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material shows, the more pubescent extreme is confined to the north- 
eastern section of the continent,— from Labrador and Ungava to 
Lake Winnipeg, south to northern New England and Wisconsin,— 
and does not extend in its extreme development so far south as the 
smoother form. This very pubescent variety is without question 
the Xylosteum villosum of Michaux,' upon which Torrey & Gray based 
their Lonicera cerulea, var. villosa2 In the original description Mich- 
aux characterizes the shrub as “X. ramis villosis: foliis. . . utrinque 
subtomentoso-villosissimis," and upon examination of the Michaux 
type by one of the writers? the following note was made: “Most 
extremely pubescent form from ‘Lac des Cygnes [one of the sources 
of Mistassini River, Saguenay Co., Quebec], Mistassin et Riv. des 
Goelands." * This variety has received a second name, var. cana- 
densis Delamare, Renault & Cardot,? ascribed by its authors to La- 
marck, who seems not to have published such a combination, and 
based upon Xylosteum Solonis Eaton.’ This X. Solonis, based by 
Eaton upon material “found on the White Mountains (N. H.) by Dr. 
D. Solon," was described as having "villose" leaves, and since true 
var. villosa is well known from the White Mountain region there is 
little question that Xylosteum villosum Michx. and X. Solonis Eaton 
are the same. So far as the writers have been able to discover, the 
widely distributed American shrub with glabrous or glabrate twigs 
has received no name and is here proposed as 
LoNICERA CAERULEA L., var. calvescens n. var, a var. villosa 
recedit foliis tenuiter pilosis vel glabratis, ramis novellis glabris vel 
tantum puberulis vel tenuiter pilosis demum glabratis. 
! Michx. Fl. i. 106 (1803). 
2? T. & G. Fl. ii. 9 (1841). s 
3 The Michaux Herbarium was studied by Mr. Fernald during the summer of 1903. 
‘ Riviere des Goelands was Michaux's name for one of the branches of Rupert 
River, in southwestern Ungava. In Michaux's Journal for September 11, 1792, he 
says: ''ll est trés évident que le Pays situé entre le Lac des Cygnes et le Lac Mistassin 
est le plus élevé, car le Lac Mistassin se décharge dans la Baye d' Hudson par la riv. 
des Nids de Goelands qui coule au N. Ouest et le Lac des Cygnes se décharge dans le 
Fleuve Snt. Laurent par la riv. Mistassin, par le Lac Snt. Jean, par la riv. Chicou- 
toumé et enfin par la riv. Seganay jusqu'au Tadoussack ou elle rencontre le fl. St. 
Laurent. C'est avec difficulté que je nomme Riviérre Mistassin la riv. que coule 
depuis le Lac des Cygnes jusqu' au Lac St. Jean. J'ay fait cette observation aux 
Canadiens qui vont traiter dans ce Pays avec Sauvages. Ils m'ont dit que l'on 
croyoit autrefois que l'on pouvoit remonter cette riviérre jusqu'au lac Mistassin et 
que c'est pour cette raison qu'elle a été ainsi nommé par les Missionnaires Jesuites'' — 
Journal of André Michaux, 1787-1796, ed. C. S. Sargent (Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. xx vi. 
no. 129) p. 85 (1888). 
* Delamare, Renauld & Cardot, Fl. de l'ile Miquelon, 21 (1888). 
å Eaton, Man. 26 (1817). 
