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with the uppermost broad and flat and only slightly reduced in length, 
thus simulating those of var. occidentalis. Similar transitional speci- 
mens occur on the continent,—in Quebec, Nova Scotia, New 
Brunswick, Maine, etc.— indicating that northeastward A. marga- 
ritacea of our hot dry pastures passes by numerous gradations to the 
extreme var. occidentalis of the cooler and moister region of the Bay 
of Fundy and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
When Anaphalis margaritacea, var. occidentalis was first described ! 
it was supposed to be restricted to the Pacific slope: “common among 
sand hills of the seaboard from at least middle California to Alaska." 
In 1905? it was considered as belonging to the Pacific slope and to 
the region of the Gulf of St. Lawrence; but now, after studying the 
material in the Gray Herbarium in the light of a fuller field-experience, 
we find that var. occidentalis, like the majority of plants which occur 
both in the Northwest and in the boreal areas of eastern Canada, has 
intermediate areas in the cooler and moister regions across the conti- 
nent,— in the Great Gulf of the White Mountains, about the Upper 
Great Lakes, in the Black Hills, and in the northern Rocky Mts. It 
is, furthermore, discovered that the common plant of northern Asia is 
var. occidentalis rather than typical A. margaritacea as is the plant 
commonly cultivated and now somewhat naturalized in Europe. 
Since it is stated that the cultivated plant of Europe (var. occidentalis) 
was introduced from America “about the sixteenth century,” ° it is 
probable that it was carried thence from Newfoundland or eastern 
Canada. 
The preceding notes may be briefly summarized as follows: 
ANAPHALIS MARGARITACEA (L.) B. € H. Leaves very numerous, 
38-66 (average 51), linear or linear-lanceolate, white-tomentose 
above or tardily glabrate; those immediately below the inflorescence 
1.5-6.5 (av. 3.6) cm. long, 1-3 (av. 2) mm. wide.— Clearings and 
dry sterile soil, eastern Quebec to Alaska, south at least to Pennsyl- 
vania, northern Ohio, South Dakota, New Mexico, and California; * 
apparently rare in Asia. Passing in cooler or moister regions to 
1 Greene, Fl. Franciscana, 399 (1897). 2 Fernald, l. c. 
3 Syme, Engl. Bot. v. 77 (1873). 
«The southern distribution as here given is based upon specimens seen. The 
species has been reported from more southern states,— North Carolina (‘‘Middle and 
Upper Districts," M. A. Curtis), “mountains of the Southern States!” (Torrey & 
Gray), West Virginia (Millspaugh), ete.; but no specimens have been examined by 
the writers from south of Pennsylvania and they are informed by Professor N. L. 
Britton that at the New York Botanical Garden there are no more southern specimens. 
The Ohio record is upon the authority of Professor J. H. Schaffner who has kindly 
verified the occurrence of the plant near Cleveland. 
