960 NINETEENTH REPORT. 



LABIATACEJ5. 



OciMUM BASiLicuM Lin. var. glabratum Benth. 



Collected near Cass Lake by Mr. C. Billington. Probably an escape 

 from cultivation. 



Lycopus asper Greene. 



Banks of Detroit River at Wyandotte. No. iSSt, August 20, 1917. 

 Has been reported as L. lucidus from Port Huron by C. K. Dodge. 

 Lower part of stems prostrate and rooting at the joints. 



RINGENTACEtE. 



Penstemon Digitalis (Sweet) Nutt. 



Reported from Adrian in Beal's Michigan Flora. I have collected it 

 on Belle Isle, No. 1916, June 20, 1905, and No. 1.229 from Algonac, 

 June 22, 1916. 



APARINACEJ^:. 



Galium Aparine Lin. var. eschinospermum (VVallr.), N. Comb. 



Galium Vaillantn D. C. Fl. France IV, 263, 1805. 



Galium agreste Wallr. Var. echinospermum Wallr, Sched. Crit. 59, 

 1822. 



Galium Aparine Lin. var. J'aillantii (D. C.) Koch. Fl. germ. 330, 1837. 



A smaller plant than the type with smaller leaves and fruit. On 

 Parkedale Farm, May 30, 1914. No. 3652 and No. 3964 from Detroit, 

 June 12, 1915. 



Galium triflorum Mx. var. viridiflorum D. C. 



Stems smooth. Near Marl Lake, No. 4305, July 9, 1916. 

 Galium Labradoricum, Wiegand. 



Probably has been confused with G. tinctorium. It is a smaller plant 

 with narrower and shorter, soon reflexed leaves and smaller fruit. Marl 

 Lake, No. 4187, June 11, 1916; Bloomfield, No. 4197, June 15, 1916, 

 and No. 4267 and 4271 at Tacoma, July 2, 1916. 



COMPOSITACEJE. 



Heliopsis helianthoides (Lin.) B. S. P. var. minor (Hook), N. Comb. 



Heliopsis laevis Pers. var. minor Hook, Comp. Bot. Mag. I, 98, 1835. 

 Heliopsis laevis Pers. var. gracilis T. and G. Fl. N. Amer. II, 303, 

 1842. 

 Stem simple, strict, ending in a single head; leaves very thin, very 

 slightly scabrous. Near Rochester, No. 4416, Sept, 3, 1916. 



