1912] Fernald and Wiegand,— A Variety of Chelone glabra 225 
anomala and should be so listed. There are still twenty-five Rhode 
Island species which are known to the writer through published 
records only. 
For Connecticut. Lophozia marchica; Bethany (Miss Lorenz). 
The census of New England Hepaticae now stands as follows: 
Total number of species recorded, 177; number recorded from Maine, 
123; from New Hampshire, 130; from Vermont, 109; from Massa- 
chusetts, 96; from Rhode Island, 77; from Connecticut, 134; com- 
mon to all six states, 52. 
YALE UNIVERSITY. 
A NORTHEASTERN VARIETY OF CHELONE GLABRA. 
M. L. Fernatp AND K. M. WIEGAND. 
Tue common Chelone glabra from New England to Kentucky and 
the region of the Great Lakes has leaves of a more or less lanceolate 
outline, gradually tapering to a long slender tip and ordinarily nar- 
rowed to a very short-petioled base. This common plant, judging 
from the Linnean description, * Chelone foliis lanceolatis serratis," ! 
is typical C. glabra. 
In Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, northern Maine and 
Quebec, however, specimens of Chelone show a general tendency to- 
ward a more oblong-ovate outline of the leaves and lower bracts. 
The bases of the upper leaves and foliaceous bracts are also com- 
monly rounded or even occasionally subcordate. On comparing 
this broad-leaved northern extreme with the more southern typical 
C. glabra it becomes apparent that in a majority of the specimens of 
the broad-leaved extreme the leaves increase in size to the base of the 
inflorescence, while in the plant with the lanceolate leaves tapering 
to the petiole the leaves at or near the middle of the stem are larger 
than those above. Occasional specimens in each series, however, 
occur with the middle and upper leaves nearly uniform in size. The 
outline of the leaves is somewhat variable in each series, showing occa- 
sional transitions, so that, although the majority of the specimens 
1 L., Sp. Pl. 611 (1753). 
