180 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
A. sPINOSUS L.. Waste places; Lowell, Lynn, Malden, Boston, 
South Boston. 
A. viripis L. Goulding's Mill, Malden (F. S. Collins, Aug. 30, 
1887); dump, South Boston (E. & C. E. Faxon, 1878). 
GOMPHRENA. 
G. aLoBosA L. Dump, Boston (C. W. Swan, Sept. 14, 1886; 
specimen in herb. Yale University). 
PHYTOLACCACEAE. 
PHYTOLACCA. 
P. americana L. (L. Sp. ed. 1. P. decandra L. Sp. ed. 2.) Dry 
pastures, open woods and roadsides; common throughout. 
C. H. KNowrrow | Committee on 
WALTER DEANE Local. Flora. 
AN ALBINO VIOLA ROSTRATA.— In a large collection of plants from 
northern New York, Mrs. Orra Parker Phelps includes a beautiful 
white-flowered form of the ordinarily lilac- and violet-flowered Viola 
rostrata. The albino which formed a colony of more than one hundred 
plants is quite as striking in its departure from the normal form of the 
species as V. cucullata, forma albiflora Britton, and V. pedata, forma 
alba Britton. It may be called 
VIOLA ROSTRATA Pursh, forma Phelpsiae, n. f., corollis albidis.— 
New York: beech woods, Pierrepont, May 20, 1914, Orra Parker 
Phelps, no. 699 (TYPE in Gray Herb.).— M. L. FERNALD. 
Vol. 17, no. 200, including pages 145 to 160, was issued 6 August, 1915. 
