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In very rare instances short subglobose corollas occur on the bog 

 plant with pale anthers, and in one case typical A. glavcophylla has 

 been seen with a tendency to post mortem splitting of the corolla; 

 but, (littering from the true A. glaucophylla in its almost unique corolla 

 and anther-characters, the plant of the Newfoundland limestones 

 seems to be worthy at least varietal designation. 



In its very reduced foliage and in its fruit and its spreading whitish 

 calyx-lobes the limestone plant is quite inseparable from dwarfed 

 extremes of true A. glaucophylla. In fact, the original material of 

 Aiton's A. Polifolia 1 august ifolia, which was collected by Sir Joseph 

 Banks at Croque in northeastern Newfoundland and which has been 

 compared for the writer by Mr. Blake, is quite inseparable from the 

 Table Mountain plant in its foliage; but most unfortunately the 

 Aiton type is quite destitute of flowers. Pursh, taking up Aiton's 7 

 ungu.stifolia as a augustifolia, said: "I strongly suspect the variety a 

 to be a distinct species which might be called A. rosinarinifolia" ; 

 but owing to the lack of flowers on the Aiton material it is now quite 

 impossible to say whether it is a dwarf form of true A. glaucophylla 

 or the plant of Table Mountain. Under these circumstances the 

 Table Mountain plant may be called 



Andromeda glaucophylla Link., var. iodandra, a. var., depressa, 

 raniis 0.3-1.5 dm. altis; foliis linearibus 1-2.4 cm. longis valde revo- 

 Intis; eorollis oblato-globosis 3-4 mm. longis in statu siecato cam- 

 panulatis valde lobatis; antheris purpureis vel atropurpureis 0.6- 

 O.S mm. longis, filamentis 1.4 mm. longis basi latis. 



Depressed; the branches 0.3-1.5 dm. high: leaves linear, 1-2.4 

 em. long, strongly revolute: corolla oblate-globose, 3-4 mm. long, in 

 the dried condition campanulate and deeply lobed: anthers purple or 

 purplish-black, 0.6 0.8 mm. long; filaments 1.1 mm. long, broad at 

 base.— NEWFOUNDLAND: in humus or turf on the limestone table- 

 land, altitude 200-300 m., Table Mountain, Port a Port Bay, -Inly 10 

 and 17, 1914, Fernatd A- St. John, no. 10,857 (type in Gray Herb.). 

 Fruiting specimens from dry rocky limestone barrens, near sea-level, 

 [ngornachoix Bay, August' 2 & 4, 1910 (Fernald <(• Wire/and, nos. 

 3340, 3,841) seem to belong here. 

 Gray Herbarium. 



