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no species of Lacinaria has this odor, so I give it the varietal name 

 trilisioides. 



Lacinaria cylindracea (Mx.) O. K. Var. solitaria (MacM.) N. Comb. 



Liatris cylindracea Var. solitaria MacM; Gray, Man. Ed. 7, 785, 1908. 



This variety is described in the Manual as with one, slightly enlarged, 

 terminal head. At llochester I collected a plant (No. 3818) on August 

 9, 1914, that was of the usual height for the species but was more 

 slender, the leaves shorter, proportionately narrower, with but one 

 terminal head which was reduced in size, the lower involucral bracts 

 being foliac^ous and nearly as long as the ol)long head only slightly 

 narrowed at base. I have no doubt but that it belongs here. 



Solidago patula, Muhl. Var. macra N. Var. 



Plant about 2 feet high, very slender and delicate, leaves very thin 

 and infioresence, a short wand like thyrse, 2 inches long. The in- 

 floresence is that of S. vliginosa and allied species, i. e., a thyrse with 

 puberulent peduncles and involucres but the leaves and stem are those 

 of *S. patula in everything liut stoutness; the lower cauline leaves have 

 ovate or oval, finely serrate blades 5-7 inches long by 3-4 wide on 

 broadly winged petioles 2-5 inches long; the upper are ellipital, oblong, 

 or oval, 3 inches or less long and | to h as wide, acute, tapering into a 

 short but distinct winged petiole; all very rough on the upper surface, 

 otherwise glal)rous; heads 2-2| lines high and nearly as broad; in- 

 volucral bracts oblong, narrowed at the apex but obtuse, ciliate; achenes 

 pubescent. Rich woods at Rochester, Farw^ell No. 3868, Sept. 17, 1914. 



Aster puniceus, Lin. Var. monocephalus N. Var. 



Stem simple, terminated by a single head ; otherwise as in the species. 

 Rochester, Farwell No. 3866, Sept. 7, 1914. 



Aster puniceus Lin. Var. albiflorus, N. Var. 



Raj's white, otherwise as in the species. Rochester, Farwell No. 3862, 

 Sept. 7, 1914. 



NOTES ON MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS, INCLUDING SOME NEW VAR- 

 IETIES AND ADDITIONS TO THE MICHIGAN FLORA. 



Ceanothus sanguineus, Ph. Whil(> sojourning in the Ke- 

 weenaw Peninsula in the autumn of 1914, I came across a small 

 Ceanothus in fruit with still a few leaves adhering to the shoots of the 

 season. As I was there for the single purpose of making a search for 

 this particular plant, I gathered a few specimens, notAvithstanding the 

 rather poor condition it was in. The fruiting racemes were not over 

 3 inches in length, the jieduncles were rather stout and clustered to- 

 gether at what appeared to l^e the apex of the branch of the preceding 

 year, or on the old wood, and below any of the leaves then remaining on 

 the branches. The leaves and racemes, as to length and position, 



