144 Rhodora [JuLy 
(Fernald & Wiegand, No. 3182, st.; G., O.; forma quamvis incerta, 
porro observanda), western Newfoundland, New Brunswick (as far 
north as Woodstock in Carleton County), Maine (Aroostook and 
Somerset Counties), Vermont (Bloomfield in Essex County), and 
westward from Quebec (as far north as Lake St. John), Michigan 
(Isle Royale, Houghton County), Ontario (Savanne, Thunder Bay 
County), and the Lake Winnipeg region.” 
Isle Royale, mentioned above, is the only station recorded by 
Schneider for this species in the United States west of New England. 
It is an island in the northern part of Lake Superior, in longitude 
89° and latitude 48°, near the mainland at the Ontario-Minnesota 
boundary. The collection (a pruinose sterile twig, in Gray Herbarium) 
was made by Wm. S. Cooper (No. 6) on July 22, 1909. To this Michi- 
gan locality may now be added another, in the Upper Peninsula 
and about 200 miles southeast of Isle Royale. The new locality 
is the swampy valley of the Tahquamenon River in Luce County. 
A specimen collected by Chas. K. Dodge, identified by the writer, 
and now at the University of Michigan, is labeled *abundant, low 
marshy banks of the Tahquamanan River, Luce Co., Sept. 9, 1915." 
À second specimen was collected there by Franklin P. Metcalf (No. 
2301), on the Tahquamenon River near Newberry, Luce Co., Sept. 
15, 1922. Mr. Metcalf, a botanist of the Bureau of Biological Survey, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, states that the area where his 
collections were made is a swampy stretch of land about 3 miles in 
diameter, through which the river meanders. It is located some 
8 miles on an airline or about 15 miles by water down the river from 
the town of Newberry and is surrounded by higher land bearing 
timber. The locality is known locally as “Dead Man's Farm,” 
because of a deserted farm on the nearby ridge. The chief vegetation 
of this swampy area consists of Carex spp., Scirpus cyperinus and 
Phalaris arundinacea, all abundant, Cornus stolonifera and Poly- 
gonum spp., both common, and at least three species of Salix, namely, 
lucida, which was abundant, and petiolaris and. pellita, both of which 
were common. His specimens will be placed in the National Herbar- 
ium. 
The two specimens, both sterile, collected by Dodge and Metcalf, 
are almost identical in appearance, with pruinose twigs and nar- 
rowly lanceolate leaves about 1.2-1.4 X 8-10 or 1.5 X 7 cm. in size 
and showing no sign of becoming glabrate beneath, though collected 
late in the season. 
Bureau or PLANT IxpvsTRY, Washington, D. C. 
