134 Rhodora [Juny 
CAREX LENTICULARIS Michx., var. eucycla, n. var., a forma typica 
recedit perigyniis late ovalibus vel suborbicularibus utroque rotunda- 
tis, 1.8 mm. longis; squamis 9 breviter oblongis vel suborbicularibus 
1.5-2 mm. longis. 
Differing from typical C. lenticularis in having the perigynia broad- 
oval or suborbicular and rounded to base and apex, 1.8 mm. long; 
scales of the pistillate spikes short-oblong or suborbicular, 1.5-2 mm. 
long.— NEWFOUNDLAND: gravelly margin of Birchy Pond Stream, 
East Branch of the Humber, Fernald & Wiegand, nos. 2826, 2833 
(TYPE in Gray Herb.).— In typical C. lenticularis the ovate to narrowly 
elliptical perigynia are acutish at base and apex and 2.2-3 mm. long, 
and the scales are distinctly longer than in the rounder-fruited variety 
from central Newfoundland. Var. eucycla in its short roundish 
perigynia suggests var. paullifructus Kükenthal, described from the 
state of Washington; but that is said to have the pistillate scales with 
broad white-hyaline margins, while var. eucycla has the fuscous scales 
with extremely narrcw or almost imperceptible pale margins. 
SOME MAINE PLANTS. 
RarprH C. Bean. 
Tue following plants, collected for the most part during the summer 
of 1912, have been of special interest to me and the localities for some 
of them are, I think, worth recording. 
EUPHRASIA AMERICANA Wettst. I have been interested in watching 
this plant, which has occupied the same locality — a country roadside 
a half mile south of Clinton Village — for ten years. The area cov- 
ered does not appear to vary, nor have I been able to find other sta- 
tions in the region. My herbarium specimens were collected August 
19, 1904, August 4, 1909, and August 11, 1911. 
PoposrEMON CERATOPHYLLUM Michx. I found this plant first in 
the summer of 1909 in a brook in Winslow. Its strange appearance 
entirely baffled me at the time. I believe it was then the second station 
in Maine. I collected it again in the same brook, which is an outlet 
for Pattee Pond in Winslow, on July 11, 1912. It was growing 
closely adhering to the stones in the shallow water. 
