3IO AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 



Chickadee, i, 2, 4 to 7, 12, 13, Hell Diver, 9, 10, 1 1 



14, 16 to 19, 21, 22, 23, 25 Tree vSparrow, 4, 7, 11 to 14, 

 to 29 16, 21, 25 



Brown Creeper, i, 3, 4, 5, 6, Myrtle Warbler, 5 

 8 to 14, 16 to 19, 21, 22, 23, Hairy Woodpecker, 5 

 25 to 29 Kingfisher, 13 



Golden-crowned Kinglet, i, 3, Red-winged Blackbird, 14 

 4, 5 Screech Owl, 27, 30 



Total number species seen in November, 21. 

 Total number of species seen in autumn, 85. 

 Total number of warblers seen in autumn, 18. 

 Total number of sparrows seen in autumn, 9. 



A NEW VARIETY OF SAMBUCUS. 



BY J. A. NIEUWLAND. 



Sambuais puhens var. xanthocarpa Nwd. 



Sambucus racemosa var. xanthocarpa. 



Planta in omnibus partibus major quam in specie praecipue 

 quoad fructum, inflorescentiam fructiferam, et foliis; baccis 

 citrini coloris, 5-6.5 mm. latis et aequa longitudine, globosis, 

 subdepressis; seminibus ovoideis 2.5-3 mm. longis et 2 mm. 

 latis, facie interiore subcanaliculatis et transverse irregulariter 

 striatis. 



This plant was found in a rich miost and low woods at Summit 

 Farm No. 4, several miles west of South Bend, Ind., June 25, 1914, 

 Type No. 15000 N. D. U. Herbarium. White fruited specimens 

 have been noted in the older manuals but the yellow-colored 

 fruit is the least of the characters of this plant. Following 

 are the differences: the ovoid fruit is only 4.5-5 mm. long and 

 3.5-4.5 mm. broad in the red-berried type of our region, the seeds 

 less than two and one-half times as wide, though as long, and 

 ridged rather than flat or channelled, i. e. triangular in cross 

 section. The stigma remains are separated in the new plant with 

 depressed calyx, whereas subapiculate in the other. The fruiting 

 panicle is about three times as large and the leaves also larger 

 in the new variety. Only two or three panicles are found on a 

 branch, and in the species as many as six or even more. 



