1910] Fletcher,— Hypericum aureum 55 
Var. INTEGERRIMUM Spring, Mon. Lye. i. 90 (1841). Aleutian 
Islands to Oregon. 
* * Peduncles normally bearing 1 fruiting spike; leaves ordinarily appressed 
or ascending. 
+ Spikes slender-cylindric, at most 5 mm. thick. 
++ Peduncles 0.5-2.5 em. long; spikes 1.5-3.5 (rarely 4) em. long, 3-1 mm. 
thick. 
Var. MONOSTACHYON Grey. & Hook. in Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 375 
(1831). Saguenay Co., Quebec; alpine region of Mt. Washington, 
New Hampshire; Lake Superior; Rocky Mountains from Yukon to 
Alberta and British Columbia; Amur. 
++ ++ Peduncles 45-15 em. long; spike 3.5-11 em. long, 3.5-5 mm, thick. 
Var. MEGASTACHYON Fernald & Bissell. Var. monostachyon of 
many recent authors, not Grev. & Hook. Charlevoix and Gaspé Cos., 
Quebec, and Cape Breton Island to Vermont, western Massachusetts, 
and western and southern Connecticut; and locally westward to 
Michigan; passing to the preceding in subalpine situations. 
+ + Spikes ellipsoid or thick-cylindrie, 1-2.5 em. long, 5-7 mm. thick; 
peduncles 3.5-5.5 cm. long. 
Var. BREVISPICATUM Peck, 54 Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 162 
(1901). Summit of Wallface Mt., New York. 
HYPERICUM AUREUM A CASUAL PLANT IN EASTERN MASSACHU- 
SETTS.— In August 1909 I had a plant brought to me which proved to 
be Hypericum aureum Bartram. It was found by a lady while on a 
ride from Boston. I later learned from her that it was found below 
Billerica where she left her automobile to gather some Thalictrum 
polygamum and not near any garden. A few weeks later one plant 
was found growing near our village in an old lane where the usual 
confusion of bushes grew. The plant was two feet or more high and 
the seed pods of 1908 were still on it. Later I observed plants of the 
same kind in a hedge on private grounds about forty rods away. Birds 
must have carried the seeds.— Eminy F. FLETCHER, Westford, Massa- 
chusetts. 
