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from it as a variety or independent species the smooth-stemmed and 

 broader-leaved A. capillacea, DC. That Rafinesque himself had a 

 correct knowledge of these plants is shown by his further remark ' 

 that ''The A. capillaris N[uttall] is the real A. dichotoma, of Mx. 

 quite distinct by broad leaves elliptic, stem filiform smooth." 



'I'he only points in the description of A. polygonoidcs, which can 

 raise any question, are the lax branching and subpedicellate flowers, 

 but it must be remembered that Rafinesque employed these expres- 

 sions only in a comparative way while endeavoring to separate 

 several forms of the same plant, all regarded by Dr. Torrey as 

 Qtieria canadensis. Fortunately authentic specimens of Rafinesque's 

 Anychias were preserved in the Torrey Herbarium, and we have 

 recent and critical authority in Dr. Britton's notes on the genus '^ for 

 regarding A. polygonoides, Raf., as identical with the puberulent plant. 



The species of Anychia should therefore stand as follows. As 

 from habital similarity they have been much confused, it seems best 

 to cite specimens as w^ell as synonymy pretty fully. 



A. DiciroTOMA, Michx. Stem filiform, glabrous : leaves elliptical, 

 thin : inflorescence diffuse ; dowers distinctly pedicellate. — Fl. lior.- 

 Am. i. 113 (1803); Raf. New Fl. iv, 43. Queria canadensis, L. 

 Sp. 90 (1753). Q. dichfltoma^ Moench, Meth. 351 (1794). Q. capil- 

 lacea, Nutt. Gen. i. 159 (1818). Q. canadensis, w^.r. capilhicea, Eaton, 

 Man. ed. 4, 422 (1824). Q. canadensis, var. capillaris, Britton, Bull. 

 Torr. Bot. Club, xiii. 187 (1886). Anyc/iia dic/totoma, var. capilhicea, 

 Eaton, Man. ed. 6, 295 (1833). A. capillacca, DC. Prodr. iii. 369 

 (1828); Redfield, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vi. 61 ; Britton, ibid. xiii. 

 187 ; Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 426. A. capillaris, Raf. 

 (by clerical error), New Fl. iv. 43. A. Jiliformis, Raf. ace. to 

 Britton, 1. c. A. canadensis, Britt., Sterns, & Poggenb. Prelim. Cat. 

 N. Y. 44 (1888) ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. ii. 40; Britt. Man. 405.— 

 New Hampshire : Nottingham, 20 July, 1900, A. A. Eaton. Ver- 

 mont : Bellows Falls, 22 Aug. 1902, Blanchard; Pownal, 23 July, 

 1898, Eggleston; North Pownal, 11 Aug. 1902, Blanchard. Massa- 

 chusetts: Danvers, 5 July, 1896, Sears; Melrose, 27 Sept. 1882, 

 Perkins; on gravel. Pine Hill, Middlesex Fells, 21 July, 1895, 

 Charles Eliot; Medford, 3 Aug. 1878, Perkins; damp rocky woods, 

 Woburn, 28 July, 1895, Rich ; sandy soil, Cambridge, 11 Sept. 1891, 

 Fernald; on Snake Hill, Waltham, 13 Aug. 1866, W. Boott; Blue 

 Hills Reservation, 11 Aug. 1894, Manning; roadside in shade, 

 Sharon, 12 July, 1896, Williams; Highland Grove, Walpole, 20 

 Aug. 1878, Young. Rhode Island: Thurber; Diamond Hill, 



' New Fl. iv. 43. 2 Hull. Torr. Bot. Club, xiii. 187. 



