1911] Fernald € Wiegand,— Antennaria and Anaphalis 25 
1896, Cornell Party. LABRADOR: near Hebron, Mentzel; Rama, August 
20, 1897, J. D. Sornborger, no. 156; Port Manvers, August 11, 1900, 
E. B. Delabarre. NEWFOUNDLAND: dry limestone barrens, Pointe 
Riche, August 4, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 4139 (TYPE in Gray 
Herb.); dry limestone barrens, altitude 200-300 m., Table Mountain, 
Port au Port Bay, August 16, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 4141. 
Although the character here used to distinguish the var. cana is 
often used as a key-character to separate such species as A. neodioica 
Greene and A. canadensis Greene or A. plantaginifolia (L.) Richard- 
son and A. Parlinii Fernald, it is found in those cases to be only one 
of several characters which differentiate the species. In A. alpina, 
var. cana, however, we have been unable to find any other character 
by which the plant may be separated from A. alpina. It is of course 
barely possible that var. cana may eventually prove to be specifically 
distinct, but the writers are rather of the opinion that, when better 
known, A. alpina will be found to be a cireumpolar species and that 
many high-northern and alpine plants which have been recently put 
forward as species will prove to be better treated as geographic varie- 
ties or else as subspecies. 
ANAPHALIS MARGARITACEA AND ITS VAR. OCCIDENTALIS. 
In 1905 Anaphalis margaritacea, var. occidentalis Greene, with the 
very large flat leaves bright green and glabrous above, was reported ! 
from Gaspé County, Quebec, and from southwestern Newfoundland; 
and subsequently, prior to the issue of the 7th edition of Gray's 
Manual, it was found to extend up the St. Lawrence to the north- 
eastern edge of the Manualrange. In the summer of 1909 the present 
writers found the variety, sometimes in most characteristic develop- 
ment, sometimes passing very clearly to the ordinary form of the 
species (which has the shorter narrower upper leaves usually whitened 
above and tending to become revolute at the margins) at various 
stations on the coast of Washington County, Maine, and in the valleys 
of the St. John and Aroostook Rivers; and during the past summer, 
in Newfoundland, further observations have been made with the 
conclusion that, so far as our experience and herbarium materials 
show, typical A. margaritacea, such as is widely distributed from New 
Brunswick across New England, is unknown in Newfoundland. In 
its place are found characteristic var. occidentalis or a form with the 
leaves quite as pubescent above as those of 4. margaritacea, but 
1 Fernald, Ruopona, vii. 156 (1905). 
