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published in the November Butters, the plant has been found 
by Prof. A. Ruth and Mr. T. H. Kearney, Jr., at Wolf Creek, 
Eastern Tennessee, and by myself at the Falls of the Yadkin Rive’ 
in Stanley county, middle North Carolina, where it grows in the 
sand in shady places at the bottom of the cafon. The lathes 
locality is within the range as formerly known, but the former 15 4 
little west of the range shown in the above cited paper. 
Hypericum Buckteyi M. A. Curtis. Amer. Journ. Sci. 44: 80 
(1843). 
When on the summit of the Thomas Bald, on the Georgia and 
North Carolina boundary, in 1893, I encountered a peculiar Hyper 
icum. This summit is nearly 5,300 feet above the sea level and 
is remarkable for its shape, which is almost knife-like, being but 
a few yards broad and three miles long by actual measurement. 
The top, which is composed of soil and outcropping gneiss, is free 
from timber, except a few scattered red oaks. On the gneiss out- 
crops this Hypericum forms dense cushions and mats, rising above 
the ground only two inches. Altitude has had a striking effect om 
the species there and at first sight one is not inclined to refer it to 
the above. The locality is in view of the original and later stations 
for H. Buckleyi and a comparison with all the material at hand 
shows these differences. Its leaves are at least one-half smaller 
than the usual and rather constant form. The seeds are one-third 
smaller and more curved, while the flower and all its parts, together 
with the capsule,are also one-third smaller than those from the 
neighboring territory. 
MONNIERA CRENULATA N. Sp. 
Perennial, bright green, very aromatic. Stem procumbent of 
decumbent, creeping, ascending at the ends, 3-6 dm. long, 
branched from the creeping nodes, more or less channeled, pilose 
with rather rigid, irregularly jointed hairs; leaves broadly of 
orbicular-ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 1.5~2.2 cm. broad, subcordate 
and amplexicaul, obtuse or slightly emarginate at the apex, re- 
_motely but distinctly crenulate, mostly eight-nerved, obscurely 
_ pilose-ciliate near the base and on the midrib beneath, glandular- 
punctate, exceeding the internodes, except on the lower part of 
the stem; pedicels I-1.5 cm. long, pilose; bractlets 1 cm. long, 
_ very similar to the leaves in shape, texture, etc., but eciliate ex- 
cept a tuft of hair at the apex; calyx segments lanceolate, ciliate, 
- nearly equalling the bractlets; corolla campanulate, 1-1.3 cm. 
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