7 Rhodora [JANUARY 
of Quebec and northernmost Maine, as well as on the Saskatchewan 
Plains has been already characterized.'_ The others, which seem not to 
have been heretofore distinguished, are as follows: — 
S. HISPIDA, var. disjuncta, n. var., caulibus gracilibus 0.7-2.5 dm. 
altis albido-tomentosis; foliis utrinque hispidulis, basilariis spathulato- 
oblanceolatis 1-2 cm -latis, caulinis 2-5 infra inflorescentiam basilariis 
similibus; panicula racemiformi subsimplici laxe cylindrica 3-15 cm. 
longa, pedicellis remotis 1-5-cephalis; involucro mm. longo. 
Steins slender, 0.7-2.5 dm. high, white-tomentose: leaves hispidu- 
lous on both surfaces; the basal asthilati-blancgiiade, 1-2 cm 
wide; the cauline 2-5 below the inflorescence, similar to the basal: 
panicle racemiform, subsimple, loosely cylindric, 3-15 cm Posi 
pedicels remote, 1—5-headed: involucre mm. long. EW 
FOUNDLAND: calcareous cliffs, Steady Brook Falls, near mouth of the 
Humber River, July 16, 1910, Fernald, Wiegand & Kittredge, no. 4071 
(Type in Gray Herb.). Quesec: calcareous cliffs, altitude 900-1125 
m., Table-top Mountain, August 7, 1906, Fernald & Collins, no. 775; 
Montmorency a eS 4, 1902, J. R. Churchill. 
PIDA, var. . var., caulibus glabris vel sparse puberulis; 
foliis pabeis vel paces zat subtus ad nervos pilosis margine eciliatis 
vel sparse ciliatis, basilariis eager vel anguste obovatis 1-2.5 
em. latis plerumque subacutis, caulinis 7-20 infra inflorescentiam 
basilariis similibus gradatim ninoribus, superioribus 1-5 em. longis 
—8 mm. latis; panicula thyrsiform rmi densa; involucro 3-5 mm. longo. 
astiné ‘o the basal, risen ive smaller; the upper 1-5 em. long, 2 
de panicle thyrsiform ense: involucre ng-— 
NeEwFounD serpentine tableland (altitude 550 m.) and ones of 
rasan, August 21, 1910, te and, nos. 40 
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Mac Ri ae du Lo 1914, Bro. Victorin, no. 588. 
NEw ; BEC Nee: Nepisiguit Falls, August, 1873, J. Fowler. 
In its most pronounced form closely simulating the southern S. 
erecta Pursh, but distinguished by its deep orange-yellow rays and by 
the greener involucre with fewer series of bracts. ! 
S. HISPrpA, var. arnoglossa, n. var., caulibus crassis puberulis 2-3 
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1 Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 4 (1834); Fernald, Raopora, x. 87 (1908). 
