ADDITIONAL NOTES ON NEW FORMS 

 OF RUDBECKIA 



By Stewart H. Burnham. 



TN the November, 1913, number of the American Botanist, 

 the editor pubHshed a very interesting article on "The Pro- 

 duction of New Forms of Rudbeckia." One of the new forms, 

 Rudhcckia hirta var. hicolor Clute was found several years ago 

 in July, by Dr. Chas. H. Peck, the veteran State Botanist of 

 New York, who mentions such a plant in his Remarks and 

 Observations of the New York State^ Museum Report (27 :30. 

 1894 Bot. ed. Dr. Peck says : ''Rudhcckia hirta L. A form 

 with the lower half of the rays of a beautiful brown color 

 occurs at Middle Grove," Saratoga county. ''Mrs. Anthony 

 sends the same form from Gouverneur." The specimens are 

 preserved in the State Herbarium at Albany : and Dr. Peck 

 wrote on the label an herbarium name, calling the plants 

 var. hicolor, although he never published the name. 



In the Lake George region of New York, the Black-eyed 

 Susan is known as the Yellow Daisy, and is usually considered 

 a weed. It was probably introduced into this section about 

 1856 in grass-seed. Double flowered plants were found on the 

 shores of Lake George in 1900 by the late Dr. George D. Hulst 

 of Brooklyn : and five years later I found a plant with similar 

 flowers at Vaughns north of Hudson Falls. During July, 

 1897, a curious quilled-rayed plant was found in a meadow at 

 Vaughns : a form which mig-ht be characterized as : 



Rudhcckia hirta var. tuhulifornic n. var. Like the type, 

 except the ray flowers are tubular, very slender, 1/3-2/3 inches 

 long, 2-5 lobed. Type in my collection. 



