1899] Fernald-Sornbok(;i£r — Labrador Flora. 105 



"Viburnum pauciklorum, Pylaie. 



Red Bay, July 12, Webeck, Aug. 4, 1891 {Bou'doiii College 

 Expcd. Nos. 34, 204). Red Bay, July 4, 1892, Makkovik, Aug., 

 1896 {Soniborger, Nos. 41, 40). Formerly collected at Okak 

 {Herb. J. Gay). Reported by Packard from Caribou Island, 

 Quebec, (5. R. Butler). 

 *AsiER LONGiFOLius Lam., var. villicaui.is, Gray. 



Makkovik, Aug., 1896, coll. Adolf ^/^r/rr (Sornborgcr No- 

 163). Not formerly known north of the St. John and Resti- 

 gouche Valleys in New Brunswick. 

 *ASTER PUNICEUS, L., var. OLiGOCEPiiALUs, F"ernald, ii. var. 



A form oi Aster puniceus, which it has been impossible to 

 place with satisfaction, is the plant familiar to botanists who 

 have collected in Tuckerman's Ravine and Oakes Gulf in the 

 White Mountains of New Hampshire. This White Mountain 

 form has long been known only from that region, but the 

 Bowdoin College party brought back fine specimens from 

 Labrador, though somewhat taller than those from the better- 

 known alpine stations. Plants apparently referable to the 

 same form have more recently been collected on the north shore 

 ■of Lake Superior by G. S. Miller, Jr., and last September on 

 'hills at Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, by the Rev. A. C. Wag- 

 home. The plant may be expected, then, to have a much 

 broader range than we yet know. In the outer foliaceous bracts 

 ■of the involucre this northern and alpine plant differs from other 

 forms oi A. puniceus, but this character is inconstant; and many 

 heads have the involucre seemingly identical with that of true 

 ^./?^;/?a7/i-, showing the plant to bean extreme form of that 

 ■species rather than a distinct specific type. The plant may be 

 •characterized as follows : 



Stems from 2.5 to 7 dm. high (reduced in alpine specimens), 

 more or less pubescent above, glabrate below : leaves h'om 

 lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, with conspicuously clasping 

 bases, entire or sparingly appressed-serrate, glabrous or some- 

 what scabrous above, glabrous beneath or sparingly pubescent 

 on the broad midrib : branches of the inflorescence shorter than 



