1912] Fernald & Wiegand,— Alchemilla alpina & A. vulgaris 233 
A. vulgaris *filicaulis ! Murbeck, Bot. Notiser. (1895) 265. A. vul- 
garis 0 minor Briq. in Burnat, Fl. Alp. Marit. IIT. 153 (1899), not A. 
minor Huds. Fl. Ang. 59 (1762) according to Lindberg fil. A. minor 
*filicaulis Lindb. fil. Nord. Alch. vulg.-Form. 96 (1909).— Specimens 
examined. NEWFOUNDLAND: without locality, Sir Joseph Banks; 
open woods, Shoal Point, north of Bay of Islands, June 16, 1896, 
Waghorne; gravel of Steady Brook, near mouth of Humber River, 
July 15, 1910, calcareous cliffs, Steady Brook Falls, July 16, 1910, 
rocks close to water, marble-region of the Humber River, July 18, 
1910, Fernald & Wiegand, nos. 3614, 3615, and 3616. Reported by 
Rydberg from Labrador. 
"— + Pedicels, branchlets of the inflorescence, and the hypanthium hirsute: 
upper surface of leaf hairy. 
Var. vestita (Buser), n. comb. A. minor Huds. Fl. Angl. 59 (1762) 
according to Lindberg fil. 1. c. 91 (1909). A. filicaulis f. vestita Buser, 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. I. App. ii. 23 (1893). A. vulgaris *vestita Murbeck, 
Bot. Notiser. (1895) 265. A. pratensis Robinson & Fernald in Gray, 
Man. ed. 7, 493 (1908) and Rydberg, N. A. Flora XXII. 378 (1908), 
as to Massachusetts plant.— Specimens examined. LABRADOR: 
gravelly border of stream, Forteau, July 30, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, 
no. 3617; abundant by streams and springs on calcareous terraces, 
Blanc Sablon, July 30, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 3618 (also ob- 
served on the QuEBEC side of the Blanc Sablon River). MassACHU- 
SETTS: introduced from Europe in a chicken yard, Westford, Septem- 
ber 22, 1906, Miss E. F. Fletcher (Ruopora, IX. 92 (1907)). 
* * Pubescence of stem and petioles appressed, sometimes very sparse: hy- 
panthium glabrous. 
+ Stems hairy nearly throughout: upper surface of leaves hairy to glabrous; 
veins beneath hairy from below the middle to the apex, and mesophyll 
somewhat hairy: flowers in glomerules. 
Var. comosa (Brenner), n. comb. A. glomerulans Buser, Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. I. App. ii. 30 (1893); Rydberg, N. A. Flora, XXII. 378 (1908) ; 
Lindberg fil. l. c. 105 (1909). A. obtusa, var. comosa M. Brenner, 
Meddel. Soc. p. F. et Fl. Fenn. h. XXIII. 42 (1898). A. vulgaris, 
subsp. sylvestris, B. glomerulans E. G. Camus in Rouy & Camus, Fl. 
Franc. VI. 456 (1900). A. vulgaris *glomerulans Ahlfvengr. in Neu- 
mann och Ahlfvengren, Sveriges Fl. 377 (1901).— Seen by us only 
from Greenland, but reported by Rydberg from Baffin m" Region and 
Labrador. 
+ + Stems hairy only below: upper surface of leaves FERU except rarely 
on the veins; veins below hairy only near the apex; mesophyll glabrous: 
inflorescence diffuse. 
1 As used by the Scandinavian botanists asterisks and similar signs indicate sub- 
species as opposed to varieties. 
