Vol. VI., No. 60.] BULLETIN OF THE TORREY Botanicat C.us. (New York, Dec, 1879, 
§ 365. North-Eastern Notes. 1879.—As the result of another 
season’s careful herborizing in this well-worked field, I am able to 
report a few finds that may be of some interest. 
Arenaria verna, L., var. hirta, Watson, still lingers in Smuggler’s 
Notch, Vt.: as only a few specimens scattered over a small area were 
found, its hold on the soil of this region, like that of Gentiana Ama- 
rella, L., var. acuta, Hook. f., Carex atrata, L., Luzula spicata, Desv., 
Woodsia hyperborea, R. Br., and some other denizens of this boreal 
garden, must be feeble, and its existence in the flora of Vermont, 
like theirs, precarious. 
Pyrola secunda, L., var., pumila, Paine. This distinct form of. 
P. secunda, L., is very abundant in the cold cedar swamps and 
sphagnous bogs of Western Vermont. It is associated with P. 
rotundifolia, L., var. uliginosa, Gray, Cypripedium arietinum, R. Br., 
and Orchis rotundifolia, Pursh. 
Nuphar luteum, Smith, is a common plant in the sluggish streams 
which flow into Lake Champlain on the Vermont side. In size the 
‘species is hardly less than N. advena, Ait., hence I have in previous 
years passed it by, mistaking it for that species. Mr. Jesup first 
detected it in these waters in 1873, and sent to Mr. Watson speci- 
mens which he collected near the mouth of the Mississquoi River. _ 
It is really very distinct from N. advena, in the rhizome, smaller, 
white, and velvety; in the number of the sepals, which, however, is 
not always constant, since my friend Prof. Brainerd has not very 
rarely counted six ; and in the fewer-rayed stigma, crimson like that 
of N. pumilum, Smith. With respect to its relation to the last- 
named species, the impression which I have derived from a study of 
the two species and a comparison of living plants of both with the 
characters given in Hooker’s British Flora, is that the difference 
between the two is mainly one of size. With regard to the plants of 
the two species growing intermixed in the waters of Lake Cham- 
plain, this difference in size is so great, as far as I have observed, 
that there is no trouble in separating the two; but in lakes of Lower 
Canada and Northern Maine I have seen N. pumilum varying much 
in size, and growing so large as to lead me to examine it closely, to 
see if it might not be N. luteum. 
Littorella lacustris, L., wet sandy shore of Lake Champlain, 
Alburgh, Vt., in flower, Sept. 2. Here is a new genus of the Order 
Plantagineae for the manuals of the United States. It is not in 
Gray’s Flora of North America; but since the publication of that, 
Prof. Macoun has credited it to America in his catalogue of the Do- 
minion of Canada. 
Eleocharis olivacea, Torr., Bristol Pond, Vt., growing on the sur- 
face of the black mire about the edge of the pond. 
On the extensive hog bordering this same pond Mr, Brainerd 
and I, last June, came upon a patch of Carex livida, Willd. 
‘Rhododendron maximum, L., borders of Long Pond among the 
Green Mts., some twenty-five miles east of Montpelier, attaining in 
this, which must be one of its extreme stations westward, a height 
of only two or three feet. 
_Equisetum palustre, L., enters New England from the north 
