266 PROCEEDINGS; BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



NYMPHOZANTHUS. Yellow Pond Lilt. 

 {Nymphaea Man. ed. 7 and lU. Fl. ed. 2.) 



N. variegatus (Engelm.) Femald. Cow Lilt; Yellow Pond 

 Lily. — ( Nymphaea advena, var. variegata Man. ed. 7, md. Rhodora, 

 21: 187, 1919.) 



Ponds and slow streams; common. In Cranberry Pond, West 

 Stockbridge a leaf blade of this variety measured 4 dm. long, 2.6 dm. 

 broad and the sinus was closed by an overlap of 2.5 cm. 



N. microphyllus (Pers.) Femald. — Spectacle Pond, Sandisfield; 

 Housatonic River, Stockbridge; Sheffield (Churchill). 



X ? N. rubrodiscus (Morong) Fernald. — Probably a hybrid be- 

 tween N. variegatus and N. micwphyllus. Spectacle Pond, Sandisfield, 

 both parents growing near by. 



RANUNCULACEAE. CROWFOOT FAMILY. 



ACTAEA. Baneberrt. 



A. alba (L.) Mill. White Banebeeby. — Rich woods; common. 

 A. rubra (Ait.) Willd. Red Banebebry. — Rich woods; common, 

 forma neglecta (Gillman) Robinson. — Lenox. ■ 

 Specimens collected in Lanesboro (Churchill) and in Lenox are 

 apparently hybrids between A. alba and A. rubra. 



ANEMONE. Anemone, 



A. canadensis L. — Alluvial ground; occasional. Richmond; 

 Great Barrington; Sheffield. 



A. cylindrica Gray. — Dry hillsides and open woods; common in 

 the valley. 



A. quinquefolia L. Wood Anemone. — Woods; common. Alti- 

 tude 1400 feet, Florida. 



A. riparia Fernald. — {A. virginiana 111. Fl. ed. 2 in part.) 



Shaded banks; occasional in the valley. 



Specimens from Berkshire County have been determined by Pro- 

 fessor Fernald. The distribution of the species in the County is still 

 imperfectly understood. 



A. virginiana L. — Roadside thickets and shaded banks; common. 



Sepals leathery, greenish or greenish yellow, very pubescent on the 

 back, narrowly oblong, acuminate, 0.7 to 1.3 cm. long. 



