134 Rhodora [JoLy 
(not petaloid) and lustrous, the basal leaves are somewhat oblanceolate 
and acutish, and the cauline, as in true A. petaloidea, extend regularly 
to the inflorescence. In the original Mt. Desert sheet of A. neglecta, 
var. subcorymbosa the basal leaves are oblanceolate and acutish as in 
A. petaloidea, var. scariosa, but the involucral bracts have petaloid 
tips as in true A. petaloidea. In the Mt. Desert plant, however, the 
leaves extend half or two-thirds up the flowering stem, above which 
point the stem 1s naked or nearly so until just below the inflorescence, 
giving the corymb a long-peduncled aspect. 
'This nearly naked summit of the flowering stem is of interest 
because in the only Newfoundland Antennaria yet known with elon- 
gate creeping stolons this character reappears; and the Newfoundland 
material, though with larger leaves and ordinarily longer pedicels, 
has the outline of the basal leaves and the texture of the involucre 
exactly as in the original of A. neglecta, var. subcorymbosa. Similarly, 
the only material of this group yet known from Nova Scotia, a fine 
suite of specimens collected by Mr. Harold St. John at Sunny Brae, 
Pictou County, is quite like the Mt. Desert and Newfoundland plants 
in its details; and, as indicated by the field-experience of Mr. St. 
John and the writer during June and July of the present year, the 
commonest Antennaria on the eastern half of Prince Edward Island 
is quite like the Mt. Desert and Nova Scotian plant and they all belong 
with the northern A. petaloidea rather than with the more southern 
A. neglecta. This pronounced variant with acutish leaves, tall flower- 
ing stems (3-4.5 dm. high) nearly or quite naked for a long distance 
(commonly 10-15 em.) below the inflorescence, long pedicels (the lowest 
commonly 2.5-17 em. long), and somewhat petaloid involucral bracts, 
is, then, the representative of A. petaloidea along the southeastern 
border of its range, from Mt. Desert Island to Prince Edward Island 
and Eastern Newfoundland. 
GRAY HERBARIUM. 
