1918] Pease,— Nuttall and Pickering in White Mountains 39 
leaves subcoriaceous, crowded, 9-12 pairs below the inflorescence 
(members of the upper pairs sometimes disjoined), oblong-lanceolate, 
1.5-3.5 cm. long, 0.5-1 cm. broad, obtuse, repand-denticulate, sessile 
or subsessile: flowers 4-6; the young erect, 4.5-5.5 mm. long: calyx 
3.5-5 mm. long, glabrate: petals milk-white: capsules short-pedi- 
celled; the young erect, glandular-hirtellous; the mature glabrate, 
3.5-4 cm. long; pedicels 2-4 mm. long: seeds fusiform, produced at 
apex into a pellucid appendage, 1.3 mm. long, 0.4 mm. broad; the 
testa papillose-rugulose.— LABRADOR: Rama, July 15-August 20, 
1894, A. Stecker, no. 90, distributed as E. Hornemanni; Rama, July- 
August, 1899, A. Stecker, no. 360 (TYPE in Gray Herb.), distributed 
as E. Hornemanni. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
NUTTALL AND PICKERING IN THE WHITE Mountatns.— In a recent 
article on early botanical explorations in the White Mountains! 
I stated that the date of Mr. Nuttall’s visit to the White Mountains 
was not known, but suggested that it may have fallen between the 
years 1822 and 1824. This trip was of significance because upon it, 
according to Tuckerman,’ “the practised eye of Mr. Nuttall had 
detected several species, of such rarity, that few have seen them 
since.” But after the article in Appalachia was published, Dr. Fred- 
erick Tuckerman examined the old hotel-register or ‘ visitors’ album’ of 
Ethan Crawford,’ and he has kindly communicated to me this entry 
under date of 12 August, 1824: “Thos. Nuttall 
Jas. Whitfield 
Cambridge, 
Mass.” 
The collections of Charles Pickering on Mt. Washington in 1825 are 
amply attested,‘ but evidence was hitherto lacking for any subsequent 
visit by him. The same register, however, records the names of 
Oakes and Pickering on 18 July and of Pickering again on 22 July, 
without mention of the year. But since the preceding page of the 
register is dated 1827 that is probably the date of this trip.— ARTHUR 
STANLEY PEAseE, Urbana, Illinois. 
1 Appalachia 14 (1917), 167. 
2 In T. S. King’s White Hills, 1st ed. (1860), 46. 
3 Now in the possession of his only surviving child, Mr. W. H. Crawford, of Jefferson, N. H. 
4 Appalachia 14 (1917), 166. 
