Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 17. January, 1915. No. 193. 
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GRAY HERBARIUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.— 
New Seres, No. XLIII. 
I. SOME NEW OR UNRECORDED COMPOSITAE CHIEFLY 
OF NORTHEASTERN AMERICA. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
Durie the past decade the large collections accumulated at the 
Gray Herbarium of plants from various districts of Northeastern 
America have contained many species unlike those ordinarily recog- 
nized in the region. Among these are numerous members of difficult 
genera of the Compositae which have from year to year been held over 
for further field-observation or close study. In attempting to label 
this accumulated material in some of the genera it has been necessary 
to characterize some of the plants as new, while some species hereto- 
fore considered as restricted to Northwestern America have been 
found to have abundant representation in the Northeast. The 
novelties in such genera as have been recently worked over are dis- 
cussed below. 
SotmpaGo HISPIDA Muhl., as it occurs in northern New England, is 
a tolerably uniform plant, characterized by its densely pilose stem, its 
leaves pubescent upon both surfaces and its virgate or paniculate- 
inflorescence with the heads densely clustered in elongate or short 
racemes. In Newfoundland and eastern Canada the plant abounds 
but it there varies greatly and is represented not only by the typical 
S. hispida but by four well marked varieties. One of these, var. 
lanata (Hook.) Fernald, found in Newfoundland, the Gaspé Peninsula 
