92 Rhodora [May 
and size. He finds that about 65% of the plants have black-blue fruit, 
while in the remainder, the color passes to bluish green and to a clear 
orange-yellow. Although Prof. Macfarlane does not consider any of 
these types sufficiently well-marked to receive names, it seems desir- 
able as a matter of convenience to recognize as a form so conspicuous a 
variation as the one in hand. 
There seems to be no reason why we should not date our Prunus 
maritima from. Marshall's description in the Arbustrum Americanum, 
published in 1785, rather than from that of Wangenheim, as has usu- 
ally been done. Marshall’s description is brief; but there can be 
no doubt that he was dealing with the plant which Wangenheim pub- 
lished two years later under the same name. Prunus maritima Wang. 
therefore becomes a synonym of P. maritima Marshall, and the yellow- 
fruited form may be called: 
» Prunus MARITIMA Marshall, forma flava, forma nova, fructu flavo. 
The type specimen is deposited in the Gray Herbarium. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
THREE LUPINES NATURALIZED IN EASTERN CANADA 
AND NEWFOUNDLAND. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
In 1911, while botanizing at Clarenville, at the head of Trinity Bay 
in Newfoundland, the writer was surprised to see a tall Lupine com- 
pletely occupying the available ground in a cemetery. So thoroughly 
established was the plant that it obscured many of the graves and 
their stones, and only the strong fence had kept from the area the 
browsing animals which had devoured the tops of all the plants out- 
side the enclosure. A single specimen only was secured by reaching 
through the fence, for the watchful populace was of a class and dis- 
position to make one think twice before vaulting the cemetery fence 
to dig up the flowers growing within. 
Later, upon returning to Cambridge, the writer received for de- 
termination from Dr. J. M. Macoun a specimen of a Lupine seemingly 
identical with the one at Clarenville but collected on a roadside at 
