288 Rhodora [Dbcembeb 



Long & Under, no. 22,306. Queens Co.: wet sphagnous spruce 

 bog near Louis Lake, Port Joli, August 17, Fernald, Long & hinder, 

 no. 22,296; springy sphagnous bog in spruce woods near mouth of 

 Broad River, August 16, Fernald & Bissell, no. 22,292. 



Several collections from eastern Massachusetts to New Jersey are 

 closely similar hut less fleshy or herbaceous and with the anthers 

 only tending to purplish, or at first reddish then changing to yellow. 

 These seem to be transitional to var. intermedia but not so well de- 

 fined as the Nova Scotian material. 



Var. sabulonensis (Fernald), n. comb. B. iodandra, var. stdmlon- 

 ensis Fernald in St. John, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xxxvi. 89 

 (1921). The plant of Sable Island is also on (lie mainland. We have 

 the following collections. Yarmouth Co.: wet sandy and rocky 

 shore of Lake Annis; wet lower peaty and cobbly beach and sphag- 

 nous swales bordering Salmon (Greenville) Lake; boggy swale by 

 Tusket River, Tusket Falls; cobbly margin of East Branch of Tusket, 

 Gavelton (transitional to typical B. paniculate); wet sandy shore of 

 Great Pubnico Lake. 



Var. iodandra (Robinson), n. comb. B. iodandra Robinson, Bot. 

 Gaz. xxvi. 47 (1S9S). — Known only from Newfoundland. 



•APOCTNUM medium Greene. Halifax Co.: slaty ledges and 

 cobbly upper beach of Shubenacadie Grand Lake. 



A. cannabinum L. Gravels along Shubenacadie R. and Five- 

 Mile R. (Hants). 



** AscLEPlAS ixcarxata L., var. neoscotica, n. var., caulibus 3-5 

 dm. altis, glabris vel sparsissime pilosis; foliis 7-11-jugis ovato- 

 oblongis obtusis vel subacutis glabris vel subtus ad nervos sparsis- 

 sime setulosis, longioribus 4.5-0.5 cm. longis. — Nova Scotia: wet, 

 lower, gravelly beach of Shubenacadie Grand Lake, July 19, 1920, 

 Fernald & Bissell, no. 22,318 (type in Gray Herb.); gravelly margin) 

 northwest side of Tusket (Yaughan) Lake, August 20, 1920, Fer- 

 nald, Bissell, Graves, Long & Under, no. 22,319. 



Differing from A. incarnate in its very short and broad leaves; 

 from var. pulchra (Ehrh.) Pers. in its few and short, glabrous or 

 glabrate leaves; var. pulchra having 11-21 pairs of longer (the longest 

 0.9-1.8 dm. long) leaves copiously hairy beneath. See pp. 135, 100. 



* Colloniia linearis Nutt. GUia linearis (Nutt.) Gray. Casual 

 by the railroad, Truro; probably adventive from the Baie des Cha- 

 leurs region where abundant and seemingly native. 



Lappula echinata Gilib. Waste land, railroad yards, etc., appar- 

 ently frequent, but nowhere abundant. 



* Symphytum asperum Lepechin; Macbride, Rhodora, xviii. 23 

 (1916). 8'. asperrimum Donn. Yarmouth Co.: waste land, Yar- 

 mouth. 



** Mertensia maritima (L.) S. F. Gray, forma albiflora, n. f., 

 corollis albidis. 



