130 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
‘‘ priority of place” claim; neither of which principles has as yet 
received universal recognition. With regard to the latter, ‘‘ P. spathe- 
formis Tuckerman in herb.” immediately follows ‘‘ Var.? spathula- 
is in G : 
formis,” as ‘‘s atheformis” would hav 0 appropriate signi ace. 
Tt is remar Kable that neither the ‘* Cheek. list”? nor the Illustrated 
Morong’s plate is figured from British specimens. The synonymy 
of the plant is as follows :— 
P. spatn#rormis Tuckerman ex Robbins in A. Gray, Man. Bot. 
N.U.S. ed. 5, p. 487 (1878 
P. gramineus Li. var.? spathulaformis Robbins 
P. varians Morong ex Fryer in Journ. Bot. cone 33, t. 287. 
&; rene i Morong in Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, iii. pt. 2, 
6 (1893). 
Perhaps, however, as has been suggested above, it should be 
quoted as 
P. spatrnutzfrormis Tuckerman (sphalm. spathaeformis), &¢.— 
Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
ARTEMISIA STELLERIANA IN NEW ENGLAND. 
[Tue following ~~ by Mr. M. J. Fernald of the Gray 
Herbarium, published in the February number of Rhodora (pp. 
88-40), forms a useful penne to that by Mr. N. Colgan printed 
in this Journal for 1894, pp. ap 6, and is therefore here reprinted 
in the belief that it will be of interest to se readers. It may be 
noted that in the Cybele Hibernica (ed. 2, p. 495) the plant is noted 
by Mr. Colgan as ‘spreading on the North Bull in 1898.""—Eb. 
Journ. Bor.] 
of a seo ste racy Hearts of sand- dunes and the drier 
and Sandy Hook—it was apparently unrecorded in our botanical 
literature until within the last iarecomary. Probably the first 
station noted in eastern America was at Nahant, Massachusetts, in 
1877. A specimen collected there, or on the adjacent Lynn Beach, 
by Dr. W. G. Farlow, i in 1879, is caapaes ‘growing wild in oe 
