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New England westward through the Lake region and the Central 

 States, while C. Amomum is strictly Alleghanian. In New England 

 both species occur and intermediate forms are occasionally met with. 



Comas patiiculata x Purpusi = C. Arnoldiana, Rehder^ is a 

 hybrid which originated spontaneously in the Arnold Arboretum. 

 As the two parent species grow not unfrequently together in New 

 England, it is to be expected that this hybrid will be found elsewhere. 

 It is probably best described as a Cornus pankiUata with the branches 

 of last year purplish instead of grayish. 



Cornus stohviifem has been reported from Rhode Island, but the 

 only specimen I have seen under this name from that state proved to 

 be C. Amomum. 



Linnaea borcalis. The American plant has been distinguished from 

 the type which occurs in Europe and Northern Asia as L. horealis, 

 var. americana (Z. amcricana. Forbes). It is, howx-ver. hardly spe- 

 citically distmct as considered by Britton in his Manual. The only 

 locality known in Rhode Island where it had been collected by S. T. 

 Olney has long been obliterated (see Rhodora 2 : 218). 



Lonicera oiiiailr/isis. This species is better known under the name 

 L. ci/iata, Muhlenl)erg, but since Marshall's name is about 30 years 

 older and the species is recognizable from his description, it has to 

 supersede Muhlenberg's later name. 



Lonicera coerulea. The American plant, at least that of northeast- 

 ern North America, belongs to Z. coerulea, var. vilhsa, Torrey & Gray, 

 which varies greatly in the pubescence and shape of the leaves. It 

 is chie% distinguished from the type by its more or less upright win- 

 ter buds and the glabrous campanulate corolla. 



Lonicera Itirsuta. The only specimens I have seen from the New 

 England states were collected near Middlebury, Vermont, by E. 

 Brainerd. No specimen from the type locality, which is Williams- 

 town, Mass., could be found in any of the herbariums consulted. 

 At the time of its discovery by Eaton, about 85 years ago, it seems 

 to have been plentiful there, for he says in his Manual (ed. 6, p. 210) 

 that two iniles west of Williams College he saw "hundreds in flower 

 climbing the trees and shrubs of an elevated ridge or hill in the sum- 

 mer of 181 7." If the wood where Eaton found it has not entirely 

 disappeared, the plant probably still exists there and a thorough 

 search at the fiowering time, about middle of June, in the region 

 ' Rehder in .Sargent's Trees & Shrubs i : 79, pi. 39 (1902). 



