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4,473 feet above sea. In western North Carolina it was observed 
from elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 feet. It was confined, as far as 
noticed, to edges of woods and thinly timbered woods, where the 
underbrush is scattered. On Elliott’s Knob, at the places where it 
is most plentiful, the woody growth is composed almost entirely 
of Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and a stunted form of Quercus ilicifolia 
about two feet high. 
Sotmpaco Buck.evi, T. and G, Fl. N. A. 2: 198 (1841). 
This is one of the most interesting additions to the northern 
flora. Collected on the Peak of Massanutten Mountain, Rocking- 
ham county, August 15th, altitude 2,900 feet. It is abundant, but 
only on the backbone of the ridge, and very little of it was in flower 
atthat time. Associated with it was a slender, almost glabrous form 
of S. bicolor. 
HELENIUM TENUIFOLIUM Nutt. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 7: 66 
(1834). = : 
Collected at Norfolk, September 23, 1892, where there was 
quite a patch of it near the N. and W. yards. A few plants were 
observed early in the past summer, but none collected. Its first 
appearance so far north and east. 
New or noteworthy North American Phanerogams—VIII. 
By N. L. Britton. | 
(PLATE 173.) 
Picea RuBRA (Lamb.) Link, Linnzea, 15: 52 (1841). 
I have lately been much interested in the Spruces, and have 
observed them closely on the Blue Ridge in Southwestern Vir- 
ginia, where I became familiar with two species, one of which I 
Supposed to be the White Spruce, Picea Canadensis. The same 
two species occur on the slopes of Mounts Marcy and McIntyre, 
in the Adirondacks, but neither of them is P. Canadensis, which 
species I did not see. It is reported from Northern New York, 
but I did not encounter it. fee 
The two species of the Blue Ridge and the Central Adiron- S Me : 
dacks are the Black Spruce, P. Mariana, and: the. erg eset P. 
