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V COREOPSIS MAJOR LINEARIS N. var. 
Perennial by a slender creeping root-stock, slender, sparingly 
and inconspicuously pubescent. _ Stem erect, 3-5 dm. long, simple, 
conspicuously channeled ; leaves three-parted, the segments linear, 
3-11 cm. long, 1-3 mm. broad, acuminate at both ends ; heads 
solitary, 3-4-cm. broad ; outer involucral bracts 4 mm. long, oblong, 
obtuse; rays oblong obtuse, somewhat two-cleft; achene smaller 
than in the typical form. 
Although reluctant to describe varieties the above is so distinct 
from Coreopsis major that it would be hardly fair to pass it. It is 
much more distinct than the variety Oe/meri. The strongest 
characters are’ the very slender build and the strikingly narrow 
leaf-segments which average about 2 mm. in breadth. Their 
length is also greater than we find the ordinary forms of the type 
I noticed the plant at different localities in middle Georg}, 
and collected it on Little Stone Mountain, at the base of Stone — 
Mountain, and also in the Yellow River Valley, in Gwinnette 
county. ; 
Coreopsis Major Walt. Fl. Cor. 214 (1788). 
_ A peculiar state of this species has been coming to my notice 
for a year or two. It is the above with its leaves undivided, there 
being two opposite and entire leaves at each node in place of the 
normal three-parted ones. It seems to have been first collected 
by Dr. and Mrs. Britton, at Black Mountain Station, North Caro- 
lina. Later Mr. Heller secured it near Salisbury, N. C., and last 
season (1893) I came upon it at the western base of Stone 
Mountain, Georgia. Besides having this state we have an inter- 
mediate one in which the upper leaves are entire and the lowet 
ones three-parted in the usual manner. This latter was secured 
by Dr. and Mrs. Britton at Balcony Falls, Virginia (1885). 
New Plants from Idaho, 
By Louis F. HENDERSON. 
-PHACELIA. IDAHOENSIS, n. sp. 
_ A foot and a half to two feet high, from nearly glabrous at 
bottom to slightly villous-hirsute in the inflorescence, leafy to the 
top ; radical and lower cauline leaves about 5 inches long, on peti- 
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