170 LEAFLETS. 



inches long, 1/^ to 2/^ inches wide, from oblong and lance- 

 oblong to long-oval, subcordate and rounded at base, or even 

 sessile and cordate-clasping, at apex obtuse but ending in a 

 stout niucro, vivid-green and glabrous above, and with very- 

 broad, white midvein, beneath paler, but chiefly by a thin 

 white indument of short tomentellous hairs; rameal foliage of 

 half the size of the properly cauline, oval-elliptic : cymes few 

 and large, borne mostly, or only, at summit of the main axis 

 of the plant, litle surpassed by the few subtending sterile leafy 

 branches : sepals long, triangular lanceolate, surpassing the 

 tube of the small short whitish or greenish corolla. 



This perfectly distinct and very notable ally of A. ca7ina- 

 bintim has been well represented in my herbarium in four fine 

 sheets sent me by Mr. I^uman Andrews of Southington, Con- 

 necticut, in the summer of 1903. They were collected by 

 Mr. Andrews in the neighborhood of Southington, 17 July, 

 when the plant was in fair flowering condition, and have 

 remained in my herbarium until now, under the name now 

 published ; meanwhile nothing like this plant makes its 

 appearance from any other quarter. The species is said to 

 inhabit open ground, in sandy soil. 



Apocynum ithacense. Allied to A. procerum, but a small 

 plant, barely 2 feet high, but very erect and strict, stem naked 

 at base for 6 inches, above that bearing 5 or 6 pairs of properly 

 cauline leaves, the lowest oblong, barely 2^ inches long, 

 others oblong-lanceolate, 3 inches long, all subsessile, only 

 mucronately acute, glabrous throughout, bright green above 

 and marked strongly by white midvein and distinct diverging 

 lateral veins; branches few, their leaves elliptic-lanceolate; 

 flowers chiefly in an ample terminal cyme, two only of the 

 branches bearing each a small cyme not far above the main 

 one; sepals long, lanceolate, acute; corolla small, white, the 

 very short tube quite campanulate, the lobes still shorter, 

 broad, obtuse. 



A fine northeastern species, white-flowered, collected by 

 Mr. F. V. Coville, 27 June, 1885, at "Six Mile Creek, below 



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