262 
During the past summer I collected this plant near Jesup, 
_ Wayne County, Georgia, and was struck by its utter dissimilarity 
to C. pumila. It may be described as follows: 
Stem simple or little branched, 3-5 dm. high, slender, glabrous 
below, downy-pubescent above, as are the branches, petioles and 
peduncles; bark dull gray-brown; leaves large in proportion to 
the size of the plant, 12-15 cm. long, 5-6 cm. broad, oblong or 
oblong-obovate, acuminate or more often obtuse at apex, rounded 
at base, coarsely sinuate-dentate with short, spreading and rigid 
teeth, thick, almost coriaceous, upper surface dark green, glabrous 
and shining, lower surface covered with a short, dense, rather 
tawny, or, at least, not bright-white down; petioles 4-5 mm. long} 
mid-nerve prominent, primary veins 12-15 pairs, disposed at If 
regular intervals, branching and often recurved at the ends; P& 
duncles elongated, bearing numerous, rather remote clusters © : 
staminate flowers above and a few pistillate flowers below; ae ao 
volucrum of the fertile florets 1-3, on the lower part sterile. 
Ament generally maturing as in the preceding species [C. pumila ; 
The nut is generally much larger but less abundant than those ° 
the preceding species.’’* 
Differs from C. pumila in the dwarf habit, broader leaves; 
which are oblong or obovate-oblong and usually obtuse, while 
those of C. pumila are usually ovate-lanceolate and acuminate, ps as 
the shorter, more rigid and more spreading teeth, in the shining hg 
upper surface of the leaf and the more tawny hue of the down 0? 
the lower surface and in the shorter petioles. Re. 
Georgia: Jesup, Kearney; Florida: Jamony, Rugel; Lowe 
iana: Red River, Hale. Flowers in May (Plate 206). 
SPIR#A ViRGINIANA Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 17: 314 (1899). 
This well-marked Spir~a grows in considerable quantity ae 
cliffs of loose shale in the Gap of the Chilhowee Mountain, ea . 
which the Little River flows in Blount County, Tennessee- Cor 
lected in June, 1891, and again in June, 1893. 
SAXIFRAGA Grayana Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 178 (1894). 
~ Saxifraga Caroliniana A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. (II.) 3: 39 
(1848), not Schleich. : ae 
Abundant on limestone cliffs on the Tennessee River iB : 
Knoxville (altitude about 900 feet). Flowers in April. age 
the Knoxville plant has a spreading calyx, it corresponds 1 © 
* Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 615. 
