138 Rhodora [JuLv 
species, maturing its greenish-brown or drab umbels in early summer, 
and a stouter plant of broader southern range maturing its ferruginous 
umbels in late summer or fall. The New England forms of these 
plants may be summarized as follows : 
Culms stout (just below the involucre averaging 3 mm. in diameter): leaves 4.5 to 
II (average 6) mm. wide: involucre usually ferruginous at base: scales and 
bristles ferruginous. 
Spikelets ovate to ovoid-oblong, 3.5 to 6 (average 4.5) mm. long. 
Rays of umbel elongated, ascending or spreading: spikelets in glomerules of 
3 or more (eastern Maine, southward and westward). 
S. Eriophorum, vax. cyperinus, Gray. 
Rays of umbel short (6 cm. or less in length) : glomerules in dense masses 
(eastern Maine and eastern Massachusetts). 
S. Eriophorum, var. condensatus, Fernald. 
Spikelets oblong, 7 to 10 mm. long: 
Rays of umbel elongated and pendulous: glomerules with many spikelets 
(central Connecticut). . . . . S. Eriophorum, var. Andrezwsti, Fernald, 
Culms slender (averaging 1.5 mm. in diameter): leaves 2 to 5 (average 3.5) mm. 
wide: involucre black at base: scales greenish black: bristles drab or olive- 
brown, not ferruginous. 
Rays of umbel slender and elongated, with SURE tips (from central Con- 
necticut northward). -. . . . S. atrocinctus, Fernald. 
Rays of umbel short; inflorescence capitate or subcapitate (northeastern 
Massachusetts northward, mostly in the mountains). 
S. atrocinctus, var. brachypodus, Fernald. 
THE LOCAL FLORAS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
Mary A. Day. 
(Continued from p. 120.) 
New HAMPSHIRE. 
. Coós, Carroll, and Grafton Counties (White Mountain Region) : — 
gt. Jesup, Henry Griswold. CATALOGUE OF THE MORE COMMON 
PLANTS TO BE FOUND WITHIN TWELVE MILES OF HANOVER, N. H., 
DURING APRIL, MAY AND JUNE, BOTH NATIVE AND INTRODUCED. 
Hanover, N. H. 1879, pp. 14. Annot. catalog. phaenog. 
and crypiog. 
A PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND 
92. 
HIGHER CRYPTOGAMS GROWING WITHOUT CULTIVATION WITHIN THIRTY 
MILES OF HANOVER, N. H., TO WHICH IS APPENDED A LIST OF THE 
VERTEBRATES OF THE SAME REGION. Hanover, N. H. 1882, pp. 
74. Annot. catalog. ¿phaenog. and cryptog. 
93. A CATALOGUE OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND HIGHER CRYPTO- 
GAMS, BOTH NATIVE AND INTRODUCED, FOUND WITHIN ABOUT THIRTY 
MILES OF HANOVER, N. H., INCLUDING A FEW CULTIVATED SPECIES, 
TO WHICH IS APPENDED A LIST OF VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE 
SAME REGION. Hanover, N: H. 1891, pp. 91. Map. Annot. 
catalog. ¿Phaenog. and cryptoz. : 
