140 Rhodora [AuGcusT 
Sepals bright red.— QuEBEc: gravelly banks of the Grand River, 
Gaspé County, July, 1902, George H. Richards (rype in Gray Herb.). 
Forma inconspicua, n. f., sepalis crassis coreaceis viridescentibus 
vel ochroleucis oblongo-acuminatis 0.7-1.3 cm. longis 2.5-5 mm. 
latis. 
Sepals thick and leathery, greenish or greenish-white, oblong- 
acuminate, 0.7-1.3 cm. long, 2.5-5 mm. broad.— Range of the species, 
less common. As TYPE may be cited the sheet in the Gray Herbarium 
collected on cold walls of Percé Mountain, Percé, Gaspé County, 
Quebec, July 25, 1905, by Williams, Collins & Fernald. 
ANEMONE VIRGINIANA L. As stated in the discussion of A. riparia, 
that species and A. virginiana are often confused through the fact that 
in both species either leathery greenish sepals or thin petaloid white 
sepals occur. In typical A. virginiana the sepals are.leathery and 
greenish, the form with thin petaloid white sepals being compara- 
tively rare. These two forms may be separated as follows: 
A. VIRGINIANA L. Sp. Pl. i. 540 (1753), typical form.— Sepals 
leathery, greenish or greenish-yellow, very pubescent on the back, 
narrowly oblong, acuminate, 0.7-1.3 cm. long.— Dry slopes, dry or 
rocky open woods, or occasionally in meadows, common in the south- 
eastern United States extending northward to Lakes Erie and Ontario 
and the lower Ottawa River, Ontario, Hochelaga County and Lake 
Memphremagog, Quebec, southern Coös County, New Hampshire, 
and Oxford and southern Penobscot Counties, Maine.— Flowers late 
June to late August. 
Forma leucosepala, n. f., sepalis tenuibus albis petaloideis, majori- 
bus vix pubescentibus obovatis apice rotundatis 1.2-1.7 cm. longis. 
Sepals thinnish and petaloid, white; the larger ones scarcely pubes- 
cent on the back, obovate, rounded above, 1.2-1.7 cm. long.— Less 
common than the typical form. As TYPE specimen may be designated 
the plant collected on the north bank of the Swannanoa River near 
Biltmore, North Carolina, June 28 and August 9, 1897, and dis- 
tributed from the Biltmore Herbarium as no. 54b (in Gray Herb.). 
ANEMONE MULTIFIDA Poir. Anemone multifida as it occurs in North 
America seems to be conspecific but not strictly identical in all details 
with the Patagonian and Chilean type of the species, although some 
Rocky Mountain specimens seem scarcely separable from the South 
American. The plant in eastern America is extremely variable and 
falls rather clearly into two pronounced varieties, each of which pre- 
sents noteworthy forms. These eastern American variants of the 
species may be separated as follows: 
