150 Rhodora [Jult 



the autumn, especially on plants which have been broken oil' by the 

 omnivorous Hower-picker. 



In short, the plant of fresh pond-shores of southeastern Massachu- 

 setts and southern Rhode Island is quite distinct from the often halo- 

 phytic S. dodecandra. Its nearest affinity seems to he rather with the 

 elegant S. deeandra (Walt.) Harper which occurs about pine-barren 

 ponds of Georgia, Florida and Alabama and which lias a similar calyx 

 and the round-tipped corolla-lobes of the Massachusetts plant; but 

 in S. deeandra the corolla-lobes are more spatulately narrowed to base 

 and with a comparatively slender yellow spot, the calyx-lobes are 

 much longer, and the plant is nonstoloniferous (apparently biennial), 

 with mostly round-tipped basal leaves. The chief diagnostic char- 

 acters of these three species are brought out in Plate 121, kindly 

 prepared by Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews. 



So far as the writer can determine, the plant of Massachusetts and 

 Rhode Island has not heretofore been distinguished and it is a great 

 pleasure to be able to associate with this splendid species the name of 

 the scholarly New England botanist and sympathetic friend of all 

 botanists, Dr. George Golding Kennedy. The New England plant 

 may, therefore, be called 



Sabatia Kennedyana, n. sp. Perennis valde stolonifera, stoloni- 

 bus flagelliformibus apice rosulatis; caule Horifero solitario 2.5-8 dm. 

 alto; foliis basilariis anguste oblaneeolatis acuminatis 3-8 cm. longis 

 4-15 nun. latis; foliis caulinis 5-11-jugis (rarissime ternatis) firinis 

 laneeolato-acuminatis basi sessilibus vel subamplexieaulibus apice 

 mucronatis; floribus 1-16 longe pedunculatis apud examplara nun- 

 quam mutilata 3-7 cm. latis; tubo calycis eampanulato-hemisphaerieo 

 enervato, lobis calycis 7-12 lineari-subulatis nee foliaceis obscure 

 1-3-nervatis 5-15 mm. longis 0.5-1.5 mm. latis margine hyalinis; 

 lobis corollae roseis 7-12 cuneato-obovatis apice rotundatis vel emar- 

 ginatis 1.5-3 cm. longis (5-15 mm. latis, macula basilari hi tea brunneo- 

 marginata late oblonga vel euneato-obovata subtruncata 3-lobata 

 5-9 mm. longa 2.5-5 mm. lata; antheris 7-12; stylo stigmatibusque 

 subaequantibus; capsula breviter ellipsoidea (>— 10 mm. longa apice 

 rotundata vel emarginata, valvulis hyalino-marginatis — Sandy or 

 peaty margins of fresh ponds or in sphagnous bogs, Massachusetts and 

 Rhode Island. Massachusetts: Great Pond, South Weymouth, 

 September 11, 1903, Lillian Woodbury: border of pond, Scituate, 

 September 20, 1914, F, F. Forbes; beach of Snake Pond, Kingston, 

 October 25, 1914, Fernald; Plymouth, Oakes et al.; sandy shore of 

 Clear Pond, Plymouth, August 30, 1913, Fernald, Hunnewell &' Long, 

 no. 10,219; damp sandy beach of Hoot Pond, Plymouth, September 6, 

 1913, Fernald, Hiinnewell &• Long, no. 10,220; sandy shore of Cooper's 

 Pond, Carver, August 30, 1913, Fernald, Hunnewell ((• Long, no. 



