1911] Fernald € Wiegand,— Cornus canadensis 107 
Fernald's species is based, furnished conclusive evidence of the identi- 
fication. The Manual makes the following statement regarding the 
range of Solidago polycephala: “ Apparently local, s. N. J. and e. Pa” 
Although not unexpected in a new or little known species, the extension 
of range seems worthy of record. It will now be interesting to learn 
whether it is local in this region also. The species is sufficiently 
distinct from S. graminifolia (L.) Salisb. var. Nuttallii (Greene) Fern. 
by reason of its “uncommonly small heads," ! or as Fernald? expresses 
it, “by its tiny involucre,” and its closely appressed scales, tipped with 
green. The green color does not seem to me to be quite so significant 
as has been suggested, for there are not a few specimens of S. gramini- 
folia var. Nuttallii in the National Herbarium which have just as 
green tips.— ALBERT Hanrorp Moore, Washington, D. C. 
CoRNUS CANADENSIS, Var. INTERMEDIA IN EASTERN AMERICA.— 
The common bunch-berry, Cornus canadensis L., has the leaves ordi- 
narily closely crowded and appearing whorled at the summit of the 
nearly naked or only slightly bracted stem. In northwestern America, 
as recently pointed out by Miss Edith M. Farr,’ the common tendency 
of the plant is to have on the middle of the stem 1-3 pairs of well 
developed leaves, which are about one-half or two-thirds as large as 
the upper leaves. This plant, C. canadensis, var. intermedia Farr, 
was earlier described by Ledebour * as a species under the name C. 
unalaschkensis, but because of the pale flowers, the tendency to bunch- 
ing of the upper leaves, and the general similarity of appearance, it 
seems best to class it as a variety of C. canadensis, into which it clearly 
passes. In Labrador and Newfoundland both C. canadensis (typical) 
and var. intermedia occur, and several plants from the northern half 
of Maine and from New Hampshire, which have been collected with 
the hope that they might be C. suecica, approach var. intermedia 
and suggest that the variety may be confidently sought in northern 
New England. From C. suecica, which the variety somewhat simu- 
lates, it is distinguished by having the more acuminate leaves, less 
uniform in size, the upper definitely larger than the lower and preserv- 
1 Euthamia floribunda Greene, Pittonia, v. 74 (1902), not Solidago floribunda Phil. 
2 Solidago polycephala Fern. Ruopona, x. 93 (May 16, 1908). 
3 Contrib. Bot. Lab. Univ. Pennsylvania, ii. 423 (1904). 
4 Fl. Ross. ii. 378 (1844-46). 
