208 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
Tuckerman’s Ravine by L. M. Underwood and correctly determined 
by him. Prof. L. W. Riddle has kindly looked through the Crypto- 
gamic Herbarium of Harvard University, the Herbarium of the New 
England Botanical Club and the personal collection of the late Pro- 
fessor Farlow and reports no specimens from the White Mts., the only 
eastern ones being from Newfoundland (Waghorne) and the one from 
Mt. Katahdin, Maine collected by J. F. Collins July 8, 1900 and 
recorded in Raoponra, iii, 180, 182 (1901). The specimen from Mt. 
Marcy, New York was collected by Mrs. E. G. Britton, Aug. 29, 1892.— 
A. LeRoy AnpreEws, Ithaca, New York. 
RANUNCULUS BORAEANUS IN EASTERN NEW YonKk.— Very early in 
the spring of 1919. I noted, in a meadow numerous plants which 
had finely dissected leaves. As these leaves were unlike any I could 
recall, careful watch was kept of them. By the last of April the 
blossom-stalk proved the plant to be a Ranunculus. The first week 
in May the first blossom opened. "The plant resembled Ranunculus 
acris L., but flowered earlier, was less stout, had finely dissected 
leaves, little pubescence, and that appressed, and a very short beak 
to the achene. 
A specimen was sent to Harvard and pronounced to be Ranunculus 
Boraeanus Jordan, a species of continental Europe, the appearance 
of which has not before been noted in America. “It is considered by 
some authors as doubtfully, distinct from Ranunculus acris L.” but 
Professor Fernald, after giving the points of difference, notes: “ Your 
point that with you it flowers so very much earlier than Ranunculus 
acris L. also seems to indicate that it is a fairly marked species." — 
ORRA PARKER PHELPS, Gansevoort, New York. 
Vol. 21, no. 260, including pages 173 to 192, was issued 24 November, 1919. 
