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deeper color and with a more polished surface, mostly one to 
three-seeded; seeds pale, yellowish-brown, finely and evenly 
reticulated, the network on the angles tending to break up into a 
papillose roughness. 
H. Canadense 1 find in poor, light or sandy soil, often on oF 
near rocks, and in partly shaded situations; A. majus grows 
in dry open ground, never on rocks or in shade, as far as I 
have observed. It comes into flower about the fourth week of 
June, two or three weeks later than Canadense, which, in the same 
neighborhood, may be found with full-sized pods before majus 
shows the first signs of flower-buds. 
It should be said that these observations applv to the plants 
as they occur in the vicinity of New York, where also the spect- 
mens were collected from which the foregoing descriptions are 
drawn. The general distribution of the two plants, and their re 
lative abundance, now become subjects of much interest in regard 
to which it is to be hoped that early information will be forthcom- 
ing. I may add that at York Harbor, Maine, in August last, 
H. majus was found to be a common plant over the downs near — 
the sea, while H. Canadense was not met with. 
RIVERDALE ON Hupson, New York City. 
New or little known Plants of the Southern States: 
By T. H. KEARNEY, JR. 
(PLATES 206-209.) 
GALIUM PaRISIENSE L. Sp. Pl. 108 (1753). 
Galium Anglicum Huds. Fl. Ang]. Ed. 2, 69 (1778): “1 
Abundantly naturalized in dry, sandy fields about Knoxville, 
Tenn. June-August. 
DisporuM MACULATUM (Buckley) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 282 
188 (1888). . : um 
Collected near Knoxville, Tenn. Grows in rich soil 0” b f 
of the Tennessee River. Also along the Emory Rivet, it 
Harriman, Roane Co. April. oa. 
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