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There were about thirty plants, all pistillate, growing with the 
ordinary form. I collected several specimens, but was unable to 
“place” the plant to my satisfaction, and laid itaside.. A short time 
ago my friend, Prof. A. Ruth, sent a specimen to Dr. N. L. Britton 
for determination. By him it was referred to A. plantaginifola 
(Linn.) Hook., var. monocephala, Torr. & Gray, heretofore known 
only from Louisiana. The variety differs from the type in several 
particulars. The single heads are about twice as great in diameter. 
The cauline leaves are narrower and more appressed and bract-like. 
The involucral scales are narrower and taper from nearthe base to the 
more or less acute apex. They are quite conspicuously marked with 
crimson below the scarious tips. In habit of growth and in size 
and form of the root-leaves, there seems to be no departure from 
the type. There were no transition forms among the specimens 
observed. If the characters above stated are constant, this Avz/fen- 
naria should be maintained as a good variety. 
Lithospermum tuberosum, Rugel. Collected near Knoxville by 
Prof. F. Lamson-Scribner in April, 1890. In the same month of 
the following year, collected by myself on the summit of a wooded 
bluff, a short distance above Knoxville. Corresponds, in every par- 
ticular, to Florida specimens of A. H. Curtiss’ collection. Distri- 
bution, according to the Synoptical Flora, Fla. and Tex. 
T. H. Kearney, JR. 
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, Knoxville. 
* Aster leiophyllus, n. sp. 
(PLATE CLVITI.) 
By the further study of living plants in the field and of dried 
specimens from new and distant localities; I am now convinced 
that the Aster published by me in the BuLLETIN, xvi. 67, as A. 
cordifolius, L.., var. levigatus, is a distinct species, and, since /evt- 
gatus cannot be retained because of former use, I have chosen 
another name of similar meaning. Although the new species © 
bears a general resemblance to A. cordifolius and sometimes grows 
with it, no forms intermediate have been discovered. The leaves, — 
in the fresh state, are usually thickish and leathery, and perfectly 
smooth, with a greasy feel, but in the dried state are much thinner, 
