116 Rhodora [Jury 
Edge of pool, Billerica, Aug. 12, 1911, Weatherby, “petals white, the 
spur cream-color’”’; Eat-fire Spring, Nantucket, Aug., 1896, L. L. 
Dame, “flowers cream-color.” Minnesota: Tower, Aug., 1889, 
E. J. Hill, “nearly white, spotted with red.” Britton (Cat. Pl. N. J. 
74 (1889)) reports “a form with white flowers” at Toms River, N. J., 
on the authority of Dr. Knieskern. 
I have not seen a pure albino form nor have I found an altogether 
certain, first-hand report of one. In the palest flowers seen by me, 
at least the saccate sepal is cream-color, the color being strongest in 
the spur. I am therefore leaving f. albiflora for the present, as defined 
by Rand & Redfield, to cover both cream-colored and reported white 
flowers. The pure albino, if it occurs, will probably prove to be a 
distinct strain, making, with f. citrina and the cream-colored element 
of f. albiflora, a series— pure yellow, pale yellow, white — such as is 
known to exist in Gratiola aurea.! Mr. Rand writes me as follows in 
regard to the type of f. albiflora: 
“T fear that the ‘forma albiflora’ mentioned in the Mt. Desert 
Flora was in reality the form with cream-colored flowers. I know just 
` where the plant grew that I had in mind, and it may grow there yet. 
Plants with flowers of a purer white have been observed, but I... did 
not regard them as distinct.” 
Forma albiflora, then, was founded on a plant with cream-colored 
flowers and the name, though inappropriate, will have to be retained 
for the cream-colored form, should the two strains prove distinct. 
Forma Peasei A. H. Moore, f. nov.? Perianthiis roseis, rubro- 
maculatis. Perianth pink, spotted with deeper red. Marine: Hart- 
ford, 1886, Parlin. New Hampsuire: Damp roadside, Whitefield, 
Sept. 2, 1913, A. S. Pease, no. 14,506 (TYPE, in Herb. N. E. Bot. Club), 
“flowers pink”; Jefferson, Aug. 26, 1901, Edith Cook; Aug. 26, 1907, 
A. S. Pease, no. 10,741; Jackson, Aug. 22, 1909, Harold St. John, 
“roseate form.” New York: Downsville, Delaware Co., 1891, 
Miss C. G. Orton. A specimen from Oxford, Connecticut, Sept. 10, 
1903, E. B. Harger, no. 4344, described by the collector as having 
flowers “pale flesh-color to salmon-pink,” may represent another 
strain. 
In all of the above forms the spots are present, as in the typical 
1See Ruopora, ix. 123 (1907). Cream-colored or pale yellow variants of several yellow 
flowers are known to occur. Impatiens pallida, Potentilla pumila, Hypericum punctatum, and 
Rudbeckia hirta are cases in point. In I. pallida an albino form has been reported by Clute. 
2 Named for Professor A. S. Pease, as a small recognition of his untiring work in the study of 
the flora of Coés County, New Hampshire. 
