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landica, the fascicles sometimes developing into short sterile 
branches. Lower leaves of the stem reduced or rudimentary, 
early deciduous, the lowest reduced to appressed scaly bracts. 
Corolla longer and narrower than in J/arylandica, more delicately 
veined but not glandular-puncticulate, more contracted at the 
throat 4-5” long, 2” broad, the lobes longer than in Marylandica, 
especially the upper one, the two lateral lobes erect or slightly in- 
curved, the lobes of the upper lip often narrowly oblong. Surface 
of the corolla-tube shining, greenish and purplish, the interior 
green and dull, the lobes varying from yellowish-green to dull 
purplish-red, or sometimes a bright pink-red; sterile stamen 
greenish-yellow, its lobe slightly more adherent than in Mary- 
/andica and mostly more abruptly dilated to the broadly truncate 
top which is %4’’-1” wide. Calyx-lobes broadly or narrowly 
ovate, obtuse or acute, slightly margined. Flower-buds shining, 
bright green with a purple spot at the top. Capsules ovoid-conic 
to elongated-conic or attenuate, passing into the thickened base 
of the style, 2’-5’’ long, 114-34” wide, at maturity slightly com- 
pressed and impressed along the sutures, mostly brown, the sur- 
face often distinctly reticulate-veined. Seeds a little larger than 
those of Warylandica and darker, otherwise similar—irregularly ob- 
long, often curved, strongly wrinkled striate and pitted. Roots 
fewer and simpler than in M/arylandica, much stouter and longet, 
coalescing basally to form a large irregular woody structure which 
may be as much as six inches in longer diameter. 
Wooded hillsides in rich soil, straying into open ground along 
roadsides where it sometimes becomes much branched and un- 
usually stoutly developed. 
Common near New York City. Dr. Britton finds it common 
on Staten Island. I have met with it within eight miles of the 
Connecticut line and in the Pocono region of eastern Pennsylva- 
nia. Its further distribution remains to be ascertained. ie 
Begins to flower at New York from before the middle of May 
to the end of the month. Full sized fruit is already formed early 
in June, and by the end of the month only a few belated flowers, 
if any, remain. , 
Although this species occurs in much the same kind of situa- 
tions as S. Marylandica, the two are rarely found growing together, 
or even inhabiting the same piece of woods. Near New York are 
various tracts of woodland inhabited exclusively by one or the 
other species; twice only have I found them growing together, — 
apparently in accidental association in both cases. o 
Allusion has been made to differences in the root-structure 
