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acteristic habits, tend to show that these plants have now attained a 
degree of permanence, making the treatment of them as species more 
satisfactory. 
The name, Lysímachta racemosa, which probably referred in part 
to the plant just discussed in these notes, was, as already explained, 
unfortunately used by Michaux for Z. stricta as well. And, further- 
more, to take up that name, formerly applied by Lamarck to Z. stricta, 
would lead to confusion. The varietal name used by Dr. Gray to 
designate this plant is the first which is quite free from confusion and 
possible doubt, and it is here applied to the plant now proposed as a 
species. The other plant, from Wells Beach, etc., although described, 
appears never to have received a name. 
Lysimachia producta. Stem glabrous, 0.5 to 1 m. high, simple 
or slightly branched: leaves opposite or in whorls of from 3 to 5, 
lanceolate, pale green or glaucous and scarcely veiny beneath, longer 
than the lower axillary pedicels (2 or 3 cm. long): raceme terminal, 
5 dm. or less in length, the ascending pedicels subtended by leafy 
bracts gradually diminishing in size towards the tip of the loosely 
flowered raceme: calyx 5 to 7 mm. high, the 5 divisions lance-attenu- 
ate: corolla 1.5 to 2 cm. broad, crimson at the base; the divisions 
ovate-oblong, rounded at the tips, with many dark lines: filaments 
unequal, dilated below, and united into a cup r.5 to 2 mm. high, the 
sinuses broad and rounded. — Z. racemosa, Michx. Fl. i. 128, in part, 
not Lam, Z. stricta, Ait., var. Producta, Gray, Man. ed. 2, 272. — In 
damp thickets and low ground, Maine and Massachusetts to Michigan. 
Maing, Sorrento, Aug. 10, 1889 (Geo. G. Kennedy); Mt. Desert 
Island, — head of North East Harbor and Lower Hadlock Pond, July 
12, 1897 (E. Faxon, E. L. Rand, E. F. Williams), Upper Hadlock 
Pond, July 9, 1898, Wildwood Farm road, July 11, 1898, Long Pond 
Meadows, July 22, 1898 (Æ. Z. Rand) ; by the Androscoggin, Gilead, 
September, 1897 (Miss Kate Furbish) : New HamPsHIrRE, Peterboro, 
July, 1898 (Miss Rebecca Gill) : Massacuusetts, Grantville (Welles- 
ley), July 12, 1854 (Wm. Boott) ; Oak Island, Revere, July 16, 1882 
(Herbert A. Young) ; Milton, June 22, 1890 (Geo. G. Kennedy): 
New York, reported by Prof. C. H. Peck (47th Rep. 31) from Nar- 
rowsburg, and originally collected in * New Yorck” by the elder 
Michaux : MICHIGAN, without statement of locality and collector (Gray 
Herb.). 
L. polyantha. Stem glabrous, 6 to 9 dm. high, simple or branched 
above: leaves generally in whorls of from 3 to 5, rarely opposite, 
ovate-lanceolate, rather veiny beneath, not glaucous, longer than the 
axillary pedicels (2 cm. in length), changing abruptly above to foli- 
aceous bracts: racemes terminal, the primary one from 5 cm. to 5 dm. 
long, profusely flowered (often densely so at the tips), the slender 
