-Ml Rhodora [Octobbr 



much coarser leaves, commonly 5-8 mm. wide with 10-14 nerves; 

 very many more Mowers on shorter pedicels, and smaller perianth 

 with narrowly oblong segments with the shorter heard only at base. 

 /,. americana is usually lower and the splendid representation gener- 

 ously loaned me hy the New York Botanical Garden, Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, United States National Museum 

 and Missouri Botanical Garden shows no tendency to the cespitose 

 or subcespitose habit of L. septentrionalis. L. am erica mi, furthermore, 

 has the much denser inflorescences heavily tomentose and with short 

 pedicels. See further discussion on pp. 160-163, 168. 



** Leucojum aestivum L. The Summer Snowflake of gardens is 

 thoroughly naturalized with Onrithogaium umbellalum and considered 

 a troublesome weed in an old field at Yarmouth. 



"Thoroughly and abundantly established . . .in a brook whence 

 it is rapidly spreading, Brunswick," Maine,- now established for 

 about 10 years. — See Fernald, Proc. Portl. Soc. Nat. Hist. ii. 133 

 (181)7). 



Ikis betosa Pall., var. canadensis Poster. Apparently not com- 

 mon west of Cape Breton. Guysborough Co.: Canso, Fowler. 

 Queens Co.: upper border of the beach, Central Port Mouton. 

 Ankapolis Co.: crests of basalt cliffs hy Bay of Fundy, Margaret- 

 ville. See p. 139. 



Iris pseudaconu L. Well naturalized about pools and ditches, 

 Yarmouth. See p. 9">. 



SlBYRINCHIUM GRAMINEl'M Curtis. Common in damp glassy, 

 peaty or gravelly open places, Yarmouth Co. to Halifax Co. See 

 pp. 95, 134, 147. 



** S. atlanticum Bieknell. Common in damp peaty, sandy or 

 gravelly soil, Yarmouth Co. to Queens Co. See pp. 95, 99. 



**S. ARENICOLA Bieknell. Yarmouth Co.: dry sandy hank, 

 Yarmouth. Annapolis Co.: damp Polyfrichnvi -covered sandy 

 plains, Middleton. See pp. 96, 13S. 



Habenaria viridis (L.) B. Br., var. BRACTEATA (Muhl.) Gray. 

 //. bracteata (Muhl.) R. Br. Rich woods, Folleigh, Colchester Co. 

 See p. 136. 



**H. flava (L.) Spreng. Yarmouth Co.: peaty and oobbly 

 beach of Salmon (Creenville) Lake; wet peaty margin of Butler's 

 (Gavelton) L., Gavel ton; gravelly margin of Tusket (Vaughan) L. ; 

 sandy and cobbly beach of Fanning Lake, Carleton. Not known 

 nearer than Trenton, New Jersey (see pp. 147, 148, 160, 168). The 

 planst of eastern Nova Scotia (Boylston, C. A. Hamilton) is var. 

 VIRECEN8 (Muhl.) Fernald, p. 14S. 



H. HYPERBOREA (L.) II. Br. Not seen west of Annapolis and 

 Queens Cos. 



