1905| A NEw GOLDENROD FROM THE GASPE PENINSULA. 167 
simplice stricto fere 3-6 dm. alto; capitulis 3-5, glomerulatis ; 
involucris companulatis, squamis glabris vel glabrescentibus. 
QuEBEC, boggy tablelands, altitude g00—1,0o00 m., Mt. Albert, 
Gaspé Co., August 12th, 1905 (Collins & Fernald). Tall plants, 
becoming 1.6 m. tall, {rom alluvium of the Little Cascapedia 
River, July 209th and 30th, 1994 (Collins, Fernald & Pease) 
probably represent var. monzicola washed down to richer soil and 
more favorable surroundings. 
Gray Herbarium, Harvard University. 
A NEW GOLDENROD FROM THE GASPE PENINSULA. 
By M. L. FERNALD. 
While as:ending the River Ste. Anne des Monts in Gaspé 
County, Quebec, Prof. J. F. Collins and I found in the gravelly 
alluvium of the river, about midway between the sea and the 
Forks, scattered plants of a handsome and to us quite unfamiliar 
Solidago.- The occurrence of the plant only as isolated specimens, 
amongst the everywhere abundant Solidago elongata, on the flood- 
plain of the river, suggested very strongly that it had washed 
down from one of the alpine tablelands ‘or ravines of the Shick- 
shock Mountains, and we naturally hoped soon to find the real 
home of the goldenrod. This hope was encouraged by our find- 
ing near by and under similar conditions isolated plants of Avradbzs 
alpina, Lychnis alpina, Vaccinium ovaltfolium, and various other 
species which we knew to abound in certain regions of the Shick- 
shocks. 
Such exploration as we were able to carry out in the moun- 
tains, however, —the study of a limited portion of Mt. Albert— 
showed us only two alpine goldenrods, Sol7dago multiradiata Ait. 
and S. decumbens, Greene, both abundant in their respective areas, 
but clearly distinct from the plant seen in the valley below. This 
plant, known as yet only from the valley of the River Ste. Anne 
des Monts, is apparently a unique species of the Thyrsiflore nearest 
allied to .S. mulézradvata and the anomalous plant described by Dr. 
Gray from the Mogollan Mts , in New Mexico, as S. multiradiata, 
var. neo-mexicana, From the former polar species which abounds 
