218 Rhodora [DECEMBER 
from East Warren and is now a wild and solitary spot. I have been 
unable to find any reference in botanical literature to this remarkable 
variation from the type and Prof. Fernald of the Gray Herbarium has 
advised me to put this form on record. Inquiry among the members 
of the New England Botanical Club and others, has brought forth 
information about three other stations for this color form. Dr. Dana 
W. Fellows tells me that he has found it at Cape Elizabeth, near 
Portland, Maine. Mr. Charles W. Parker writes me that “five or six 
years ago I found a specimen growing by the roadside in Bath, Maine. 
I took up the bulb and brought it home to Marblehead Neck, planted 
it, but never saw it afterwards. Two or three years ago, a gardener 
for Mr. Hollander, of Marblehead Neck, brought me another specimen 
(found at Marblehead). I planted that and lost it also." It seems 
worth while to give a name to this unusual form of this beautiful lily 
of our native flora and I propose 
LILIUM PHILADELPHICUM L. forma flaviflorum, forma nova, formae 
typicae statura habitu foliis etc. simile differt segmentis perianthii 
flavis (nec rubris) eum maculis laetius purpureis ornatis.— Perianth- 
divisions clear yellow splashed with purplish spots, inside, near the 
base not so deeply colored as in the typical plants.— Type sheet in 
Gray Herbarium from Warren, N. H. Other stations reported, 
Bath, Me., Cape Elizabeth, Me., Marblehead, Mass. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
ELYMUS ARENARIUS AT PROVINCETOWN — NATIVE 
OR INTRODUCED ? 
Jonn Mvunpocnu, Jn. 
In 1904 the writer collected on the beach at Provincetown, Massa- 
chusetts, two specimens of a grass which, at the time of pressing, 
seemed to him to resemble the descriptions of Elymus arenarius L. 
Being no agrostologist, he laid them aside to wait for a leisure moment 
and the assistance of an expert. This combination was not secured 
until last May, when Mr. Fernald at the Gray Herbarium confirmed 
the tentative identification. He stated that the southernmost sta- 
tion hitherto reported for the species is at Hampton Point, New 
Hampshire, making this apparently a considerable extension of range. 
