1914] Hill, — A Variety of the Dwarf Raspberry 151 
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Utah. A plant from open woods, Gap 
Mt., Troy, New Hampshire, 13 June, 1898 (Rand & Robinson, no. 459 
in Gray Herb.) may be designated as the type specimen. 
4. Var.floribunda, n. nom. Spergulastrum lanceolatum Michx. Fl. 
Bor.-Am. i. 275 (1803).  Micropetalon. lanceolatum Pers. Syn. i. 509 
(1805). Stellaria lanceolata Torr. Fl. i. 453 (1824), not Poir. Encyc. 
vii. 416 (1806). S. borealis, var. alpestris Gray, Man. ed. 5, 93 (1867) 
as to Robbins plant but not S. alpestris B. Fries, Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant. 
i. 10 (1832) nor S. alpestris Fries (emend.) |. c. iii. 194 (1842). Alsine 
borealis alpestris Britton, Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. v. 149 (1894), in part, 
not S. alpestris Fries. S. borealis, var. corollina Robinson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxix. 286 (1894), in part, not Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 382 
(1842).— Wet or shaded places, Newfoundland to British Columbia, 
south to Nova Scotia, New England, New York, Michigan, Wiscon- 
sin, Minnesota and the mountains of Utah. 
5. Var. Bongardiana, n. nom. S. longifolia Bongard, Vég. Sitch. 
126 (1832), not Muhl. in Willd. Enum. 479 (1809). S. borealis of 
American authors, as to plant of the extreme West.— Wet or shaded 
places, Alaska to California; also eastern QuEBEC: Anticosti, Pursh; 
Bie, F. F. Forbes. 
6. Var. sitchana (Steud.), n. comb. S. brachypetala Bong. Vég. 
Sitch. 126 (1832), not Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. ii. 161 (1830). 5. 
sitchana Steud. Nom. ed. 2, ii. 637 (1841). S. borealis, var. corollina 
Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 378 (1872); Robinson, l. c. 286 (1894) 
as to western plant, not Fenzl l. e. (1842). Alsine borealis alpestris 
Britton in Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. ii. 24 (1897), in part, not S. 
alpestris Fries, ll. ce. A. brachypetala Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. i. 82 
(1897) in part (as to Bongard synonym).— Wet, shady places, Alaska 
to Oregon and Idaho. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
A PUBESCENT VARIETY or THE Dwanr RasPBERRY.— While re- 
cently working over a collection of plants from the Penobscot Bay 
region of Maine, a specimen of the Dwarf Raspberry Rubus pubes- 
cens Raf. (R. triflorus Richardson) was noted which differed from the 
usual form in the pubescence. The common plant has the leaves 
glabrous or slightly pilose on the veins beneath, while the plant from 
Penobscot Bay has the mature leaves densely pilose beneath. Fur- 
ther examination of material in the Gray Herbarium and the Herba- 
rium of the New England Botanical Club showed this to be a well 
marked tendency occurring in several places, and it should therefore 
be recognized as a variety, and may be called 
