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ing, .8—3 dm. long, at length almost filiform, nearly naked, simple 
or sparingly branched and finally diffuse ; leaves mostly basal, 
spatulate or obovate, 1-3 cm. long, obtuse, entire or undulate, 
sessile or narrowed into a short petiole; stem leaves reduced to 
narrow inconspicuous bracts, except a pair at the first or second 
node; pedicels filiform, at length reflexed, 2-4 cm. long; calyx- _ 
segments almost linear, 2-3 mm. long, acutish, twice shorter than 
the capsule; corolla 1-1.3 cm. long, its segments flat ; capsule linear- 
oblong, about 4 mm. long, acute or acutish ; seeds globose-oblong, 
.5 mm. long, orange, with a small tubercle at the end. 
Mostly on wet rocks, North Carolina to Mississippi, south to 
Florida. Spring to Fall. Ascends to about 365 meters on Little 
Stone Mountain, Georgia. 
GAYLUSSACIA URSINA (M. A. Curtis) T. & G.; A. Gray, Mem. Am. 
Acad. (II.) 3: 49. 1846. 
Flowering specimens of this rare huckleberry were collected 
by Mr. A. M. Huger, in the mountains about Highlands, Macon 
county, North Carolina, June, 1895. The altitude was about 
710 meters. : 
SoLipAGO Pursui Porter, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 311. 1894. 
_ «* # * Two remarkable southern stations * * *,’ namely 
McCalls Ferry, Pennsylvania, and Great Falls of the Potomac, are 
mentioned in the Synoptical Flora as localities for this northern 
Solidago. 
In the latter part of August, 1894, I was surprised to find 
handsome specimens growing in crevices of the rocks at the bot- 
tom of the cafion at the falls of the Yadkin river, and at the Nar- 
rows some miles above the falls in middle North Carolina. The 
plants differ from specimens from the northern localities in their 
greater size and glabrous achenes. There is an abundant growth 
during the last part of August and the first weeks in September, 
but at other seasons hardly a vestige of the species can be found. 
The average height of the plants is about three feet; a few speci 
mens attained a height of four feet. At these localities the species 
is more plentiful and attains a greater development than it does at 
the northern stations. p 
SOLIDAGO GRACILLIMA T. & G. F].N. A. 2: 215, 1841. 
In September, 1894, I found this species on the summit of : 
Little Stone Mountain, Georgia. Heretofore it has been known _ 
only from middle Florida, from collections by Dr. Chapman. — : 
