148 Rhodora [July 



New Jersey as Chironia chloroidcs a plant with " floribus 7-13-partitis" 

 and corolla-lobes "oblong," but with Chlora dodccandra L. cited as a 

 synonym, the name presumably changed on account of the lack of 

 precision in the Linnean specific name. 



This species, Sabatia dodccandra, occurs in coastal marshes from 

 Long Island southward, and judging by herbarium labels and local 

 records it is commonly a plant of saline or brackish marshes. Thus 

 Torrey, who gives a beautiful plate of the plant, ascribes it to "Brack- 

 ish bog meadows on the Island of New-York, and on Long Island. 

 August ;" l Taylor, writing of the region from Connecticut to southern 

 New Jersey, says: "In tidal marshes throughout the range; so far 

 not reported inland, nor up the tidal rivers, except in Cape May" 2 ; 

 and Stone, writing of southern New Jersey, says: "Frequent on the 

 brackish meadows from the Hackensack marshes south. In the Cape 

 May peninsula it occurs also in fresh marshes over a mile from the 



coast Fl. — Late July to late August." 3 This plant, usually of 



brackish marshes, is apparently a perennial (but herbarium specimens 

 very inadequately display the base) and it ranges from 0.8-(5 dm. in 

 height; its leaves are nearly uniform up to the inflorescence, oblong 

 to oblong-lanceolate, blunt oracutish; the calyx-lobes are herbaceous 

 or foliaceous, 3-5-nerved, 6-17 mm. long, 1-3 mm. broad, and the 

 calyx-tube is somewhat nerved or corrugated; the corolla-lobes are 

 narrowly oblong-spatulate to oblanceolate, acutish or obtuse, 1.5-2.5 

 cm. long, 4-9 mm. wide (in dried specimens), with the margins not 

 overlapping; the yellow spot at the base of each segment is elongate, 

 slightly 3-lobed at summit or subentire, and 0.7-2.3 mm. broad. 



Whether or not Sabatia dodccandra actually occurs in New England 

 is at present an open question. Three stations are recorded in Con- 

 necticut: "Rare. Marshes near the coast: Old Lyme (F. H. Dart), 

 Saybrook (Berzelius Catalogue), Guilford (Miss K. Dudley)." 4 

 Of the Lyme station Dr. C. B. Graves writes, that it was found by Dr. 

 Dart "a good many years ago." Dr. Graves has no material and the 

 colony is now extinct. The Saybrook station was reported in the 

 Berzelius Catalogue, but Mr. A. F. Hill has kindly sent me the entire 

 representation of the species from the Eaton Herbarium and the 



i Torr. Fl. N. Y. ii. 114. t. 84 (1843). 



'Taylor, Fl. Vic. N. Y. 504 (1915). 



•Stone. PI. So. N. J. 640 (1912). 



' Graves et al.. Cat. Fl. PI. and Ferns Ct. 319 (1910). 



