1917] Fernald,—New or critical Plants from eastern N. America 155 
Massachusetts, and southern Kennebec and southern Penobscot 
Counties, Maine; also St. Clair County, Illinois to northeastern 
Illinois, northern Indiana, and southwestern Ontario. 
Var. LAEVIGATUS.— Central Illinois and the upland of Tennessee 
and southwestern Virginia, north to central Wisconsin, western and 
northern New York, northern Vermont, Grafton County, New 
Hampshire, and Franklin County, Maine. 
ASTER CoRDIFOLIUS L., var. racemiflorus, n. var., a forma typica 
recedit foliis cordatis argute dentatis sinu clauso; capitulis valde 
racemosis, racemis lateralibus divergentibus vel flexuoso-recurvatis. 
Differing from the typical form of the species in having the cordate 
leaves coarsely dentate, and the sinus closed: heads conspicuously 
racemose; the lateral racemes divergent or flexuous-recurved.— PRINCE 
Epwarp IsLAND: roadside-thickets and borders of dry woods, Mal- 
peque, August 29, 1912, Fernald, Long & St. John, no. 8135 (TYPE 
in Gray Herb.). 
In typical Aster cordifolius the cordate leaves are serrate and with 
an open sinus, and the inflorescence is definitely paniculate, the ascend- 
ing or spreading branches paniculate-forking. 
SENECIO FERNALDII Greenman, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. iii. 90 (1916). 
This little species of the limestone barrens of Table Mountain, Port 
à Port Bay, Newfoundland, was based by Greenman upon a single 
specimen. Further material collected by Dr. St. John and the writer 
in July, 1914 (no. 10,873) shows the species to range from 5-13 cm. 
in height; the blades of the coriaceous mostly purple-tinged basal 
leaves to range from narrowly cuneate-obovate to reniform and 0.3-2 
em. long, 0.5-1.5 em. broad, and to have rounded or acute dentations 
or even to be lyrate-pinnatifid. The corollas, undescribed by Green- 
man, have a deep-orange to almost scarlet limb; the tube bears 5 
dark stripes up to the sinuses and the lobes are bordered by a similar 
dark line, and in the expanded flowers the anthers are conspicuously 
exserted. 
Like most of the other species of Senecio with discoid heads S. 
Fernaldii has a form with well developed rays, in this case the ligules 
being broadly oblong, 6 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. broad, with 3 rounded 
terminal teeth and 4 dark longitudinal lines. This form may be called 
Senecio FERNALDII Greenman, forma lingulatus, n. f., lingulis 
oblongis 6 mm. longis 3-3.5 mm. latis longitudinaliter 4-lineatis apice 
3-dentatis dentibus rotundatis— NEWFOUNDLAND: very scarce, 
with the typical discoid form of the species, dry exposed ledges and 
shingle on the limestone tableland, altitude 200-300 m., Table Moun- 
tain, Port à Port Bay, July 16 & 17, 1914, Fernald & St. John, no. 
10,873a (TYPE in Gray Herb.). 
