56 Rhodora [March 



specimens are nearly fjlabrous, excej)t one smaller ])lant — good V. 

 pnlmota. Dr. Eames writes tliat he remembers the jilant as "a con- 

 necting link between I', palmafn and ]'. Aflantica" (f. septendoba), 

 both of which grew there. lie adds, "I avoided the intermediates in 

 order to have something I could name." The station has been much 

 disturbed, but I trust that these "avoided" plants may yet be redis- 

 covered. 



24. V. cucuLLATA X PALMATA. — Atuoug the living plants sent 

 by Dr. Greenman from Granny Hill, Lexington, was one that, as it 

 developed during the past summer, I could account for only in this 

 way. It was extremely sterile, but produced numerous slender 

 cleistogamous flowers, like those of V. cucullata X sororia (no. 8). 

 The leaves were somewhat three-lobed, the V . palmnta present being 

 the "var. dilatata." On visiting the station, I observed, perhaps 

 100 meters away, in a marshy meadow at the base of the hill, plants 

 of V. cucullata. Miss A. M. Ryan the past summer found the same 

 hybrid in several places in East Lyme, Conn. 



25. V. CUCULLATA X PAi'iLioNACEA. — Much like the last and 

 no. 8 in its sterile subulate cleistogamous flowers, that are usually 

 tinged with brown; but different from both in being quite glabrous and 

 from no. 24 in showing no trace of lobes. — Southington, Conn., trans- 

 planted to garden by C. H. Bissell, seen by me Aug. 22, 1905; East 

 Lyme, Conn., 1905, Miss A. M. Ryan. Its luxuriant growth in cul- 

 tivation one season was such that from one plant twenty large speci- 

 mens were made by Miss Ryan for distribution. Found also in a low 

 woods on the line between New York and Yonkers, Sept. 8, 1905, 

 Eggleston & Brainerd. 



Two hybrids of V. rillosa with closely related species should be 

 here noticed. 



2G. V. PALMATA X viLLOSA. — Looks like small plants of V. pal- 

 mata, var. dilatata with the silvery pubescence of F. villosa on the 

 upper surface of the leaves. — I am indebted to Mr. House for the 

 recognition of this hybrid: Milltown, N. J., June 19, 1904; Darle- 

 carlia Reservoir, D. C., June 17, 1905, no. 1030; Rock Oeek Park, 

 D. C, May 13, 1905, no. 712. The same thing occurs at Ivy Hill 

 Cemetery, Philadelj^hia, and was pointed out to me by Mr. Stone 

 last September. 



27. V. AFFiNis X VILLOSA. — Much of what Mr. Stone, (1. c, p. 



