1914] Woodward,— Forms of Arenaria lateriflora 179 
Depressed shrub with subterranean repent trunk and branches; 
the assurgent branchlets 3-10 cm. high, pale, glabrous, leafy at the tip: 
leaves thick, elliptic-rotund, 0.7-2 em. long, 0.5-1.4 em. wide, green 
and glabrous above, with impressed nerves, glaucous-whitened beneath 
and reticulate-veiny and glabrous, or the young silky-tomentose and 
glabrate; the margin entire or crenate, somewhat revolute; petioles 
glabrous 1-4 mm. long: terminal buds olive, glabrous, narrowly 
ellipsoid, obtuse, 4-5 mm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. thick: aments terminal, 
short-peduncled; the fruiting densely flowered, ellipsoid, 5-11 mm. long; 
the peduncle 1-2.5 mm. long, glabrous: scales olive or somewhat red- 
dish-yellow, rounded-obovate, glabrous, 1 mm. long: capsules subses- 
sile, conic-ovoid, obtuse, 3.5-4.5 mm. long, glabrous, purplish; style 
very short, the divergent stigmas 2-cleft; the prongs of the nectary 
2, filiform, 1 mm. long.— NEWFOUNDLAND: mossy knolls on the 
limestone tableland, altitude 200-300 m., Table Mountain, Port à 
Port Bay, July 17, 1914, Fernald & St. John, no. 10,825 (TYPE in 
Gray Herb.). 
In habit and foliage closely simulating S. reticularis L. and the most 
dwarfed alpine extreme of S. vestita Pursh; but differing from both 
in the glabrous scales and capsules; also from S. reticularis in its short 
peduncles and thick fruiting aments, and from S. vestita, which is the 
most abundant willow of Table Mountain, in its glabrous or quickly 
glabrate foliage and the smaller and more slender glabrous greenish 
terminal buds, the terminal buds of S. vestita being obovoid, pubescent 
and reddish and measuring 6-11 mm. long by 3-5 mm. thick. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
FORMS OF ARENARIA LATERIFLORA. 
R. W. WOODWARD. 
In a former article (RHODORA, 15: 209) the writer called attention to 
two forms of Arenaria lateriflora occurring in Southern New England, 
a large-flowered form with long filaments and well developed anther- 
cells, and a second form having shorter petals and imperfectly devel- 
oped anther-cells borne on very short filaments. Further observations 
the past summer indicate that the anther-cells of the second form are 
destitute of pollen. The two forms may be characterized as follows. 
Petals averaging 7.5 mm. in length: filaments about twice the length 
