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has the spike branching sometimes with a few, more often with many 
short and densely crowded branches. 
**Var. sphaerostachya Mert. & Koch in Roehling, Deutschl. Fl. 
i. 803 (1823). y. pumila Koch, Syn. 597 (1837). B. capitellata Schultz, 
Fl. Pfalz, 380 (1846). ò. capitata Dene. in A. DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 1: 
715 (1852). P. microcephala Royle acc. to Barneoud, Mon. Plant. 
29 (1845), not Poir. P. sphaerostachya (Mert. & Koch) Kern. Schedae 
ad Fl. exsicc. Austro-Hung. iv. 71 (1886), not Hegetschw. Fl. 
Schweiz, 116 (1840).—Fields and roadsides, Newfoundland; Nova 
Scotia; southern New England; California to British Columbia. 
“Var. sphaerostachya, forma eriophora (Hoffmansegg & Link) Beck 
von Man. Fl. Nied.-Oesterr. ii. 1093 (1893). P. eriophora Hoffmansegg 
& Link, Fl. Port. i. 423 (1809). P. hungarica Waldst. & Kit. PI. 
Rar. Hung. iii. 225, t. 203 (1812). P. lanata Host. Fl. Austr. i. 210 
(1827). P. lanceolata 8. lanuginosa Koch, Syn. 597 (1837).—Nova 
Scotia; southern New England; Oregon. 
A closely related species, P. altissima L. Sp. ed. 2, i. 164 (1762); 
Kern, Ost. Bot. Zeit. xxv. 59 (1875); Beck von Man. Fl. Nied.-Oes- 
terr. ii. 1093 (1893), was collected by the late H. S. Clark somewhere 
on the “Connecticut coast” in 1899. The label gives no further in- 
formation but is sufficient indication that the,plant is to be watched 
for. P. altissima is a stouter plant than P. lanceolata, with heavy, 
creeping root, large leaves (up to 4 dm. long and 4 em. broad) 
glabrous upon both surfaces; stout scapes 0.6-1. m high; and flowers 
6-7 mm. broad (in P. lanceolata mostly under 5 mm.). 
*CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS L. SHELBURNE Co.: rocky shore of 
Deception Lake; among granite boulders by Lake John; at both 
stations scarce and local. Mr. R. H. Wetmore informs me that he 
has found Cephalanthus on Cameron Lake (head of Medway River), 
Queens Co. 
VIBURNUM ALNIFOLIUM Marsh. Rare in YanMovTH Co.: thickets 
and mixed woods near Lake George. Becoming frequent in Digby 
Co. Thence eastward through the northern and central region at 
least to Halifax Co. 
SOLIDAGO LATIFOLIA L. LUNENBURG Co.: shaded ledges by Lahave 
River above Bridgewater 
SOLIDAGO BICOLOR L. SHELBURNE Co.: from Shelburne eastward, 
"S. UNILIGULATA (DC.) Porter, var. NEGLECTA (T. & G.) Fernald, 
Ruopona, xxiii. 292 (1922). The plants in a spruce swamp at Mark- 
land (Cape Forchu), Yarmouth Co., are thoroughly characteristic 
of the variety which, in extreme development, we have not had from 
east of southern Maine. 
S. ELLIOTT X RUGOSA. One colony, apparently of this origin, on a 
gravelly bank south of Belleville, Yarmouth Co. 
