198 Rhodora [OcToBER 
Nova Scotia: Commeauville, August, 1900, L. L. Dame; La Have 
River, August 6, 1910, J. Macoun, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 80,660. 
Maine: Machiasport, August, 1898, M.A. Barber; South West Har- 
bor, August 30, 1890, E. L. Rand, September 19, 1892, Fernald; 
fields, Great Cranberry Isle, August 5, 1890, J. H. Redfield, 1897-98, E. 
L. Rand; Baker’s Island, July 22, 1901, Rand; South Duck Island, 
August 9, 1893, Redfield; fields and roadsides, Sunshine, Deer Isle, 
August 26, 1912, A..F. Hill, no. 294; Swan Island, August, 1910, 
Kate Furbish; clearings and fields, Dark Harbor, Islesboro, August 14, 
1913, Woodward, Bissell & Fernald; roadside, Clinton, August 13, 
1911, R. C. Bean; roadsides and dry grassy door-yard, Bayville, 
August 30, 1911, F. O. Grover; Portland Road, Brunswick, August 26, 
1913, Kate Furbish. New York: pasture, Waddington, August 29, 
1914, Orra Parker Phelps, no. 95. 
Similar, in the long spikes extending nearly to the base of the plant, 
to E. canadensis, but the branches fewer and less basal and the corolla 
slightly larger, with darker lines and with wide-spreading lobes of the 
lower lip; and the bracts less spreading and with slightly sharper 
teeth. The collections of E. stricta are all of recent date and the 
habitats so generally are'fields, roadsides, lawns, and other situations 
associated with civilization that it seems that EZ. stricta has been 
recently introduced from Europe. In Maine it is spreading rapidly 
and in recent years has extended into well known areas where It 1S 
reasonably certain that it formerly did not occur. 
9a. E. srricra, var. tatarica (Fischer), n. comb. E. tatarica 
Fischer in Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 777 (1825); Wettstein, Monogr. 4 
bec; Eurasia. QuEBEc: grassy shore, Natasa 
Saguenay County, September 6, 1915, St. John; grassy shore, Bet- 
abundant at Percé, August, 1904, Collins, Fernald & Pease; Mont 
Rouge, Percé, July 23, 1905, Williams, Collins & F ernald; sir 
of Gaspé Bay, Douglastown, August 22, 1904, Collins, Fern 904 
Pease; dry open soil, mouth of Grand River, August 11-15, 190% 
Collins, Fernald & Pease. 
Possibly introduced, but seeming like an indigenous plant. a 
10. E. americana Wettstein, Monogr. d. Gatt. Eophe ee 
(1896) and Bot. Gaz. xxii. 401 (1896); Britton & Brown, Ill. sm 
182, fig. 3326 (1898); Robinson, Ruopora, iii. 275 (1901); Kenneey: 
