46 Edward L. Greene: Novitates Boreali-Americanae I. 
l. c, p. 190*), which is from Utah. In the presente species each Jeaflet 
is at base subcordate on one side the midvein, and on the other not 
even truncate, but rather tapering slightly. This is a new character for 
a species of this genus. 
4. Convallaria globosa Greene, nov. spec. 
Folia laete viridia, nec glaucescentia. Perianthium urceolatum, nec cam- 
panulatum. Filamenta perigyna, i. e. juxta medium perianthii inserta, horizon- 
taliter extendentia; antherarum apices basim styli horizontaliter attingentes, 
This interesting new Convallaria is known to me only as grown for 
some years past in the wild garden of the distinguished ornithologist, 
Mr. Robert Ridgway, at Brookland, in the District of Columbia. 
Both the urceolate perianth, and the highly perigynous insertion of 
the stamens, which extend forward horizontally instead of standing ver- 
tically, are very pronounced specific characters; but ihe differrences of 
vegetative characters between this and C. majalis are quite as marked. 
The herbage of C. globosa is of a light and virid green, without trace of 
bloom; the leaves have a more fibrous and less fleshy anatomy, and are 
of eomparatively short duration, withering, away and disappearing at the 
end of summer, whereas the leaves of C. majalis, growing close by them, 
are fresh and green even at the end of November. 
Mr. Ridgway informs me that he had his plants from some dealer 
who sent them to him as native in the mountains of North Carolina. 
5. Convallaria majuscula Greene, nov. spec. 
C. majali plus quam duplo major; foliis ut in C. globosa, laete viri- 
dibus, nec glaucescentibus. Perianthium late campanulatum. Filamenta 
brevissima subhypogina, erecta; antheris magnis, oblongis, obtusis, basi 
cordatis, pistillum arrecte circumstantibus. 
Also a North American species, occasionally collected in the higher 
mountains of Virginia, from the Peaks of Otter northward; also in 
those of southeastern Pennsylvania. 
Hitherto always listed as identical with Old World C. majalis, it differs 
totally from that by its very large light-green leaves without trace of 
bloom, with excessively fibrous anatomy, insomuch that the surface of 
the leaf when growing looks to be plicate rather than plane and even. 
Both these American species of Convallaria are southern, and when 
compared with C. majalis, flower much later, their foliage perishing at 
the end of summer. ; 
XIIL Viola gracillima St. Hil, Pl. rem. Bras. (1824), p. 275 
var. /ncisa W. Becker nov. var. 
(Originaldiagnose.) 
Stipulae ineisae, 
Brasilia merid.: Lapa prope S. Paulo; 22. VII. 07, leg. A. Usteri. 
Über die Art vgl. Beih. bot. Ctrlbl, XXII (1907), Abt. II, p. 95. 
*) cf. Fedde, Rep. IV (1907), 359. 
