52 Rhodora [Marcu 
New Carlisle, July 27, 1902, mouth of Bonaventure River, July 31, 
1902, Williams & Fernald. Nova Scorta: island and intervale- 
meadow, Aspy Bay, Cape Breton Island, July 10 and 25, 1909, J. R. 
Churchill; Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, July 12, 1898, J. Macoun; 
Canso, July 11 and 27, 1901, J. Fowler. Marne: damp thicket near 
the sea, Moose Island, Passamaquoddy Bay, July 14, 1909, Fernald, 
no. 1959; Meadow, Pembroke, July 6, 1909, Fernald, No. 1955; 
in humus on rocky bank, Cutler, July 6, 1902, Kennedy and others. 
Massacuusetts: Ipswich, Wm. Oakes; Topsfield, C. N. S. Horner; 
Cambridge, Wm. Boott and others; Dorchester, June 1, 1884, J. R. 
Churchill; dry open field, Polpis, Nantucket, June 3, 1900, M. A. Day, 
no. 52. Rope IsLanD: brackish meadow, Middletown, June 19, 
1903, B. L. Robinson. 
* * * Plant comparatively slender, the wingless or slightly winged stem 
0.3-1 m. high, 0.7-1.5 mm. in diameter below the lowest peduncle; the leaves 
with 2 or 3 pairs of ovate, elliptical or broadly lanceolate leaflets 2-4 cm. 
long and 6-17 mm. wide: peduncles 3-9-flowered: flowers 1-1.5 cm. long. 
Var. MYRTIFOLIUS (Muhl.) Gray. Stem, leaves, etc. glabrous — 
Man. ed. 2, 104 (1856). L. myrtifolius Muhl. in Willd. Sp. iii. 1091 
(1803). ZL. stipulaceus Le Conte in Torr. Cat. Pl. N. Y. 92 (1819).— 
Quebec to Wisconsin, south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and 
Indiana; and reported as occurring westward to Manitoba and south 
to North Carolina and Tennessee. The following specimens are 
representative. QUEBEC: bank of St. Lawrence River below Quebec, 
July 9, 1905, J. R. Churchill. OwTAR10: Ottawa, August 10, 1894, 
J. Macoun, no. 4525. New York: swampy sandy pasture, border 
of Oneida Lake, Lenox, June 20, 1901, J. V. Haberer, no. 213; Seneca 
Lake, July 12, 1834, A. Gray; Penn Yan, Sartwell; Rochester, June 
24, 1858, Wm. Boott; Niagara Falls, Macrae. New Jersey: Bergen 
County, 1862, D. C. Eaton. Onto: Enterprise, Erie County, July 
5, 1894, E. L. Moseley. INDIANA: along Grand Calumet River, 
Miller, Lake County, June 29, 1897, Agnes Chase. MICHIGAN: 
Port Huron, July 8, 1897, C. K. Dodge. Wisconstn: Milwaukee, 
Lapham. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
1Mr. T. G. White included in the synonymy of L. myrtifolius in his Revision of the 
Genus Lathyrus, L. altaicus Ledeb. and L. decaphyllus, var. minor Hook. & Arn. 
There must have been some misinterpretation in the matter, for L. altaicus, a plant 
of the Altai Mts. of Siberia, was described by Ledebour “with leaflets pubescent 
beneath....peduncles 2-4-flowered....legumes densely villous-pubescent’’; while 
L. decaphyllus, var. minor, coming from California, is apparently not referable to 
the eastern L. palustris, var. myrtifolius. 
