106 Rhodora [JUNE 
A BOREAL VARIETY OF FRAGARIA VIRGINIANA.— The plant here 
considered, though recognized before as a species, seems best treated 
as a variety as follows: — 
FRAGARIA VIRGINIANA Duchesne, var. terrae-novae (Rydberg), n. 
comb. F. terrae-novae Rydberg, Mem. Dept. Bot. Columbia Univ. 
ii. 182 (1898). All the Fragaria virginiana from southern Labrador 
and nearly all from western Newfoundland and northeastern Quebec 
differs from the typical form of the species in having the pubescence 
of all the petioles and the scapes closely appressed. In true F. 
virginiana (including F. canadensis Michx.) the petioles at least of 
the earlier leaves have horizontally spreading or even somewhat 
reflexed pubescence. The typical F. virginiana was seen by us in 
western Newfoundland during the past summer only once (a single 
individual among the abundant var. ferrae-novae). Similarly in the 
Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec the var. terrae-novae is everywhere abun- 
dant, while the true F. virginiana with the petioles divergently pubes- 
cent is so unusual that it has been collected as a rarity whenever 
found. The var. terrae-novae is thus parallel in the character of the 
pubescence with F. vesca L., var. americana Porter, Potentilla canaden- 
sis L., var. simplex (Michx.) T. & G. and some other well known 
members of the Rosaceae. It is abundant in southern Labrador, 
ascends on alpine meadows to 1125 m. on Table-top Mountain, 
Gaspé, on walls of the North Basin of Mt. Katahdin to 1290 m., 
is found in Oakes' Gulf of the White Mountains up to 1360 m., and 
is at various stations both inland and coastal in Maine and locally 
in northern Vermont. In the southern part of its range it passes 
very clearly to typical F. virginiana, plants with both types of pubes- 
cence sometimes occurring in the same colonies.— M. L. FERNALD 
and K. M. WIEGAND. 
SOLIDAGO POLYCEPHALA IN MaRYLAND.— While on a collecting 
trip in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, September 4, 1910, T col- 
lected by the roadside between Muirkirk and Contee a Solidago of 
the Section Euthamia which did not appear familiar. It seemed to 
answer to the description of Solidago polycephala Fern. given in the 
seventh edition of Gray's Manual. A comparison of it with the tvpe 
of Euthamia floribunda Greene in the National Herbarium, upon which 
