156 _ ‘THE Ottrawa NATURALIST. -[November 
responsibility. As we grow older we are too apt to feel that we © 
alone know best how to conduct the affairs of the society or in- 
stitution and are loth to give up our hold to others. But even if 
occasional mistakes are made it is better to let new hands and 
fresh minds come to the front and before it is too late to engraft 
the spirit of the founders on the rising generation of workers.— 
Through the neglect of this important duty many excellent begin- 
nings have later languished and promising local collections have 
gone to decay or been dispersed. 
A NEW ANTENNARIA FROM EASTERN QUEBEC. 
M. L. FERNALD. | 
The common Antennaria of open calcareous soils in the 
counties of Bonaventure and Gaspé in eastern Quebec is a plant 
with the silvery-white foliage forming close mats which are ex- 
tremely dense—much denser than in any of the described species _ 
of eastern Canada and New England. The spatulate leaves are 
very tiny for an Antennaria, when fully: developed ranging in 
length from 8 to 18 mm. and in breadth from 2.5 to 4.5 mm. 
In size, outline and color as well as in the dense matting of 
the foliage, and in the very short stolons, the plant immediately 
suggests Antennaria microphylla Rydberg, and its allies of the 
Rocky Mountains. Its involucre and pappus, however, are like 
those of A. neodiotca Greene. In fact, although the plant as it 
occurs on the red calcareous-conglomerate rocks about Percé 
wou'd not suggest to the botanist from farther west the common 
A. neodioica with leaves ranging from 1 to 4.5 cm. in length and 
from 5 to 18 mm. in breadth, material from the head of the Baie 
des Chaleurs and from Bic on the St. Lawrence shows it to pass 
gradually to the ordinary A. neodzorca with larger more broadly 
spatulate-obovate less whitened leaves. On this account the 
Gaspé plant seems best treated as a variety, and it is here pro- 
posed as 
ANTENNARIA NEODIOICA Greene, var. GASPENSIS. var. nov. Sar- 
mentis dense czespitosis brevibus valde foliosis ; foliis inferioribus 
supra albicantibus vel argenteis spatulatis 8-18 mm. longis 2.5- 
4.5 mm. latis apice rotundatis vel subacutis apiculatis, foliis cau- 
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