Geum virginianum L. var. Murrayanum Fernald 



Irving William Knobloch 



On June 6, 1930, a Geum was collected at Angola-on-the- 

 Lake, in western New York, which a superficial examination 

 took to be Geum virginianum L. but which later checking showed 

 to be the variety Murrayanum Fernald. The variety is, accord- 

 ing to Fernald (Rhodora 25:99, 1933), distinguished from the 

 species proper by its strictly glabrous fruits. Specimens of this 

 variety from western New York are on file at the Gray Her- 

 barium and it is more common than the species in the Cayuga 

 Lake basin region, according to Eames and Wiegand, but the 

 state herbarium at Albany, N. Y. has no western New York 

 specimen on file. There are three specimens in the herbarium of 

 the Buffalo Museum of Science labeled Geum virginianum from 

 western New York. Two of these, collected in Buffalo long be- 

 fore the variety had been differentiated from the species, are 

 definitely the species having their fruits abundantly setose. The 

 third sheet has the fruits glabrous and should be labeled var. 

 Murrayanum Fernald. It appears therefore that the record 

 herein mentioned from Angola-on-the-Lake, N. Y. is the first 

 published record of this variety from this vicinity. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



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