1913] Blewitt,— Notes on Euphorbia Cyparissias 43 
meadow, New Richmond, July 28-August 1, 1904, Collins, Fernald & 
Pease, July 16 and 17, 1905, Williams, Collins, & Fernald; steep slide 
on the East Branch of Little Cascapedia River, July 29 and 30, 1904, 
Collins, Fernald & Pease; sterile meadow near Giroux Station, Maria, 
July 11, 1905, Collins & Fernald, no. 54.— Hooker (Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 
188) cites var. pallescens from “Lake Winnipeg, to the Saskatchewan, 
and prairies and Lake of the Woods, Rocky Mountains. Drummond," 
but his description does not indicate whether he had the small-flowered 
plant or merely var. multiflora. 
Var. ALPINA Gaud. Agrostol. Helv. ii. 247 (1811). Juncus campes- 
tris n. L. Sp. Pl. 330 (1753). Juncus sudeticus Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 221 
(1799). Luzula sudetica DC. Fl. Fr. vi. 306 (1815). Luzula campes- 
tris, var. sudetica Celak, Prod. Fl. Bóhm. 749 (1881); Buchenau in 
Engler, l. e. 89 (1906), which see for fuller synonymy. Juncoides 
campestre sudeticum Coville, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 208 (1893). 
— Alpine and subarctic regions of Eurasia. Little known in North 
America: the only material seen by us comes from Fullerton, lat. 63^, 
57’, northwest coast of Hupson Bay, J. M. Macoun, no. 79,215. Co- 
ville and Funston’s no. 1553 from near Mineral King, California, has 
been referred here, but the material in the Gray Herbarium, though 
too young for definite determination, has, even in its immature state, 
perianths longer than in var. alpina and the plant may be an extremely 
dwarfed state of var. congesta. 
Nores on EurHorBIa Cyparisstas L.— While returning after a 
day spent collecting in and about West Haven, Connecticut, June 23, 
1912, in company with Mr. C. H. Bissell and Mr. R. W. Woodward, 
we crossed an open corner lot by a path used as a short cut to a near-by 
trolley line. This lot was quite thickly covered with Euphorbia 
Cyparissias L. Remarking that it looked strange I picked several 
plants and found they were heavily fruited and on further inspection 
the whole lot was found to be in full fruit. The reason of the peculiar 
appearance was the bright reddish color of the bracts which was char- 
acteristic of the plants all over the lot. A specimen in fruit in the 
herbarium of Dr. E. H. Eames of Bridgeport, Connecticut, from the 
well known station of Mr. Walter Deane's at Shelburne, New Hamp- 
shire, has been seen by the writer and has this same striking charac- 
teristic. In Mr. Deane's interesting articles in Ruopora no mention 
was made of the color of the bracts. Is this a distinctive trait of all 
fruiting plants of this species? The soil at the station was sandy and 
sterile. Owing to lack of time the station was not carefully looked 
over. The writer is looking forward to a visit to this place at an 
earlier date during the coming season.— ARTHUR E. BLewrrr, Water- 
bury, Connecticut. 
