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52 1 Rhodora : [Marca] 
Steud., with which, despite the reference.in the Index Kewensis, it 
has no connection whatever. 
2, SABATIA CAMPANULATA (L.) Britton (S. gracilis (Michx.) Salisb.). 
— Chironia campanulata L. Sp. i. 190 (1753). | Chironia gracilis Michx. 
Fl. i. 146 (1803). Sabbatia gracilis (Michx.) Salisb. Par. Lond. t. 32 
(1806). Sabbatia campanulata (L.) Torr. in Griseb. Gentian. 120 
(1839), as syn.; Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 259 (1894).— The name 
Sabatia campanulata has been in use by many American botanists for 
some years, but in the seventh edition of Gray's Manual, 655 (1908) 
the name S. gracilis is employed, and S. campanulata Torr. is referred 
to it with a mark of interrogation, presumably following the Synopti- 
cal Flora, ii. pt. 1. 115 (1878). Dr. Gray's hesitation to adopt Lin- 
naeus's name seems to have been due chiefly to the fact that the habitat 
of the plant was given as “Canada” in the Species Plantarum. No 
locality is indicated on the type sheet in the Linnaean Herbarium, 
however, and a specimen from Kalm, perhaps a cotype, in the Leche 
Herbarium now incorporated in the British Museum collections, is 
marked simply “America,” so that Linnaeus's reference of the species 
to Canada is obviously an error, due doubtless to the fact that so large 
a proportion of Kalm's plants came from Canada. The specimen 
from the Leche Herbarium is also authentic for S. gracilis Salisb., as 
it bears the name “gracilis Michx." followed by Salisbury's initials. 
Both sheets represent S. gracilis of Gray's Manual, a name which 
must be replaced by S. campanulata. The large-flowered variety from 
Florida should take the name SABATIA CAMPANULATA (L.) Britton, var. 
grandiflora (Gray) Blake (Sabbatia gracilis Salisb., var. grandiflora 
Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. pt. 1, 115 (1878). Sabbatia grandiflora (Gray) 
Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. ed. 1. 928 (1903)). 
In Small’s Flora the characters of S. campanulata and S. stellaris 
appear to be interchanged, so far as may be gathered from the some- 
what contradictory key and descriptions. In the key to species (p. 
927) S. stellaris is said to have “ calyx-lobes fully as long as the corolla," 
which would indicate S. campanulata; but in the description we find: 
“calyx glabrous; lobes narrowly linear, 8-12 mm. long, acute, fully 3 
as long as the corolla-lobes"; and again in the same sentence: 
“corolla pink or white; lobes oblong or oblong-spatulate, rarely 
surpassing the calyx-lobes.” S. campanulata according to the key 
has corolla lobes 1-1.5 em. long; but the description reads: "calyx 
glabrous; lobes....8-12 mm. long; corolla. ...lobes....about twice 
as long as the calyx-lobes." 
