136 Rhodora . [JuLy 
tracted, almost spiciform, somewhat flexuous; empty glumes narrower 
and somewhat thinner"; do not properly distinguish the plants, for 
these characters are found abundantly interchanged in specimens with 
both large and small spikelets. We would, therefore, rest the var. 
debilis simply on its smaller spikelets rather than upon the inconstant 
vegetative characters originally used. 
Of the 39 collections of C. Pickeringii, var. debilis examined by us, 
the following are from outside Newfoundland and it may be of interest 
to New England botanists to have a record of the stations. NEw 
Hampsuire: dry bank by B. € M. R. R., 1 mile south of the village, 
Lancaster, A. S. Pease, no. 12, 272; head of Oakes Gulf, Mt. Washing- 
ton, Faxon; Mt. Monroe, Faxon; Ethans Pond, Mt. Willey, Pringle 
(distributed as C. Pickeringii, var.), Faxon; Echo Lake, Franconia, 
William Boott, 1861 (labeled by Dr. Gray “var.”), J. W. Chickering 
(labeled by Dr. Gray “ = Boott's pl.”), Faxon; Profile Lake, Fran- 
conia, Faxon; in sand by cascade, Albany Intervale, W. G. Farlow; 
meadows, frequent, West Thornton, A. S. Pease, no. 2513; Pelham, 
F. W. Batchelder. MassaAcuusETTS: north of Haggetts’ Pond, An- 
dover, J. Robinson; Fish Brook meadows, Andover, A. S. Pease, nos. 
2368, 4260.— M. L. FERNALD and K. M. WIEGAND. 
Vol. 15, no. 174, including pages 100 to 116 and plate 104, was issued 
11 June, 1918. 
