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equally obovate, rounded but obtusely pointed and tipped with 

 an arista 2mm. in length and clothed with a few scattered hairs; 

 filaments 7 mm. long, equalling the anthers. Fruit not seen. 



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we are indebted to Messrs. E. H. Kilmer and John C. Gifford of 

 May's Landing. Atlantic County, New Jersey, who collected it 

 in August, 1888, at Egg Harbor City. The specimens were 

 communicated to me by Rev. Dr. John C. Peters, an alumnus of 

 Princeton College, who has furnished much valuable information 

 concerning the plants of that portion of the State. It had pre- 

 viously been collected by Capt. John Donnell Smith in Sumter 

 County, South Carolina, and I am indebted to Dr. Watson for a 

 sprig from the specimen preserved in the Gray herbarium. The 

 Egg Harbor plants evidently grew in water, which had, however, 

 dried up at the time of collection. N. L. Britton. 



New Varieties of Well-Known Species. 



ArABIS L^VIGATx\, (Muhl.), Poir., van BURKII. 



Leaves linear or lance-linear, entire or rarely with one or two 

 teeth, not auricled at base; flowers half the usual size; sepals 

 broad, and as long as the petals; seeds wing- margined. 



Found first (1852) on the dry hills of Franklin Co., Penn., 

 where it is common, and later (1867) near Harrisburg, by Mr. 

 Isaac Burk. 



Fragaria VESCA, L., var. Amertcaxa, (van /?., Torrey & 

 Gray, Fl. N. Am. i, p. 148). 

 Softly villous; leaves thin, becoming glabrate with age, 

 sharply serrate-dentate; scape and peduncles slender; flowers 

 small ; fruit ovoid, of a light pink color; surface of the receptacle 

 smooth and shining, not pitted ; akenes prominent and barely 

 attached to it. 



■ The European plant is naturalized in many places, but this 

 variety is undoubtedly native. It occurs on cliffs, in wild, shaded 

 ravines, and has been collected at a number of stations in the 

 northern United States and Canada* 



RUBUS VILLOSUS, Ait., van montanus. 

 More slender and smaller in all its parts; fruit oblong, or 





