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but the plants do not appear to be dwarfed. "The halophytic Old 
Guard, though surrounded by advancing enemies, is not yet ready to 
surrender. 
MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS. 
NOTE ON BOEHMERIA CYLINDRICA, VAR. DRUM- 
MONDIANA. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
In 1854, in his Revue de la Famille des Urticées, Weddell described 
from Texas a Boehmeria as follows: “ B. DRUMMONDIANA f: foliis 
ovatis, acutis, subacuminatis, basi subcordatis, serratis, rigidulis, 
supra hispidulis demum glabratis asperrimis, subtus molliter pubes- 
centi-tomentosis; spicis brevibus, erectis.— 'l'exas (Drummond, pl. 
exs., no. 267). 
Subsequently, however, Weddell concluded that the plant was only 
a variety of Boehmeria cylindrica (L.) Sw., treating it in DeCandolle’s 
Prodromus as B. cylindrica, 8, Drummondiana.? 
In 1889, Porter, describing a plant which is found in bogs of New 
Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania characterized it as follows: ‘“Boeh- 
meria cylindrica, Willd., var. SCABRA, n. var.— Erect, strict, 2 feet 
high; leaves thick and rigid, very rough on the upper surface, 
tomentose beneath, on short petioles or almost sessile [,] usually 
reflexed and pressed against the stem; spikes densely flowered, much 
longer than the petioles.” | 
Under the name, var. scabra Porter, the plant with the leaves harsh 
above and more or less tomentulose beneath has been generally taken 
up, and Small has advanced it to specific rank as Boehmeria scabra 
(Porter) Small,’ with a range extending from “ New York to Michigan, 
Kansas, Florida and Texas.” But no one in recent years seems to 
1 Weddell, Ann. des Sci. Nat. 4me Sér., i. 201 (1854). 
2 B. cylindrica is very commonly cited as dating from Willd. Sp. iv. 340 (1805); but 
it was clearly published in Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind, Occ. 34 (1788). 
3 Weddell in D. C. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 202 (1869). 
4 Porter, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xvi. 21 (1889). 
5 Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 358 (1903). 
