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VARIOUS NEW SPECIES. 181 
allii of the middle Atlantic slope, but taller, with longer, nar- 
rower and ascending rather than spreading foliage, a longer and 
more fastigiately branched corymb, etc. 
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POLYGONATUM VIRGINIcUM. Stem stontish, 3 feet high, 
notably striate: leaves elliptical, about 4 inches long and 2 in 
width, neither acuminate nor even acute, the short tip very ob- 
tuse, glabrous throughout, glaucous beneath, above of a dark 
rich green and marked conspicuously by about 17 slender par- 
allel nerves, of which 8 nearly equal the midvein in prominence, 
the alternating ones less prominent: peduncles 2-flowered, rather 
short, ascending, the pedicels subequal: perianth tubular, 7 
lines long. 
Bluffs of Holston River, southeastern Virginia, May, 1892, 
John K. Small ; type in U. S. Herb., labelled Z commutatum, 
like that species in size, but in size only, being a true ally of 
P. biflorum. 
POLYGONATUM CUNEATUM. Stem rather slender, 14 feet high, 
the naked lower portion finely striate: leaves narrowly cuneate- 
elliptic, elongated, stout, 5 inches long, 14 in width, acuminate, 
tapering somewhat cuneately at base to a short petiole, glaucous 
beneath and sparsely and minutely pubescent with very slender 
yet obviously acute hairs, dark green and glabrous above, both 
faces pervaded by 9 to 11 nerves of which the midvein alone is 
very conspicuous, 2 laterals less so, the others faint : peduncles 
filiform in flower and pendulous, the lower 2-flowered, the upper 
1-flowered : perianth small, 4 lines long, whitish as to the tube: 
berries small, 
In forests of sugar-maple on the northern peninsula of Mich- 
igan, near Turin, Marquette Co., 31 May, 1901, Bronson Barlow ; 
type in U. S. Herb., sheet 416,083; beautifully marked by the 
distinctly cuneate-based long foliage. 
PoLYGONATUM BOREALE. More than a foot high, nearly 
upright, rather slender, the leafy portion of the stem shorter 
than the striate naked basal part: leaves large for the plant, 
elongated-elliptic, 4 inches long, 14 in width, glaucous beneath 
and loosely pubescent with very fine more or less curled and 
appressed hairs of equal thickness from end to end, above pale 
and glaucescent but glabrous, the manifest nerves 5 to 7, but 
