1918] | Morse,— Amaranthus Powellii and Digitalis lanata 203 
exposed ledges and shingle on Table Mt., Port à Port Bay, Newfound- 
land (Fernald & St. John, no. 10,837), although clearly a dwarfed 
alpine extreme of the Anticosti and Keewatin and Altai plant, 
is so like Huter’s specimens of Braya alpina from the Carinthian Alps 
(Fl. Exsice. Austr.-Hung. no. 580) as to be separated only by its more 
slender pods. Braya humilis, Pilosella (or Arabidopsis) novae-angliae 
and P. Richardsonii are, likewise, distinctly perennial plants, in this 
agreeing with the other species of Braya, not with the annual Arabi- 
dopsis Thaliana. 
Besides Braya humilis, which occurs in northwestern America in 
Alaska and British Columbia, there is another western species, in the 
mountains of Alberta and British Columbia. This is 
Braya Richardsonii (Rydberg), n. comb. Pilosella Richardsonii 
Rydberg, Torreya, vii. 159 (1907). 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
AMARANTHUS POWELLII AND DIGITALIS LANATA IN NEW ENGLAND.— 
Three plants, recognized as something different, sprang up in the 
garden of Mr. John Robinson at Salem, Massachusetts, this season. 
They were allowed to grow and on July 12 were collected and taken 
to the Gray Herbarium, and determined as Amaranthus Powellii 
Wats. from the far west. My attention is called to the fact that this 
species has been found as a weed in cultivated ground at Tewksbury 
by Messrs. E. F. Williams & W. P. Rich, in 1900, and on a roadside 
at Weston by Mr. Williams some years earlier: see RHODORA, xvii. 
179 (1915). 
The collection of Essex County plants is indebted to Mrs. Paul A. 
Dodge of Rowley for fine specimens of a conspicuous and attractive 
adventive from the Danube River region — Digitalis lanata Ehrt. 
This was discovered growing rankly on a heap of rakings at the foot 
of Ox Pasture Hill in Rowley. Further search and inquiry secured 
the information that this species had probably been introduced in 
soil with plants imported from Holland, and that it was not uncommon 
in a limited station on the hill— ALBERT P. Morse, Peabody Museum 
of Salem, Massachusetts. . i 
