186 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
733 (1908); Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2, iii. 218 (1913).— Plant 
simple or sparingly branched, 3-12 em. high: stem pubescent: leaves 
4-7 pairs below the inflorescence, 2-9 mm. long, glabrous on both 
surfaces: inflorescence at first capitate, in maturity cylindric, 0.7-5 
cm. long, usually with only the 1-4 lowest pairs of bracts becoming a 
little remote: bracts similar to and only slightly larger than the leaves, 
with obtuse teeth: corolla 2.5-4 mm. long, deep brownish-purple, 
similar in size and shape to that of E. Oakesii.— Barren ledges, alpine 
region of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. New HAMPSHIRE: 
Cape Horn, Mt. Washington, August 6, 1896 and August 5, 1901, 
E. F. Williams; ledges near 5th Mile Post, Mt. Washington, August 6, 
1896, E. & C. E. Faxon, September 12, 1904, and August 19, 1907, 
A. S. Pease, nos. 4107 and 10,595; stony ground and crevices of rocks, 
* Alpine Garden,” Mt. Washington, August 5, 1901, E. F. Williams & 
B. L. Robinson, Pl. Exsicc. Gray, no. 60; Lion's Head, Mt. Washing- 
ton, August 28, 1909, A. S. Pease, no. 12,527. 
Very close to E. Oakesii but differing in the usually larger stature, 
with the more numerous cauline leaves only slightly smaller than the 
bracts; in the usually remote lower bracts; and in the deep chocolate- 
color of the corolla. In this species, as in several others, there is a 
glabrous and a pubescent trend: the former the typical plant of New 
Hampshire, the latter an alpine plant of Newfoundland. 
2a. E. WILLIAMS, var. vestita, n. var., foliis pubescentibus, pilis 
crispis; nodiis infra inflorescentiam 5-9; bracteae dentibus plerumque 
acutiusculis. 
Leaves crisp-pubescent, 5-9 pairs below the inflorescence: teeth of 
the bracts mostly acutish.— NEWFOUNDLAND: dry diorite peak, 
Lookout Mountain, Bonne Bay, August 26, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, 
no. 4009 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); dry exposed thin soil on summit- 
ledges altitude 335-520 m., Blomidon, July 31 and August 7, 1908, 
Eames & Godfrey, nos. 8068 and 8069. 
3. E. PURPUREA Reeks, List of Fl. Pl. and Ferns of Newfoundland, 
4 (1873).— Simple or usually branched from near the base, 0.3-4 dm. 
high: stems crisp-pubescent: leaves glabrous or nearly so on both 
surfaces, with glabrous or ciliate margins, ovate-oblong to nearly 
orbicular, the primary ones 5-15 (rarely -18) mm. long; teeth from 
rounded to barely acute: bracts similar: inflorescences becoming 
very elongate; the primary one 3-1 the full height of the plant, with 
10-20 somewhat remote pairs of bracts; the lower bracts about one- 
half as long as the internodes: corollas 2.5-4 mm. long, from deep to 
pale purple with darker lines; throat usually with a yellow spot; 
upper lip shallowly notched, with revolute or rarely erect entire or 
bidentulate lobes; lower lip not distinctly fan-shaped, with ascending 
truncate or bidentulate linear or oblong lobes.— Grassy or peaty 
banks and brackish shores, western Newfoundland and eastern Quebec 
