124 Rhodora . (Jone 
Leaves mostly spreading or reflexed, those of the fruiting branches 5.5-11 mm. 
long. 
I lanceolate, linear-oblong or oblanceolate, thinnish, distinctly 
NNNM d vee hy 5 6.643% 00d s-^" Vue t E 460 L. annotinum. 
Leaves linear- or lance-attenuate, firm and thickish, entire or obsoletely 
cV LZ AE ics. «PUN LEE C I var. acrifolium. 
Leaves strongly ascending or appressed, those of the fruiting branches 2.5- 
6 mm. long. 
Leaves linear- or lance-attenuate, thick, dorsally convex, entire. 
var. pungens. 
Leaves lanceolate or lance-oblong, flat, obscurely serrate. . var. alpestre. 
L. ANNOTINUM L. Sp. Pl. 1566 (1753).— Eurasia and North Amer- 
ica. Woods and clearings, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to Con- 
necticut, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, Idaho and 
Washington. 
Var. acrifolium, n. var., foliis lineari- vel lanceolato-attenuatis 
firmis crassis integris vel obsolete serratis patentibus vel reflexis.— 
Newfoundland to Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ontario; also Siberia. 
NEWFOUNDLAND: dry rocky clearings, Grand Falls, July 10, 1911, 
Fernald, Wiegand, Bartram & Darlington, no. 4366. QuEBEC: dry 
woods, Grindstone, Grindstone Island, Magdalen Islands, July 22, 
1912, Fernald, Bartram, Long & St. John, no. 6696. PRINCE EDWARD 
IstAND: dry open woods, Rocky Point, July 6, 1912, Fernald & St. 
John, no. 6695. Nova Scotia: damp woods, North Sydney, July 21- 
25, 1901, Howe & Lang, no. 692. Maine: woods, Fall Brook, north 
of St. Francis, July 21, 1908, Churchill; damp woods, Fort Kent, 
July 12, 1903, Pease, no. 2588; dry woods, Van Buren, July 24, 1893, 
Fernald, no. 213a; dry woods, Orono, October 13, 1890, Fernald; 
dry woods, Dover, September 4, 1894, Fernald, July 22, 1895, Fernald 
(TYPE in herb. New England Botanical Club). New HAMPSHIRE: 
White Mountains, 1842, A. Gray, July 28, 1853, Wm. Boott; ledge, 
Randolph, July 24, 1893, E. F. Williams; Shelburne, September, 
1893, Farlow; summit of Starr King, September 15, 1897, W. Deane; 
woods, Colebrook, July 15, 1907, Pease, no. 10,443; foot of Moat Mt., 
North Conway, August 26, 1878, W. C. Lane; rich woods, Jaffrey, 
July 9, 1897, Robinson, no. 189; cold wet woods, Contoocook, October 
11, 1899, F. G. Floyd. Vermont: Jay Peak, July 7, 1908, E. J. 
Winslow. MassaAcHUsETIS: Chebacco woods, Essex, September 
19, 1896, Raynal Dodge; low woods, Cold Brook Springs, Oakham 
May 12, 1912, Fernald & Wiegand; woods, Ashfield, August 2, 1909, 
E. F. Williams, woods, Buckland, August 23, 1906, F. F. Forbes. 
CONNECTICUT: pine woods, Winchester, June 25, 1901, C. H. Bissell. 
PENNSYLVANIA: Moraine, Pocono Plateau, July 25, 1904, J. W. 
Harshberger. Micutcan: Hamlin Lake, Ludington, July 28, 1910, 
R. W. Chaney, no. 21; woods near Lake Michigan, August 17, 1901, 
M. A. Barber. Ontarto: Onaman River, Thunder Bay District, 
1912, H. E. Pulling, Srperta: River Pjosscha, Samojed, Schrenk. 
Var. PUNGENS (La Pylaie) Desv. Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris, vi. 182 
