152 Rhodora [ AUGUST 
HAMPSHIRE, hillside, Jaffrey, May 31, 1897, — leaves arachnoid above 
(E. L. Rand and B. L. Robinson, no. 424) : VERMONT, Willoughby, 
June 10, 1898 (G. G. Kennedy and E. F. Williams) ; low open woods, 
Ferrisburgh, June 4, 1899; roadside, Waltham, May 21, 1899, road- 
side, Weybridge, May 23 and June 3, 1899, New Haven Mills, May 25, 
1899, Addison, May 27, 1899, Chipman Hill, Middlebury, May 31, 
1899 (Ezra Brainerd, nos. 14, 48, 52, 54, 56, 59) : MASSACHUSETTS, 
Williamstown, June, 1898 (J. R. Churchill) : CONNECTICUT, wooded 
bank, New Haven, May 17, 1898 (4. W. Evans and M. L. Fernald). 
A. FanwELLH, Greene, Pittonia, iii. 347. Professor Greene based 
this species upon a very immature specimen collected in northern 
Michigan by Mr. O. A. Farwell. Better developed specimens sent 
from Michigan by Professor C. F. Wheeler have been identified with 
one of Mr. Farwell's specimens, and there is little doubt that this is 
the plant which has been collected at various stations in northern New 
England and Canada. 
The species may be briefly characterized as follows: Stems stout, 
mostly rather low, occasionally 3.5 or 4 dm. tall: basal leaves 4.5 to 8 
cm. long, gray above with nearly permanent pubescence, spatulate or 
narrowly obovate-spatulate, with rounded tips, conspicuously 3-nerved ; 
cauline leaves from lanceolate to oblanceolate, usually rather conspicu- 
ous: inflorescence subcapitate, or the heads on only short pedicels: 
involucre 8 to 10.5 mm. high, the bracts about 3-seriate, from lanceo- 
late to oblong, with conspicuous white tips, the outer obtuse, broader 
than the inner bluntish or acute ones. In New England known from 
MAINE, dry sterile soil, North Berwick, June 4, 1899 (J. C. Parlin, no. 
1157) : New HAMPSHIRE, barren ledges in open woods, lower slopes of 
Mt. Deception, Fabyan, June 20, 1898 (Æ. F. Williams) ; Alstead, 
July 4, 1898 (M. L. Fernald): VERMONT, abundant about Middle- 
bury, May 20, 1880, May and June 1898, 1899 (Ezra Brainerd, 
NOS. 29, 30, 39, 42, 46, etc.) ; New Haven, May 21, 1899; Cornwall, 
May 23, 1899; Addison, May 27, 1899 (Ezra Brainerd, nos. 31, 
34, 37) ; Rutland, June 2, 1899 (W. W. Eggleston). Also examined 
from ONTARIO, fields about Ottawa, June, 1898 (J. M. Macoun in 
Herb. Can. Geol. Surv. no. 18,809), and from MICHIGAN, sterile fields 
and bluffs, Keweenaw Co., April, 1884 (O. A. Farwell); campus, 
Agricultural College, June 9, 1898 (C. F. Wheeler). A very hand- 
some and well-marked species, in habit nearest resembling 4. améigens, 
but quickly distinguished from that by its basal leaves, etc.(see above). 
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