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(Wormskj.) Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 349 (1842). Als. hirta, a 
foliosa Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl. ed. 6, 149 (1854). 4r. verna, var. 
hirta (Wormskj.) Watson in King, Rep. 41 (1871). Als. propinqua 
(Richardson) Lange, Fl. l'an. xvii. 7, 8 (1877) as to Greenland plant. 
Als. verna, 8. propinqua (Richardson) Grónl. Isl. Fl. 33 (1881) as to 
name. Als. rubella, var. hirta (Wormskj.) Gürke, Pl. Eur. ii. 258 
(1899). Ar. verna equicaulis A. Nelson, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xxvi. 
352 (1899). Ar. verna, var. propinqua (Richardson) Fernald, Ruo- 
DORA, viii. 32 (1906). Alsinopsis propinqua (Richardson) Rydberg, 
Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xxxiii. 140 (1906). Alsinopsis hirta (Wormskj.) 
Cockerell, Am. Nat. xl. 864 (1906). 
A. VERNA, var. PUBESCENS, forma epilis (Fernald), n. comb. Alsine 
rubella Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. 128, t. 6 (1812).  Alsinella rubella (Wah- 
lenb.) Swartz, Summa Veg. Scand. 17 (1814). Ar. quadrivalvis R. 
Br. in Parry, lst Voy. App. 271 (1824). Ar. hirta a. glabrata Cham. 
& Schlecht. Linnaea, i. 56 (1826). Ar. rubella (Wahlenb.) Sm. 
Engl. Bot. Suppl. i. t. 2638 (1831).  Alsine verna, 9. glacialis Fenzl in 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 350 (1842).  Alsine verna, B. rubella (Wahlenb.) 
Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl. ed. 6, 149 (1854). Ar. verna, var. rubella 
(Wahlenb.) Wats. Bibl. Ind. 99 (1878). Ar. verna, var. propinqua, 
forma epilis Fernald, Ruopora, vii. 32 (1906). Alsinopsis quadri- 
valvis (R. Br.) Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xxxiii. 140 (1906). 
NARDUS STRICTA IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. 
ANNIE LORENZ. 
Ar Waterville, New Hampshire, the past season, the writer's atten- 
tion was caught by a peculiar and unfamiliar tufted grass. It grew 
abundantly, perhaps a hundred tufts, on a dry, sterile bank below 
the Crawford cottage at the edge of the golf-links, and bore abundant 
spikes, which, however, were considerably past maturity. 
With the aid of Britton & Brown's Flora it was found to be Nardus 
stricta L., a European grass, the only American localities cited in the 
work mentioned being Newfoundland and Amherst, Mass. (Tucker- 
man). : 
The species is indigenous in Greenland and eastern Newfoundland. 
In the Gray Herbarium are specimens from two stations in the United 
States. One is Tuckerman’s original collection from Amherst, 
Massachusetts, and its label bears the following note: “has appeared 
in poor grassland (undisturbed 19 years) adjoining my garden. Am- 
herst, 1871. E. T." The other is labelled: “ Andover, New Hamp- 
shire, August 29, 1901. A. A. Briggs." 
