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sessile scarcely-bracted pistillate one; pistillate spikes single, but - 
oftener two, and frequently three, the lower ones with conspicuous 
bracts and on slender, exserted peduncles, of which the lowest 
rarely starts from near the base and is very much elongated (as 
happens also in the allied C. polymorpha), all of them sometimes 
staminate at the apex (C. Carteri Porter): perigynia crowded 
a bove, looser below, turgid, deep olive-green, nerved, globular, with 
a very short, more or less curved beak, or else narrowed upward and 
somewhat ovoid (C. tetanica Canbyi (Olney) Porter), both kinds 
being occasionally found in the same spike; scales broad, with 
brownish-pur ple margins, very obtuse, with or without rough awns, 
lower ones as long or longer than the perigynia, middle and upper 
ones shorter or even half as long. ° 
From C. polymorpha it is distinguished by its rigid habit, 
smaller and narrower leaves and the much shorter beak of the 
Perigynium, and from C tetanwca, by its stiffer habit, shorter and 
broader staminate and pistillate spikes, turgid and usually globu- 
lar shorter-beaked perigynia, and the deep-colored margins of the 
ge Tuos. C. PORTER. 
An Examination of the Pubescence of the Styles and Filaments of 
Lonicera hirsuta Eaton, L. Sullivantii Gray and 
L. glauca Hill. 
By A. Ay TYLER. 
(PLATES 181 AND 182.) 
; As to the pubescence of the styles and filaments of Lonicera 
hirsuta Eaton, L. Sullivantii Gray, and L. glauca Hill, the char- 
acters given in Gray’s Manual of Botany are: 
“L. hirsuta, lower part of filaments hirsute.” 
“L. Sullivanti, filaments nearly glabrous.” 
. i. S/auca, style and base of filaments hifsute.” 
Prikegs a view to determining, if possible, whether these charac- 
Rays Correct and possess the distinctive value usually gree 
tag have made an examination of the specimens of the three 
Pecies in the herbarium of Columbia College, kindly furnished 
y Dr, Britton, at whose suggestion this examination hasbeen 
| ao Not all the specimens of L. /irsuta, however, were = 
ded among those examined. The specimens in the herba-- 
