1909] The Ottawa Naturalist 19 



In a marsh near the confluence of Exploits River and Badger 

 Brook, Newfoundland, 13 August, 1894, Robinson and Schrenk, 

 their n. 26 as in Herb. Canad. Geol. Sur\^ 



Thalictrum alpinum, var. nesioticum. Nearly as large 

 as the last, stouter; leaflets about 17, the terminals cuneate 

 some of the laterals not so, but broader than long, all lightly 

 lobed, dark and shining above save as there marked by verv 

 light-colored anastomosing veinlets, beneath only moderately 

 glaucous; pedicels firm, curved slightly throughout, not at apex; 

 carpels 1-3, narrowly obovate, tipped with a straight beak, and 

 conspicuously as well as rather slenderly stipitate. 



Said to be common in gravelly places along rivers on the 

 Island of Anticosti, Jupiter River, 20 August, 1883, John 

 Macoun; the specimens at that season in quite mature fruit. 

 Types in Herb, Canad. Geol. Surv. 



Thalictrum alpinum, var. pudicum. Size of the last; 

 leaflets normally 2 1 , all manifestly cuneate below and longer than 

 broad, dark and shining above, glaucous beneath even to the 

 veins; pedicels firm but altogether drooping, being curved down- 

 ward from almost the base and above the base almost straight ; 

 carpels 2 or 3, abruptly tapering at base rather than definitely 

 stipitate. 



I do not here take into consideration Greenland specimens 

 of these plants, except to say that as far as they are known to me, 

 they can form no part of any rational Thalictnint alpinum, lack- 

 ing, as they do, the essential character of a dark-green shining 

 foliage. Those very high-northern congeners have leaves that 

 are of the same dull glaucous green on both faces. This type is 

 also plentiful in Europe outside of Great Britain perhaps 

 present locally even there occurring in Lapland, Norway, and 

 even on alpine summits in middle and southern Europe. Again 

 and again have these wholly glaucous plants been held separate 

 and segregate from the original British type by most competent 

 sy.stematists. 



CRATAEGUS DOUGLASII, LINDL. 



A note in the November Ottawa Naturalist recorded the 

 finding of Crataegus Douglasii near Lake Abitibi. Mr. W. J. 

 Wilson found this species along the Abitibi River and at the 

 mouth of Black River in 1901 and again about 100 miles below 

 Black River in 1902. His record was printed in The Naturalist 

 for February 1903. Mr. Wilson in 1906 again found C. Doug- 

 lasii east of Lake Abitibi so that it is probably a species of wide 

 distribution in that region. It has also been collected in Michi- 

 gan and on islands in both Lake Huron and Lake Superior. 



J. M. M. 



