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Studies in the Botany of the Southeastern United States.—IV, 
By JoHn K. SMALL. 
(PLATE 246.) 
SIEGLINGIA CHAPMANTI nN. sp. 
Wiry, slender, glabrous (except the tops of sheaths and parts 
of the inflorescence), bright-green, perennial by a horizontal root- 
stock. Culms solitary or two or three together, erect, strict, 9-15 
dm. tall, mostly purple about the nodes; lower leaves rather 
numerous, nearly erect, 4-6 dm. long, the upper few, divaricate, 
somewhat shorter, all firm, flat when young, soon involute and al- 
most filiform, 7—11-ribbed, smooth and glabrous; lower sheaths 
about 1 dm. long, upper ones often 2 dm. long, all %—% shorter 
than the internodes; ligule a short fringe of rigid villous hairs, 
above which, on the upper surface of the leaf, is a tuft of longer 
villous hairs; panicle averaging about 2 dm. high, viscid above, 
broadly ovoid, its branches rigid, filiform, divaricate (not drooping 
at the ends), the nodes tufted with bunches of silvery-villous more 
or less viscid hairs ; spikelets very slender-pedicelled, rather few, 
7-8 mm. long, tinged with purple, almost linear (when dry oblong) 
5-flowered; empty glumes lanceolate, one-nerved, the lower one 
34 longer than the upper; flowering glumes oblong-elliptic, 3- 
nerved, 3-pointed by the excurrent nerves which are villous for 
\% their length; palet 2-nerved, scabrous on the two nerves, 
slightly curved. 
A species of southern distribution separable from Steglingia 
seslerioides by its more slender and wiry habit, the very slender and 
diverging branches of the panicle and the usually conspicuous 
tufts of viscid hairs at the nodes throughout the panicle. 
I found it last season growing in sand on the slopes of Cur- 
rahee Mountain, near Toccoa, Georgia, and along theYellow River, 
Gwinnett County, in the same State. Its range may be given 
as follows: Georgia, as just cited, to Texas: J. Reverchon ; Bige- 
low, Camp No. 4, between Ft. Smith and the Rio Grande, south 
to Florida: Chapman, Curtiss (3454) Duval County. 
Quercus GeorciAna M. A. Curtis; Chapm. Fl. S. States, 422 
(1860). Although heretofore supposed to be confined to a single 
Station and to exist only in shrub form, Q. Georgiana is now 
known to have a considerable range and also to reach a develop- 
ment which allows it to be classed as a tree. 
