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a strong case for the specific recognition of the Newfoundland shrub. 
The impossibility of taking up for E. Eamesú the name E. purpureum 
Raf. has been sufficiently discussed. Similarly its distinctness from 
E. nigrum, var. andinum, with which it has been confused, is apparent 
from the quotation above given from DeCandolle's description. La 
Pylaie, and following him, Asa Gray, identified the shrub without 
question as E. rubrum Vahl, from the Straits of Magellan, the former 
writing: “Le détroit de Magellan produit, comme nos hautes mon- 
tagnes,....l'Empetrum rubrum, que y'ai retrouvé sur la crête des 
monticules de Vile Saint-Pierre. Cette plant est identique avec 
les échantillons magellaniques conservés dans l'herbier de M. DE 
JUSSIEU." But all the Magellanic material examined by the writers 
(several specimens) agrees in being much coarser, with more as- 
cending branches and larger darker-colored opaque berries. 
A NEW FORM OF LILIUM PHILADELPHICUM. 
E. F. WILLIAMS. 
On July 8, 1913, I was driving through an old road in Warren 
township, New Hampshire, when my wife called my attention to a 
yellow flowered Lilium philadelphicum growing by the roadside. We 
left our carriage to secure this unusual form of the species and were 
delighted to find a good many such plants in a sandy clearing near by 
and in thin woods surrounding the clearing. Typical red flowered 
Lilium philadelphicum grew abundantly at this station and perhaps 
twenty per cent of the individuals had petals of about the same shade 
of yellow as typical Lilium canadense. A few plants were of as pale 
a yellow shade as Hemerocallis flava and in one specimen the outer 
whorl of stamens was petaloid and sterile. This old road crosses the 
lower slopes of the southern foot hills of Mt. Moosilauke and it con- 
nects East Warren, a tiny hamlet, with Warren Summit on the Boston & 
Maine Railroad. Many years ago there were seven or eight mountain 
farms on this road but only one remains inhabited. All the others have 
been abandoned for a long time and the road is now seldom used. The 
station for the yellow form of Lilium philadelphicum is about a mile 
