1914] Fernald,— Variations of Stellaria borealis 149 
The other name which has been used for the two American plants 
with cymose-paniculate inflorescences is S. borealis, var. corollina 
Fenzl| This supposition, that Fenzl's var. corollina was a plant with 
paniculate inflorescences, doubtless came about through his citation 
under it of S. alpestris Fries, which, as already shown, was two differ- 
ent species, and of S. brachypetala Bong; but there is nothing in Fenzl's 
treatment to indicate that he was establishing var. corollina for a 
plant with a paniculate inflorescence. On the contrary, he divided 
S. borealis into two varieties based merely on the presence or absence 
of petals: “a. apetala: floribus omnibus v. plurimis apetalis," etc., 
and “$. corollina: floribus omnibus 5 petalis v. paucissimis 3 petalis," 
ete? Under each of his thus constituted varieties Fenzl distinguished 
some forms: of “B corollina" " Lusus 1. Calyces 1-13 lin. longi. 
, 
Caules plerumque abbreviati debiles" and " Lusus 2. Calyces ple- 
rumque 2 lin. longi. Caules saepe erecti longifolii elongati"; and in 
his citation of S. brachypetala Bong. as belonging to var. corollina he 
further indicates that it is “ Lus. 2." Subsequent European authors 
have interpreted var. corollina merely as the form of 5. borealis with 
petals and there is no clear reason why we should do otherwise. To 
be sure, Fenzl cited as belonging to his var. corollina, lusus 2, S. brachy- 
petala Bongard with its “ Cyma dichotoma”; è but as the second form 
of his variety S. brachypetala can hardly be accepted as thoroughly 
typical of it. This plant, S. brachypetala Bong., is, as indicated by 
Fenzl, one of the large-flowered Northwestern varieties, and Bon- 
gard's descriptive phrase “Cyma dichotoma,” may be taken as a fair 
indication that he had the large-flowered plant with loose cymes. 
There was, however, an earlier and quite different S. brachypetala of 
Bunge * from the Altai and on this account Bongard's S. brachypetala 
zas renamed by Steudel S. sifchana, which seems to be the first 
name for our large-flowered cymose plant free from incumbrances. 
The other large-flowered plant, the variety with essentially uniform 
long leaves and scattered axillary flowers, was described from Mertens's 
Sitka material by Bongard as S. longifolia Muhl. But Bongard's 
description and a sheet of the Mertens collection in the Gray Her- 
barium show that it is the large-flowered plant which in the extreme 
1 Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 382 (1842). 
? Fenzl, 1. c. 
? Bong. Vég. Sitch., 126 (1832). 
4 Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. ii. 161 (1830). 
5 Steud. Nom. ed. 2, ii, 637 (1841). 
