144 Rhodora [AuGcusT 
the common variety. The margins and backs of the petals are also 
sprinkled with short hairs like those of the rest of the plant, but 
paler, and not so uniformly glandular. Topsfield, Mass., 1842.” 
The other variation was described from Manhattan Island, New 
York, but has been collected by the late J. H. Sears in Essex County, 
Massachusetts, at a station where the plant is said to be abundant. 
This is : 
S. VIRGINIENSIS, forma pentadecandra (Sterns), n. comb. S. vir- 
giniensis, var. pentadecandra Sterns, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xiv. 124 
(1887) and xv. 166 (1888).— Petals replaced by stamens; the latter 
15.— Originally described from Manhattan Island, New York, where 
the plant was extremely scarce; found in profusion on garnet slate 
rock between White’s and Perkins’s Hills, Essex County, Massachu- 
setts, by J. H. Sears, May, 1898. 
SAXIFRAGA PENSYLVANICA L., forma fultior, n. f., bracteis inferi- 
oribus dilatatis ovalibus 7-10 cm. longis 4-5.7 cm. latis. 
Lower bracts dilated, oval, 7-12 cm. long, 4-5.7 em. wide.— NEw 
HAMPSHIRE: bog on Gap Mountain road, Jaffrey, May 30, 1899, 
E. F. Williams (ryper in Herb. New England Botanical Club); brook- 
side, Fitzwilliam road, Jaffrey, May 30, 1899, Rand & Robinson, 
no. 826. 
In typical S. pensylvanica the lower bracts are slender and many 
times shorter than the mature branches of the panicle, but in this 
extreme form from Jaffrey these dilated oval bracts are from one-half 
to two-thirds as long as the mature branches of the panicle and render 
the plant quite different in appearance from the typical almost naked- 
stemmed form. 
V. A NEW VITIS FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
For many years the writer has been familiar with a wild grape of the 
Penobscot Valley in Maine which it has been impossible satisfactorily 
to place with any of the defined species. An entirely similar vine 
from various other river valleys of northern and western New England 
has been collected and deposited in either the Gray Herbarium or the 
herbarium of the New England Botanical Club and from time to time 
these plants have been labeled by the great specialist upon American 
grapes, the late T. V. Munson, or by Prof. L. H. Bailey as Vitis 
Labrusca X vulpina. The vines in many ways are quite intermediate 
between the two species, V. Labrusca L. and V. vulpina L., having 
