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immigrant." Mr. Leggett, in response to Prof. Lawson's request, 
made the editorial note that the Alchemilla “was found at Digby, on 
the outskirts of the town in August, 1879, on the road toward 'the 
Joggins'"; and Dr. T. J. W. Burgess recorded Alchemilla vulgaris: 
* found in great abundance about Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, by Pro- 
fessor Macoun and myself in 1883, growing in fields, etc., bordering on 
the sea shore." ! Macoun, in the Catalogue of Canadian Plants, adds 
to the Nova Scotia records North Sydney and Louisburg; and subse- 
quently various stations in Newfoundland and Labrador have been 
reported. In 1906 Miss E. F. Fletcher found a few plants, reported 
as A. pratensis,? in a chicken yard at Westford, Massachusetts. At 
this last station the plant is obviously of casual introduction, and it is 
possible that in Nova Scotia the Alchemilla, as maintained by its 
discoverers, is introduced; but in Newfoundland and Labrador the 
plant is plainly indigenous, forming extensive colonies near streams 
upon calcareous slopes and gravels. 
The varieties of Alchemilla vulgaris in North America, excluding 
Greenland, are as follows: 
* Pubescence of stem and petioles spreading. 
+— Pedicels and branchlets of the inflorescence glabrous: hypanthium glabrous 
or sometimes sparsely hirsute. 
++ Stem hairy nearly up to the pedicels: upper surface of leaf glabrous or 
nearly so. 
A. vuLGARIS L. Sp. Pl. 123 (1753). A. pratensis Schmidt, Flor. 
Boémica inchoata, cent. III. 88 (1794?); Robinson & Fernald in 
Gray, Man. ed. 7, 493 (1908) in part; Rydberg, N. A. Flora XXII. 
378 (1908) in part; Lindberg fil., Die Nord. Alchemilla vulg.-Formen, 
88 (1909). A. vulgaris, eu-vulgaris b. pratensis, Asch. & Graeb. Syn. 
Mitteleurop. Fl. VI. Ab. i. 408 (1902).— Specimens examined. Nova 
Scorta: naturalized, railroad tracks and old fields bordering the sea, 
Yarmouth, June, 1883, 7. J. W. Burgess; banks and meadows along 
the sea-coast, Yarmouth, June 22 & 25, 1883, J. Macoun; roadsides, 
Yarmouth, June 22-29, 1901, Howe & Lang, no. 114; moist roadside- 
bank, Yarmouth, Aug. 19, 1908, Eames & Godfrey, no. 7012; very 
common at Yarmouth, June 5, ——, J. Macoun, no. 80,665; ditches 
along the streets, Digby, Aug. 25, ——, J. Macoun, no. 80,666. 
++ Stem hairy only at the base: leaves hairy above. 
Var. filicaulis (Buser), n. comb. A. filicaulis Buser, Bull. Herb. 
Bois. I. App. ii. 22 (1893); Rydberg, N. A. Flora XXII. 378 (1908). 
.1 T. J. W. Burgess, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XIV. 43 (1887). 
1! See Ruopona, IX. 92 (1907). 
