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southwesterly stations noted in Connecticut in the recent Catalogue ! 
of the plants of that state are at about the same distance. 
In lately re-examining our Antennarias in the general collection of 
the Academy two sheets of plants of particular interest were found. 
These were both collected by C. W. Short, a name inseparably asso- 
ciated in botany with that of Kentucky. His labels, like those of 
many of the botanists of somewhat earlier days, ofttimes bear rather 
meager information. This is unfortunately true in the present case, 
but Mr. Stewardson Brown assures me that when there is no intimate 
locality noted the specimen came from the Lexington region of Ken- 
tucky, this being his regular and consistent method of labelling. The 
one sheet bears two plants, in good condition, with this label in his 
own hand: — 
* Gnaphalium plantagineum 
On thin clayey lanes. Ky-fl: May 
C. W. Short" 
The other sheet bears three plants with a rather similar label. The 
interesting point is that only one of the plants is what is now known as 
Antennaria plantaginifolia, while the remainder are specimens of the 
large-leaved series in which both the basal leaves and those of the 
stolons are bright green and glabrous above from the first — quite 
definitely referable to 4. Parlini.? 
Although the basis of this record may not be satisfactorily conclu- 
sive for Lexington, no doubt need be cast upon it for Kentucky. From 
the occurrence of A. Parlinii as far west as Iowa, taken into consider- 
ation with its abundance in the lower altitudes of the Blue Ridge at 
Natural Bridge, on the Potomac at Washington, and at low elevations 
in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, we would rather expect 
to find it occurring in country of no great elevation on the western side 
of the southern Alleghanies — country very like the Lexington region. 
The extensions of range recorded in these notes seem to be very 
logical and natural; they are all southerly extensions along lines of 
1 Flowering Plants and Ferns of Connecticut. Ct. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull., 
xiv. 389 (1910). 
2 The second sheet mentioned shows staminate plants, the only specimens of this 
sex of A. Parlinii that have come under my notice, except some from above Wash- 
ington along the Potomac, and a single large and luxuriant colony found by Mr. C. 8. 
Williamson and myself at Harrington, Delaware. The extreme rarity of staminate 
plants would seem to be an actual, demonstrated fact and not one at all to be ac- 
counted for by an insufficiency of intensive field-work. 
