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Wisconsin or Florida, and there are no specimens from Wisconsin in the 

 Gray Herbarium. 1 



Small in his Flora, second edition, in 19 13, says of Euthamia tenuifolia, 

 "Massachusetts, Florida and Texas, and locally in the interior." Evidently 

 Dr. Small followed Britton and Fernald in assigning this species to the Lake 

 region of the interior, but I have not seen any specimens from the interior, 

 nor from Florida or Texas. 



Gray in Flora of North America in 1884, says of Solidago tenuifolia, 

 " New England to Florida and Texas," the range being thus restricted to the 

 sea-coast, but I have not seen any specimens of Euthamia tenuifolia 

 from Florida or Texas. Dr. Gray evidently included specimens of E- minor 

 and E- pulvErulEnta in Solidago tenuifolia. 



From a careful study of a large amount of material of Euthamia tenui- 

 folia and allied species, at my disposal, I have come to the conclusion that 

 Britton, Fernald and Small have based the isolated interior occurrence of 

 this species on specimens of Solidago Moseleyi, Euthamia media and 

 E- REmota. After more than thirty-five years acquaintance with this 

 species, it is relegated to the range given it by Dr. Gray in 1880, which is 

 that of a sea-coast species. 



Having studied this species somewhat critically, it is with some con- 

 fidence that I refer the following specimens to it. 

 3 1 assachusetts : 



Cape Cod, Fritchey, August 17, 1889, Herb. No. 75290; 



Cape Cod, Greenman 410, September 4, 1890, Herb. No. 738578; 



Norquit, Sturtevant, August 24, 1888, Herb. No. 75280; 



Sharon, Greenman 345, October 17, 1897, Herb. No. 738543; 



Southwick, Seymore 275, September 16, 1914, Herb. 789740; 



Woods Hole, Trelease, September 16, 1881, Herb. No. 75282. 

 Long Island: 



Eastport, collector not given, September 14, 1914, Herb. No. 75,278; 



Hempstead Plains, Schrenk, September 7, 1893, Herb. No. 75277; 



Woodhaven, Hulst, September 10, 1891, U. I. Herb. 

 Rhode Island: 



Kingston, Morong, August 21, 1879, Herb. No. 75319; 



Narragansett River, Englemann, August 20, 1879, Herb. No. 

 753io; 



1 In a letter to the writer dated March 2, 1917, Mr. S. F. Blake says, "Dr. Robinson 

 has handed me your letters regarding Solidago tenuifolia with the request that I look up the 

 matter for you. I find only two sheets of this species from the interior in the Gray Herbarium. 

 These are "'Prairies of Illinois, Dr. Mead'" and "'Moist prairie, Roby, Indiana, 20, Sept. 

 1906. 0. E. Lansing, Jr. No. 2648.'" I do not see that these specimens differ in any essentials 

 from material from Massachusetts and New Jersey. There is no material from Wisconsin in 

 the herbarium." 



I have not seen the specimens collected by Lansing, and therefore can not say what 

 they are, but the probability is very great that they are E. media. I have, however, examined 

 several sheets of Dr. Mead's collection from "Prairies of Illinois," and these are all E. media. 

 There appears no sufficient reason foi citing E. tenuifolia from Southern Wisconsin, as no 

 specimens are known from there, and as Illinois is not given in the Manual as part of the range 

 of this species, I maintain that not only this State, but Indiana also be taken from the range 

 of this species. 



