JSBW ENGLANl) PBESICABiAS lOS 



inches long, yery acute, aculeolate marginally and along mid- 

 vein beneath, otherwise almost or quite glabrous : only the earliest 

 pedicels seen, these filiform and half the length of the leaves : 

 calyx-tube hirtellous ; teeth triangular, acute. 



Farewell Creek, Cypress Hills, Assiniboia, J. M. Macoun, 37 

 June, 1895. Specimens young, but showing very characteristic 

 habit, foliage and pubescence. Seen only in Oanad. Geol. Surv. 

 Herb., n. 10124. 



18. A. TEEETiCAULis. Slender, rather firmly erect, 10 inches 

 high, freely dichotomous from the middle, the inflorescence ample 

 but leafy : stems with no trace of angularity, the lower inter- 

 nodes with but a faint trace of pubescence but that retrorse, 

 all the upper and the pedicels glandular-puberulent : leaves 1 

 to IJ inches long, narrowly elliptical, spreading, those of the 

 cyme the same and not much smaller, all sparsely hirtellous on 

 both faces and not more so on the margin : pedicels 1 inch long, 

 filiform : calyx not deeply cleft, the deltoid-ovate teeth abruptly 

 acutish. 



Waterton Lake, Alberta, J. M. Macoun, 39 July, 1895, Geol. 

 Surv. n. 10123. 



Some New England Persicarias, 



Acting upon suggestions made at pages 24 to 50 of these 

 Leaflets, Mr. Luman Andrews, of Southington, Connecticut, 

 during the season of 1904, made a collection of perennial Per- 

 sicarias, such as perhaps no other individual has gathered in a 

 lifetime, viewed from the standpoint of its utility as helping 

 toward the solution of hard problems first shown to exist, and 

 await solution, in the pages just indicated. His gatherings, 

 with the exception of one day's collecting at Springfield, Mas- 

 sachusetts, all were made within the State of Connecticut and 

 near Southington. 



To the copiousness of the very admirably made specimens, 



