84 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Garden failed to reveal this speeinien. It probably is to be re- 
garded as V. scpte7itrio?ialis.] 
V. lanceolata L. Abundant in tlie wet dune hollows. [Recorded 
by ./. Dirifiht, Jr. (I), p. 13), but the specimens on which this is 
based are V. immnJifolid] Listed by //. T. Gilssow. II. Sf. John, 
no. 1,277 (H). 
FI. — June and July. Fr. — August. 
V. primulifolia L. Rare, on dry sandy banks. Col lected by 
J. Dwlght, Jr.; II. St. John, no. 1,278 (H). 
FL — June to August. 
V. pallens (Banks) Brainerd. Common in the wet dune hollows, 
and along the swampy borders of the fresh-water ponds. H. Si. 
John, nos. 1,279, 1,280, and 1,281 (H). 
Fr. — August and September. 
[V. BLANDA Willd. is listed by //. T. Giissow. The plant on which 
the record is based proves to be V. incognita, var. Forbesii.] 
V. incognita Brainerd, var. Forbesii Brainerd. See Bull. Torr. 
Bot. CI. xxxviii. 8 (1911). Found only by //. T. Giissow (E); and 
//. S. Glazcbrook (H). 
FI. — June. Fr. — September. 
ONAGRACEAE. 
Epilobium molle Torr., var. sabulonense Fernald. Rbcdora, 
XX. 31 (1918). Quoting from the original publication "habitu foliis- 
que ut apud formam typicam; caulibus foliisque dense cinereo-pilosis, 
pilis adpressis incurvatis; capsulis cinereo-pilosis valde glandulosis. 
"Habit and foliage as in the typical form: stems and leaves densely 
cinereous-pilose with appressed incurved hairs: capsules cinereous- 
pilose, copiously glandular." 
Nova Scotia: swampy edge of fresh-water pond at Life Saving 
Station No. 3, Sable Island, Sept. 9, 1913, Harold St. John, no. 1,282 
(type in Gray Herb.); rare, in a bog at No. 3 Station, Sable Island, 
(1899) John Macoun (C. no. 21,189). 
FL, Fr. — September. 
"The only Epilobivm known from Sable Island, 100 miles off the 
coast of Nova Scotia, is a plant collected in 1899 by Prof. John Mac- 
oun and in 1913 secured in quantity by Dr. Harold St. John; and from 
