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Bulletin 3 



Some Recent Additions to the Maine Flora. 



[This article is an expansion of notes kept during an informal talk 

 by Prof. Fernald. Specimens of all the species were exhibited, and 

 remarks made upon the distribution and critical characters of each. The 

 notes upon distribution are given here, with Prof. Fernald's permission, 

 in the hope that they mav be of interest to those unable to attend the 

 meeting. E. B. C] 



The following plants represent interesting discoveries in 

 the flora of Maine during the past few years. Some are 

 merely extensions of range, others result from segregations 

 due to recent critical studies upon the flora of the Eastern 

 United States. 



Eycopodiu??i lucidulum Michx., var. porophilum (Lloyd & 

 Underw.) Clute, a variety recently described from the 

 southern Alleghanies, has been found along the St. Francis 

 river in Aroostook County by Prof. Fernald, and at Gilead in 

 the Androscoggin valley by Miss Furbish. Eragrostis hyp- 

 noides (Lam.) BSP., ranging from the Champlain valley west- 

 ward, has recently been collected at Orono; E. capillaris (L.) 

 Nees., has been found at North Berwick and at Canton by 

 Mr. J. C. Parlin, and at Bangor by Mr. Knight. Rynchos- 

 pora capillacea Torr., var. leviseta E. J. Hill, was collected by 

 Prof. Fernald at Winslow in 1898, the only station known 

 east of Michigan. Carex siccata Dewey, reaches its north- 

 eastern limit in Cumberland County and the Androscoggin 

 valley; C. alopecoidea Tuck., collected at Vassalboro by Mr. 

 Chamberlain in 1902, is known elsewhere in New England 

 only from the Champlain valley; C. gra?iularis Muhl., var. 

 Haleana (Olney) Porter, occurs at Winslow with the Rynch- 

 ospora mentioned above, this being the only station yet found 

 east of the Connecticut valley; the station for C. saxatilis L., 

 on Mt. Katahdin, is the only one known south of Hudson 

 Straits. 



Juncus bufonius L., var. halophilus Buchen. & Fernald, 

 is abundant in the brackish marshes, along the Gulf of St. 



