1919] Eames,—Specimen of Daucus Carota 147 
shores, sand dunes, etc., along the coast, Greenland to Narragan- 
sett Bay, Rhode Island. 
In typical Coelopleurum lucidum the involucels are spatulate- 
lanceolate or linear and entire, rarely exceeding the pedicels. On the 
coast of New England, however, occurs a form in which all or nearly 
all the involucels are converted into large 3-lobed or 3-parted serrate 
leaves which conspicuously exceed the umbellules. This may be 
called 
C. LUCIDUM, forma frondosum, n. f., involucelli bracteolis foliaceis 
trilobatis vel tripartitis serratis— Marne: Cape Porpoise, Kenne- 
bunkport, July 2, 1901, Kate Furbish (rype in Gray Herb.); Wells, 
1898, Kate Furbish. MASSACHUSETTS: Beverly Bay, August, 1847, 
Chas. Pickering; Swampscott, August 5, 1836, C. W . Swan. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
ANOTHER EXCEPTIONAL SPECIMEN OF Daucus Carota.— The 
recent notes in Ruopora, xxi. 70 (1919), by Dr. Robinson concerning 
a dark-flowered Daucus Carota L. remind the writer of a completely 
colored specimen collected at Bridgeport, Conn., 11 Sept., 1918, by 
Franklin A. Russell and now deposited in Gray Herbarium. 
In this plant the petals throughout all the umbels were wholly 
very dark purple, similar to those so commonly observed in the central 
floret. The plant bore several similar compound umbels and was 
normal in all respects except color of petals. 
The “pale-roseate” color-phase seems to be near the other extreme. 
Between the two are certain intermediates in which the marginal 
portion of some or even all petals is dark purple, sometimes rather 
sharply defined or usually gradually diffused toward a central roseate 
tinge or to entire extinction. Such specimens sometimes display 
entire petals of the darker color, very rarely, it is true to the extent 
of any considerable part of one or many umbels, 
These observations cover a period of years and have been limited 
by the general infrequence of such abnormalities although not looked 
upon as very remarkable. 
In relation to the dark coloring of the flowers it may be worthy 
of mention that the foliage of this species, as in numerous others of 
the family, is quite commonly shaded or suffused in the same way 
but, so far as the writer has observed, never in a definite relation to 
