale, l. c. (1862) 125, not Torr. & Gray. O. 
campestris, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 235, as to Maine plant& Man. 
ed. 5, 133, not DC. O. campestris, var. caerulea, Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xx. 6, in part (Northern Maine & Lower Canada); Wats. & 
Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 137, in part; not Koch. Spresta campes- 
tris, Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. ii. 308, in part (Quebec, Maine and New 
Brunswick), not Kuntze. — A handsome plant, flowering in June and 
early July, often abundant on the gravelly river-beaches of the St. John 
and its tributaries in northern Maine and New Brunswick ; also 
on the Restigouche, and long known from the St. Lawrence valley 
near Quebec. Specimens examined: Isle d'Orleans, below Quebec 
(Mrs. Shepard, Prof. Brunet) ; on the St. John near Seven Islands, 
Maine, 1861 (G. £. Goodale) ; Fort Kent, Maine, 1881 (Kaze Fur- 
bish) ; in great abundance on the Fish River delta, Fort Kent, June 15, 
1898 (M. L. Fernald, no. 2289) ; Grand Isle, Maine, June 20, 1898 
(M. L. Fernald, no. 2290) ; Van Buren, Maine, July 21, 1893 (M. Z. 
Fernald, no. 25) ; by the Aroostook river, Caribou, 1880 (Kate Fur- 
