1915] Fernald and Wiegand,— Genus Euphrasia 199 
Ruopora, iv. 26 (1902); spe ibid. 189 (1902); Robinson & 
Fernald in Gray, Man. ed. 7, 733 (1908); Cushman, orton xi. 
13 (1909); Fernald & Wiegand Ruopora, xii. 103, 143 (1910). 
E. officinalis Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. pt. 1, 305 (1 878), in part; rete 
Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xii. 103 (1885) and xiii. 232 (1886); Lawson, 
Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. xiv. 10 (1887); Vroom, ibid. 12 (1887); Clinkerius. 
Bot. Gaz. xiii. 322 (1888), in part; not L.— Plant 1-4 dm. high, 
simple or more or less branched; salient long, spreading or arcuate- 
ascending: leaves ovate-oblong, glabrous, pa primary 0.5-2 em. long, 
coarsely toothed; teeth acute or obtuse: spikes rather short, except 
in full fruit, occupying the ends of the ftene aa branches, in maturity 
becoming 3-15 cm. long: bracts 5-18 pairs, glabrous, conspicuous, 
broadly ovate, more or less eee coarsely aristate-toothed, 
the lowest in maturity 0.5-2 ¢ rt: flowers medium to large: 
corolla pale, 7-10 mm. long; poe ‘ip tinged with purple, shallowly 
bilobed, the lobes partly reflexed, each 2-3-toothed; lower lip large, 
white with dark-purple lines, fan-shaped, rei lateral ans wide- 
spreading.— The commonest Euphrasia throughout southeastern 
Maine, the Maritime Provinces, ie Newfoundland, rarely found far 
away from habitations. NEWFOUNDLAND: fields and roadsides, 
Killigrew’ s, August 3, 1911, Fernald & Wiegand, no. 6176; dry road- 
sides and pastures, Carbon near, August 6 and 7, 1911, Fernald & 
Wiegand, no. 6177; roadsides and dry clearings, Whitbourne, August 
8, 1911, Fernald y Wiegand, no. 6178; Clarenville, July 18, 1902, 
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Bryant; grassy fields, Cow Head, July 23, 1910, Fernald & Wiegand, 
no. 3984; fons | gravel near Bay of Islands station, July 18, oe 
& Ki orig’ no. 3981; da amp pastures, Birchy Cov 
July fala , 1901, Howe & Ling, no. 789. QuEBEC: sterile 
soil, western end of Bonaventure Island, puke 7 and 8, 1907, Fernald 
Collins, no. 1165; fields and tops of sea-cliffs, Paspébiac, July 26, 
1902, Williams & Fernald; stich grassland, New Carlisle, July 28, 
1902, illiams & Fernald. MaAGpaLEeN IstaNnps: dry sandy summit 
of Great Bird Rock, August 7, 1914, St. John, no. 1645; dry sandy 
headlands, Brion Island, August, 1914, St. John, nos. 1643, 1644; 
