196 Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
TWO NEWFOUNDLAND ANTENNARIAS. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
DurinG the middle of July last, while the number of Ruopora ! 
containing descriptions of several Antennarias from Newfoundland 
was in press, Mr. Harold St. John and the writer had an opportunity 
to spend a couple of days about Port à Port Bay in western Newfound- 
land. Practically all of our time was devoted to the limestone table- 
land, Table Mountain, which rises to the slight elevation of 300 m. 
above the Bay. Here the two abundant representatives of Anten- 
naria were A. eucosma Fernald & Wiegand, which was widespread in 
the turf and humus, and A. alpina, var. cana Fernald & Wiegand, 
which abounded on the dry limestone shingle. On one dome of the 
tableland the plant recently proposed as A. canadensis, var. spathulata 
Fernald * was in prime development wherever the dry shingle was 
covered with turf; and on another dome (the northernmost visited) 
the characteristic Antennaria of the shingly barrens was a little whitish 
plant strongly suggesting A. alpina, var. cana, but with much smaller 
heads and milk-white, instead of blackish, involucres. The latter 
plant is quite unlike any species described from eastern America and 
clearly distinct from its nearest relative, A. subviscosa Fernald, of 
Rimouski County, Quebec. 
Heretofore the only herbarium material of A. canadensis, var. 
spathulata has been the three collections cited under the original 
description, two of them August specimens with shriveled inflores- 
cences, the other a single flowering individual. On Table Mountain 
the plant was in beautiful flower and an abundance of material was 
secured which agrees perfectly with the earlier collections and indicates 
that the plant has strong specific characters to separate it from A. 
canadensis Greene, a species unknown from Newfoundland. 
The two species here noted may be called 
ANTENNARIA spathulata (Fernald), n. comb. A. canadensis, var. 
spathulata Fernald, Ruopora, xvi. 132 (1914). 
Differing constantly from A. canadensis Greene not only in the 
cuneate-spatulate round-tipped basal leaves originally emphasized 
but in several other characters. In A. canadensis the assurgent 
1 Ruopora, xvi. no. 187, July, 1914. 
? Fernald, Ruopora, 1. c. 132 (1914), 
