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altissima L. In the pubescence of the stem the plant suggests S. 
rugosa but there the resemblance ceases, for Mr. Harger’s plant has 
the definitely “triple-nerved” leaves of S. canadensis. In the cinere- 
ous-puberulent lower surfaces of the leaves it is suggestive of the com- 
mon western S. canadensis, var. gilvocanescens Rydberg, which is 
found locally as far eastward as Vermont,! but that variety has the 
stems cinereous-pulverulent or at most puberulent. The plant of 
the Housatonic Valley, with villous stems, which Mr. Harger reports 
having seen at a number of stations in Connecticut, extends northward 
to the Deerfield Valley in Massachusetts, and it seems to be a 
distinct geographic variety. 
SOLIDAGO GRAMINIFOLIA (L.) Salisb., var. septentrionalis, n. var., 
caule glabro vel subglabro; foliis perviridibus lanceolatis vel oblongo- 
lanceolatis nec attenuatis apice obtusiusculis glabris vel subtus ad 
nervos paulo setulosis; corymbo laxo ramis lateralibus valde elongatis; 
capitulis plerumque glomerulatis; pedicellis paulo setulosis; involu- 
cro 44.5 mm. alto, bracteis apice viridibus. 
Stem glabrous or nearly so: leaves deep green, lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, not attenuate, bluntish, glabrous or beneath a little setu- 
lose on the nerves: corymb loose, the lateral branches conspicuously 3 
elongate: heads mostly glomerulate: pedicels a little setulose: in- 
volucre 44.5 mm. high; bracts green at tip.— NEWFOUNDLAND: 
ledges, talus and gravel, north bank of Exploits River below the falls, 
Bishop Falls, July 28, 1911, Fernald, Wiegand & Darlington, no. ’ 
and Grand Falls, August 12, 1911, no. 6306 (rrPx in Gray Herbarium); 
and gravelly railroad embankment, Grand Falls, August 14, 1911, no. 
6307. QueEBEc: gravelly beach of St. John (or Douglastown) River, 
Gaspé County, August 23, 1904, Collins, Fernald & Pease. 
' The representative of the continental S. graminifolia in central 
Newfoundland and the Gaspé Peninsula, differing strikingly in foliage 
from the typical form of the species which has the narrower leaves 
long-attenuate to sharp tips and the corymb ordinarily much denser, 
with branches of more uniform length. In the outline of its leaves 
var. septentrionalis suggests the western var. camporum (Greene), D- 
comb., = Euthamia camporum Greene, Pittonia, v. 74 (1902); but that 
plant has the firmer leaves light green, the corymb comparatively 
dense and the involucral bracts pale throughout. In the green-tpp 
nald), n. comb., = S. polycephala Fernald, Ruopora, x. 93 Sout 
Euthamia floribunda Greene, Pittonia, v. 74 (1902), not S. flor ibunaa 
1 Proctor, Vermont, W. W. Eggleston in Gray Herb. 
