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Columbia University (« Red River, Dr. Pitcher ”), excluding its va- 
riety, which may be separately characterized as follows: 
Pubescence throughout denser and more pilose than in the 
type, the smaller and narrower leaves dull grayish green, the leaf- 
lets much narrower and dentate rather than crenate, the pairs 
closer and often more numerous. The hairs of the stem are 
longer and weaker than in the type and often loosely appressed, 
the pubescence above tending to become dense and pilose-canes- 
cent, The leaflets are mostly 4 pairs, though often 5-6 pairs on 
the narrowed lower leaves, narrowly-oblong (linear- or lanceolate- 
oblong) to elliptic, often inequilateral and backwardly subfalcate, 
blunt or subacute, abruptly narrowed or rounded at the sessile 
base, mostly dentate or dentate-serrate, often with broad, shallow, 
uneven teeth, the odd one mostly sessile, or when petiolulate fre- 
quently cleft basally into a pair of narrow decurrent lobes, above _ 
finely pubescent to softly appressed pilose, whitened below and 
softly appressed pubescent, the veins pilose, subleaflets narrower 
than in the type, often borne well forward in the interspace. 
Stipules irregularly cut-serrate or dentate-lobed, usually less in- 
Cised than in the type with shorter termination, the upper ones 
Often dentate-serrate on the inner margin and more spreading. 
Fruit often with more convex disk and longer more spreading 
bristles, usually also with a perceptible rim. Apparently the 
tuberous thickenings of the roots tend to become stouter than in 
type and to develop on shorter roots; the largest found were 314’ 
long by 334” thick. (Plate 282, fig. 4.) 
The specimens that have come under my observation would 
appear to indicate that this form was of more coastwise range than 
the type extending from southern New York to Virginia Beach 
and to middle North Carolina and East Tennessee. 
5. AGRIMONIA BRITTONIANA DN. sp. 
Becoming stout and tall and strongly virgate-branched, 2°- 
7° high (6° of at York Harbor, Maine), the stems sometimes 
5’ thick at the base, erect, but often leaning under the weight 
of the heavy fruiting racemes, somewhat aromatic. Stem rough- 
€ned with glandular papillae and hirsute with short spreading 
brownish hair which passes into a downy or pilose-hairy pubes- 
cenceinthe racemes. Leaves numerous, often ascending or subap- 
Pressed, 4’-8’ long, 2’—-4’ wide, the villous pubescent leafstalks downy- 
tomentose on the upper side. Leaflets 34 pairs or 5—6 pairs on the 
Narrower and longer-petioled lower leaves, often directed sharply 
forward, strongly veined, becoming thickish and rugose, dark green 
above and more or less hispidulous or scabrous, at least near the 
€dges, the margins finely ciliolate, below paler and pubescent (soft- 
