186 Rhodora [OcToBER 
733 (1908); Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2, iii. 218 (1913).— Plant 
ingtes or sparingly branched, 3-12 cm. high: stem pubescent: leaves 
4-7 pairs below the inflorescence, 2-9 mm. long, glabrous on both 
itaaal ad A at first capitate, in maturity cylindric, 0.7-5 
cm. long, usually with only the 1-4 lowest pairs of bracts becoming a 
little remote: bracts similar to and only slightly larger than the leaves, 
with obtuse teeth: corolla 2.5-4 mm. long, deep brownish-purple, 
similar i in size and shape to that of E. Oakesir. — Barren ledges, alpine 
ton, hy sey 28, 1909, A. 8. Pease, no. 1, 527. 
Very close to E. Oakesii but differing in the usually larger stature, 
with the more numerous cauline leaves only slightly smaller than the 
bracts; in the usually remote lower bracts; and in the deep chocolate- 
color of the corolla. In this species, as in several others, there is a 
glabrous and a pubescent trend: the former the typical plant of New 
Hampshire, the latter an alpine plant of Newfoundland. 
2a. E. Wit1aMsit, var. vestita, r. var., foliis pubescentibus, pilis 
cri ispis; nodiis infra inflorescentiam 5-9; bracteae dentibus plerumque 
the bracts ae acutish, — NEWFOUNDLAND: dry aiorite peak, 
retype Mountain, Bonne Bay, August 26, 1910, F ernald & Wiegand, 
. 4009 (type in Gray Herb.); dry exposed thin soil on summit- 
saa altitude 335-520 m., ge Pas July 31 and August 7, 1908, 
— - Godfrey, nos. 8068 ‘and 806 
. PURPUREA Reeks, List of 4 Pl. and Ferns of Newfoundland, 
4 (gray — Simple or usually branched from near the base, 0.3-4 dm. h 
high: stems crisp-pubescent: leaves glabrous or nearly so on ah 
surfaces, with glabrous or ciliate margins, ovate-o blong to near y 
orbicular, the primary ones 5-15 (rarely -18) mm. a teeth fro 
round y acute: bracts similar: inflorescences becoming 
very —— the primary one 3—{ the full height of the plant, wit 
mewhat remote pairs of bracts; the lower bracts about one 
half as one as the internodes: corollas 2.5-4 mm. long, from deep * 
pale-purple with darker lines; throat usually with a yellow spo i 
upper lip shallowly notched, with revolute or rarely erect — 0 
bidentulate lobes; lower lip not distinctly ee with ascending 
truncate or bidentulate linear or oblong lobes.— Grassy OT sat 
banks and brackish shores, western Newfoundland and eastern Quebec 
