1917] White,— Salvia sylvestris in County Peel, Ontario 39 
capitulis castaneis breviter ovoideis vel crasse cylindricis 4-8 mm. 
longis 4-6 mm. crassis, 2 vel 3 subsessilibus, reliquiis pedunculatis, 
pedunculis ad 2(—2.5) em. longis; perianthiis 3—4 mm. longis capsulam 
valde superantibus. 
Caespitose: culms 1-4 dm. high: heads castaneous, short-ovoid or 
thick-cylindric, 4-8 mm. long, 4-6 mm. thick, two or three of them 
subsessile, the others on ascending peduncles up to 2(—2.5) em. long: 
perianth 3-4 mm. long, distinctly exceeding the capsule.— Prince 
‘Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. PRINCE EDWARD 
Istanp: dry border of woods, Charlottetown, June 30, 1914, Fernald 
& St. John in Plantae Exsiccatae Grayanae; recent clearing, west 
side of St. Peter’s Bay, June 29, 1914, Fernald & St. John, no. 
10,990 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); sandy thicket, Morell, June 29, 1914, 
Fernald & St. John, no. 10,991. New Brunswick: Bay Verte, 
June 5, 1896, E. M. Goodwin. Nova Scotta: fresh or brackish swale, 
Grand Narrows, Cape Breton County, July 20, 1914, Fernald & St. 
John, no. 10,994. 
Resembling var. multiflora (Ehrh.) Celak, but that widely distrib- 
uted plant has the capsules exceeding the shorter perianth (2.5-3.3 
mm. long). In its long perianth and short capsule var. acadiensis 
is more closely related to the southern var. echinata (Small) Fernald 
& Wiegand! which occurs from Texas to Georgia and northward to 
eastern Massachusetts. The southern var. echinata, however, has 
much looser inflorescences, rarely with more than one of the heads 
sessile, the others on more spreading (often widely divergent) longer 
rays (up to 5.5 em. long).— M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium. 
SALVIA SYLVESTRIS L. IN Country PEEL, OnTariIo.— During the 
past summer Mr. A. Laidlaw, who is something of a botanist, noticed 
an unusual plant whilst cutting his alfalfa for hay. There was only 
one individual of it and it was growing on sandy loam in a high dry field. 
He gathered and pressed the specimen and when he showed it to me 
some time afterwards I was completely puzzled over it. I tried all the 
accessible floras but failed to place it. The specimen had four stems 
from a single root and I sent one of them to the Gray Herbarium, where 
it was referred to Mr. Harold St. John for identification. He informs 
me that it is Salvia sylvestris L., a native of eastern Europe and west- 
ern Asia. Previous to the present finding, Mr. St. John tells me that 
1 Ruopora. xy. 42 (1913). 
