274 Rluxlora [November 



be found in the group. I have spent much time in studying the 

 Seeds from all ripe fruit at hand in the hope that these would furnish 

 sound characters, but, although the seeds show great diversity in 

 size (2.8-4.5 mm. long) and outline, these variations seem to he in 

 no way associable with other characters or with definite ranges. 

 Besides the typical form of the species, which is common in Nova 

 Scotia, the following recognizable varieties occur. 



** I. VERTKTLLATA, Vai\ PADIFOLIA (Willd.) T. & G. QUEENS 



Co.: wet boggy thickets near Louis Lake, Port Joli. See p. 159. 



1. veuticillata, var. TENUIFOLIA (Toit.) Wats. YARMOUTH Co.: 

 moist, rocky wooded slope, Tusket. Halifax Co.: cool dam]) 

 woods, Windsor Junction, Hove & Lang, no. 415. 



** I. veuticillata (L.) Gray, var. fastigiata (Bicknell), n. comb. 

 L fastigiata Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. xxxix. 426 (1912).— Yar- 

 mouth Co. : swampy spruce woods and thickets, southwest shore 

 of Trefry's Lake, Arcadia; gravelly thicket by Fanning Lake, Carle- 

 ton; thicket bordering Great Pubnico Lake (less characteristic form). 

 See p. 109. 



I. glabra (L.) Gray. Frequent or common, often dominant in 

 spruce woods, bogs and on wet or dry barrens, Digby and Yarmouth 

 Cos. to Halifax Co. See pp. 91, 97, 9S, 105, 110, 142. 148, 158, 159, 

 161. 



* ACER RUBRUM L., var. TRIDENS Wood. Occasional from Yar- 

 mouth Co. to Queens Co. See pp. 102, 151. 



IIhamnus alnifolia L'Her. Cumhekland Co. : openings in 

 swampy woods, Springhill Junction. 



Hypericum hokeale (Britton) Bicknell. Common throughout 

 the province. 



**H. dissimulatum Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. xl. (ilO (1913). 

 Yarmouth Co.: boggy swale, Tusket Falls; wet moss, Argyle Head. 

 Halifax Co.: gravelly beach of Third Lake, Windsor Junction. 

 See p. 149. 



** Klatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & Meyer; Fernald, Rhodora, 

 xix. 13 (1917). Shallow water at sandy, muddy or gravelly margins 

 of lakes, common in Digby, Yarmouth and Shelburne Cos. In the 

 tidal mud of the Tusket, fruiting when only 2 3 mm. high. 



Although here recorded for the first time in Canada, E. minima 

 was collected by Fernald, Long & *S7. John (no. 77(>5) in 1912 in Lake 

 Verde, Prince Edward Island. 



Lechea intfumedia Leggett. Common in dry open soil in most 

 silieious regions. See p. 138. 



Viola cucullata Ait., forma prionosepala (Greene) Brainerd, 

 RHODORA, xv. 112 (1913). Commoner than the glabrous form in 

 Yarmouth Co. 



* V. cucullata, var. microtitis Brainerd, I. c. Digby Co.: 



