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New Hampsuire: Asquam Lake, 1914, A. L. Gundersen; Walpole, 
1899, M. L. Fernald, no. 214. Vermont: Pownal, 1898, J. R. 
Churchill, also W. W. Eggleston, no. 258; 1899, Eggleston, no. 1. 
MassacHUsETTS: Revere, 1879 & 1882, H. A. Young; Middlesex 
Fells, 1894, W. H. Manning; Blue Hills, 1894, C. G. French; Readville, 
C. E. Faxon; Stockbridge, 1902, R. Hoffmann. Connecticut: 
Waterbury, 1910, A. E. Blewitt, no. 1135; Hammond's Woods, Water- 
ford, 1902, C. B. Graves, no. 302; New Haven, D. C. Eaton. New 
York: Oneida Lake, old Torrey & Gray specimen; various places in 
the Cayuga Lake Basin, 1919, Eames, Randolph & Wiegand, nos. 
12983, 12984, 12985, 12986, also Eames & Wiegand, nos. 12982, 
12989, and A. J. Eames, no. 12987; Junius, 1915, Eames & Mac- 
Daniels, no. 5090. Vireinta: Stony Man Mountain near Luray, 
1901, E. S. & Mrs. Steele, no. 9; Bedford County, 1871 & 1872, 4. 
H. Curtiss. West ViRGINIA: Parsons, 1904, A. H. Moore, no. 1994; 
East Fork of the Greenbrier River, Pocohontas County, 1904, A. 
H. Moore, no. 2380, and J. M. Greenman, no. 235; Gap Mountain, 
1903, E. S. & Mrs. Steele, no. 186. Kentucky: on Big Black 
Mountain, Harlan County, 1893, T. H. Kearney, Jr., no. 166. 
NomrH CAROLINA: Swain County, 1891, Beardslee & Kofoid. 
GEoRGIA: north Georgia, 1875, C. Wright; Whitfield County, 
1900, P. Wilson, no. 70; west of Cuthbert, 1903, R. M. Harper, 
no. 1877. ONTARIO: Queenston, 1911, J. White, no. 2. MICHIGAN: 
near Port Huron, 1892, C. K. Dodge; Flint, 1909, E. E. Sherff. 
Inp1ana: Wabash River east of Bluffton, 1908, C. C. Deam, no. 
5194. Wisconsin: Brown County, 1901, J. H. Schuette (albino 
form); Kankauna, 1890, Schuette. ILLīNoIrs: Bloomington, 1886, 
B. L. Robinson; near Princeville, 1900, V. H. Chase, no. 716; 
Peoria, 1904, F. E. MacDonald; Havana, 1903, H. A. Gleason; 
St. Clair County, 1886, H. Eggert; Grand Tower, 1902, H. A. Gleason; 
Belknap, 1902, Gleason. Iowa: Ames, 1897, Ball & Pammel; Dakota 
City, 1896, Pammel, no. 33. NEBRASKA: Nemaha, 1910, J. M. 
Bates, no. 5211. OkranHowa: Grand River, Cherokee Nation, 1895, 
J. W. Blankinship; near Ottawa, 1913, G. W. Stevens, no. 2371. 
E. falcatum is much more variable than E. purpureum. In the 
southern mountains it is often very slender (E. amoenum Pursh) 
but ordinarily it is large and frequently very tall with an expanded 
inflorescence as noted in the description. The nodes occasionally 
lose the purple coloration. The leaves vary widely in shape, and 
the pubescence is extremely variable in density, but it is always of 
the same loose type. The heads are usually pale, but may vary to 
white or to deeper purple. The transitions in all cases are so gradual, 
and the combinations so complex, that no subdivision of the species 
has seemed practical. The variation in florets was as follows: 4 
