98 Rhodora [JUNE 
The following additions to local state floras, not already mentioned 
in the preceding Notes, may be recorded :— 
For Maine: Riccia arvensis, Belfast (A. Lorenz). 
For Vermont: Jungermannia cordifolia, Hartland (A. Lorenz); 
Scapania dentata, Manchester (W. R. Taylor); S. glaucocephala, Pawlet 
(W. R. Taylor). 
For Rhode Island: Cephaloziella Hampeana and Lophozia Mildeana, 
Westerly (A. Lorenz). 
The census of New England Hepaticae now stands as follows: 
total number of species recorded, 196; number recorded from Maine, 
151; from New Hampshire, 154, from Vermont, 137; from Massachu- 
setts, 121; from Rhode Island, 81; from Connecticut, 146; from all 
six states, 66. 
YALE UNIVERSITY. 
THE NORTHERN VARIETY OF GEUM VIRGINIANUM. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
In 1774 Johan Andreas Murray separated from Geum wrginianum 
L. a Canadian plant which he described as G. laciniatum,! distinguish- 
ing it by its more laciniate basal leaves, more incised and smaller 
stipules and strictly glabrous fruits, the more southern G. virginianum 
having the fruits pilose (setose). The foliage- and stipule-characters 
emphasized by Murray seem to be of no special importance, but it 
is significant that the great bulk of northern plants of G. virginianum 
have quite glabrous carpels, while all the southern specimens have 
them bristly. This is clearly shown in the occurrence in New England 
and adjacent areas; all the specimens from northern, eastern and 
central Maine and northern New Hampshire have glabrous fruits, 
although this smooth-fruited plant extends very locally southward 
into the range of the bristly-fruited plant in eastern and extreme 
western Massachusetts. All material examined from the Mohawk 
Valley and from western New York and Ontario likewise has glabrous 
fruits. 
On the other hand, all the more southern material seen, from 
Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Connecticut and nearly all from 
Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and southwestern Maine, 
! J. A. Murr. Comm. Novi. Gott. v. 30, t. 2 (1774). 
