194 Rhodora [September 



24 (1841) excl. syn. Walt.; Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. 2. 37 (1884) excL syn. 

 L. and Walt. G. bermudense L. Sp. PI. i. 105 (1753), as to syn. Gronov. 

 and habitat only. G. bcrmudianum Willd. Sp. PI. i. pt. 2. 59(5 (179S), 

 as to syn. Gronov. and habitat only. G. puncticulosum , /3. jrilosum 

 DC. Prod. iv. ()01 (1830). G. rotund i folium L. #. bcrnni(l<n.sc Ktze. 

 Rev. i. 282, 283 (1891), at least in part. G. rotund i folium d. bermu- 

 dense f. pilosum Ktze. 1. c. 282. — Southern N. H. and southern Yt. 

 to D.C. and in the mts. to N. C. and Ky., west to 111., Kan., and 

 Tex. Representative specimens examined: — Virginia: along Peak 

 Creek, Peak Mtn., alt. 2200 ft., July 16, 1892, J. K. Small; Fall 

 Creek, alt. 585 ft., July, 1893, A. A. Heller, no. 1108 (this specimen 

 matches Clayton 313 fairly well). West Virginia: rocky hillside 

 near Travellers' Repose, Sept. 19, 1904, Greenman, no. 310. KEN- 

 TUCKY: Poor Fork P. ()., Harlan Co., Aug., 1893, T. H. Kearney, 

 Jr., no. 233. Texas: between Bejar and el Rio de la Trinidad, 

 May, 1828, Berlandicr, no. 1578. 



* * Stem merely finely incurred-uncinate on the angles or glabrous. 



Var. puncticulosum (Michx.) T. & G. Stem finely and usually 

 densely incurved-uncinate on the angles, at least below; leaves oval, 

 1-2.3 cm. long, 4-10 mm. wide, 2-2^ times as long as wide, their hairs 

 incurved-uncinate like those of the stem. — Fl. N. Am. ii. 24 (1841) 

 in part; Gray, Syn. Fl. i. pt. 2.37 (1884) in part. G. purpurcum Walt. 

 Fl. Car. 87 (1788), not L. G. puncticidosum Miehx. Fl. Bor. Am. i. 80 

 (1803), excl. Clayt. no. 313. G. punctatum Pers. Syn. i. 128 (1805). 

 — Virginia: Bedford Co., Aug. 1871, A. II. Curiiss. Georgia: 

 Bullock Co., dry pine barrens, June 20, 1901, R. M. Harper, no. 947. 

 Florida: Duval Co., roadside, June 10, 1902, A. Fredholm, no. 5290; 

 Lake Co., high pine land near Eustis, July 1894, G. V. Nash, no. 1383; 

 without definite locality, Chapman. Mississippi: Biloxi, July 19(H), 

 S. M. Tracy " = 4485." A specimen from dry woods, Athens, Ga., 

 June 25, 1900, R. M. Harper, no. 38, is intermediate between this 

 variety and the typical form. 



Var. laevicaule n. var., caule omnino glabro; foliis anguste ellip- 

 ticis 1.2-2.8 cm. longis 3-7 mm. latis, longitudine quam latitudine 

 2^-4-plo majore, sparse pilosis, pilis non valde incurvatis. 



Stem glabrous throughout; leaves narrowly elliptic, 1.2-2.S cm. 

 long, 3-7 mm. wide, 2^-4 times as long as wide, sparsely pilose with 

 hairs which are not strongly incurved. — Var. puncticulosum T. & G. 



