178 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
able are a pale brown but this is the color of immature seeds of the 
American. Itis, therefore, not wise to lay great emphasis upon the 
color. Nor do there seem to be any appreciable differences in the 
rootstocks, foliage and flowers of the two plants; and it is significant 
that, although having the sessile stigmas of the European, the Japan- 
ese plant has follicles as large as in the American. It seems, then, 
that the North American plant should be called 
SCHEUCHZERIA PALUSTRIS L., var. americana, n. var., a forma 
europaea differt floribus 3-4 mm. longis; folliculis 7-10 mm. longis 
rostratis, rostro 0.5-1 mm. longo curvato; seminibus anguste ellip- 
soideis 4-5 mm. longis atris.—Newfoundland to Manitoba and 
Washington, south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa and 
California. The following, selected from many specimens, are 
characteristic. NEWFOUNDLAND: wet open bog, Glenwood, July 12 
and 13, 1911, Fernald, Wiegand & Darlington, no. 4707; shallow pools 
in bogs, Grand Falls, July 26, 1911, Fernald, Wiegand, Bartram & 
Darlington, no. 4510. QUEBEC: sphagnum bog, Natashquan, Sep- 
tember 4, 1915, St. John, no. 90,107; quagmires at 1035 m. (3400 ft.) 
Table-top Mountain, August 10, 1906, Fernald & Collins, no. 332; 
Napierville, July 10, 1863, G. G. Kennedy. Nova Scotia: bog-holes 
in barrens, mountains west of Ingonish, August 13, 1914, Nichols, 
no. 842; quagmire-margin of Gold Lake, Birchtown Brook, September 
8, 1921, Fernald € Long, no. 23,164 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); sphagnous 
wet peaty margin of Harper Lake, September 8, 1921, Fernald & 
Long, no. 23,165. Marne: Bangor bog, Orono, July 27, 1895, 
Fernald, no. 352; open sphagnum bog, Baker bog, Township vi, 
Range 17, Somerset Co., July 17, 1917, St. John & Nichols, no. 2110; 
bog, South Chesterville, August, 1904, L. O. Eaton; boggy intervale, 
St. Croix Junction, Calais, August 3, 1909, Fernald, no. 1600; Great 
Heath, Great Cranberry Island, August 29, 1892, Redfield & Rand; 
bog, edge of Great Pond, Belgrade, August 31, 1898, Fernald, no. 
2742; quaking bog by Lily Pond, Limington, August 29, 1916, 
Fernald, Long € Norton, no. 12,419. New HAMPSHIRE: bog, Shel- 
burne, August 16, 1884, Deane; abundant about Buck Pond, Stewarts- 
town, July 19, 1917, Fernald & Pease, no. 16,606; bog north of Cherry 
Pond, Jefferson, September 12, 1908, Pease, no. 11,433; Large Pond, 
Fall Mt., Walpole, July 12, 1901, Blanchard. Vermont: “In udis 
sphagnosis ad Colchester," Oakes; Snake Mt., August 25, 1880, 
Faxon; Mud Pond, alt. 2300 ft., Wallingford, July 7, 1898, Eggleston 
& Kent; bog, Pownal, July 29, 1898, Churchill. MASSACHUSETTS: 
Tewksbury, June 23, 1853, Wm. Boott; swamp, Natick, June 30, 1885, 
Deane; peat bog, Billings Pond, Sharon, June 27, 1909, Knowlton; 
peat bog, Sheffield, August 27, 1902, Hoffmann. CONNECTICUT: 
sphagnum bog by Lake Congamond, Suffield, June 22, 1915, Blewitt, 
no. 3539; sphagnum bog about Bingham Pond, Salisbury, July 30, 
