132 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [AUGUST 
ad 3.5:1.4 cm. magna; bracteae ut in floribus masculis; ovaria 
sub anthesi ovoideo-oblonga ellipticave, sessilia vel subsessilia, albo- 
vel griseo-villoso-tomentosa; styli distincti, vulgo apice bifidi, 
rarius subbipartiti, stigmatibus oblongis bifidis 2-23plo longiores; 
glandula 1 ventralis, anguste ovato-conica, truncata, integra vel ut 
videtur pleraque bifida bipartitave, bractea subduplo brevior 
fructus elliptico-conici, circ. 7 mm. longi, fere sessiles, ut ovaria 
vel minus dense pilosa (interdum in forma porro observanda 
[nos. 61 et 62] fere glabri), valvis apertis paullo recurvatis. 
TYPE LOCALITY.—Western New Foundland, Bay of Islands, northeastern 
region of the Blomidon Mountain 
_RANGE.—Western New ocastlinid: Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay, and 
western Gaspé Peninsula, Mt. Albert 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—Western New Foundland, northeastern region of ~ 
the Blomidon (“‘Blow-me-down”’) Mountains, serpentine tableland, alt. about 
550m., July 24, 1910, Fernald and Wiegand (no. 3231,{.; G.; “‘prostrate near 
melting snow”; no. 3232, m., 3233, fr. type; G.; “prostrate”); Blomidon 
Range, July 3-5, rorr, C. S. Stewart (no. 29, st.; G.); Bonne Bay, serpentine 
tableland, alt. about 380 m., August 27, 1910, Fernald and Wiegand (nos. 3227, 
3228, fr.; G.)—Gaspé Peninsula, Mt. Albert, deep ravine near snow, July 23, 
1881, J. A. Allen (m., f.; G.); north slope of Allen’s ravine, on hornblende 
schist, July 26, 1906, Fernald and Collins (nos. 501, 503°, f., 507, fr.; G.); on 
wet serpentine slopes, July 23, 1906, Fernald and Collins (nos. 508, f., 510, M., 
514, fr.; G.); brookside near permanent water, alt. 700 m., Kos ci 13, Sicaihay 
Collins and Fernald (no. 60, fr.; G., N.; partim fructibus sati 
dry serpentine barrens, sete m. ait August 9, 1905, Collins and Fernald 
(no. 62, fr.; G.; partim fructibus glabratis ut in no. 60). 
In its vathine short and dense catkins, at the base not or hardly loosely 
flowered, this variety approaches typical S. anglorum, but differs in its firmer, 
more rounded, and soon glabrous leaves and the glabrate twigs, in which 
characters it comes near to the following varieties. There is also no. 3235 of 
Fernald and Wiegand, collected at the same time as no. 3231 “from near sea 
level to serpentine tableland, alt. about 550 m.” as a prostrate shrub. It 
occurs, according to the specimens in Herb. G., with the rounded leaves of the 
typical kophophylla, and also with more acute, lanceolate leaves, and both 
orms seem not to possess stomata in the upper leaf surface. So far as we 
know at preeent, — so no S. elas pies in the parexion Mountains, =e 
therefore t cann var. Macou 
(Rydbg.) m. (see my second article). It Sccgiat needs farther ar onl 
No. 3234, collected by Fernald and Wiegand in the northeastern region of the 
Blomidon Range, on serpentine tableland, about 550 m. alt., July 24, 191° 
