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large, the obtuse bracts spatulate or lanceolate, entire, serrulate or 
dentate, 2-4 times the length of the head (in one case 5 cm. long); 
corolla 4 mm. long, mostly 4-lobed, pale greenish-yellow, narrowly 
funnelform, tapering gradually to the base; stamens and style in- 
cluded ; achenes rather large (body 7-9 mm. long by 3 mm. broad), 
evenly cuneate, very flat, scarcely carinate, glabrous and smooth 
except the margin on which the retrorse hairs extend to the base, 
dark greenish-yellow and often minutely dark dotted, flat or con- 
vex at the summit; awns commonly three (two long and one 
shorter), long, straight and stout (4-34 length of achene), equal- 
ing or longer than the corolla. 
Eastern States, westward to Illinois. 
The stem and more slender branches of B. connataare purplish, 
leaves more slenderly petioled, often 3-parted, more acuminate and 
darker green; heads smaller, bracts of the involucre fewer, twice 
the length of the heads or less, narrower; corolla deep orange 
yellow, abruptly contracted below the middle and commonly 5- 
cleft; stamens often exserted; achenes smaller, darker, often 
strongly carinate, commonly hairy and tuberculate, margins with 
mixed upwardly and downwardly directed or entirely erect hairs; 
awns 2-4, shorter (1/—1% length of achene). 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 
Shrubs and Trees of the Southern States.—ll. 
By Joun K. SMALL, 
I. New anp Notewortuy SPECIES. 
Tsuca Carotintana Engelm. Coult. Bot. Gaz. 6: 223. 1881. 
Last fall I received specimens of this very ornamental hemlock 
from two new localities in North Carolina. Mr. A. M. Huger 
found groves of it at Banner’s Elk, Watauga County, at an eleva- 
tion of 1300 meters and in the Linville Gorge, Burke County, at 
about 575 meters above sea-level, the latter station, together with 
that at Tallulah Falls, Georgia, and the New River, Virginia, rep- 
resenting the lowest altitudes at which the species has been found. 
HIcorta GLABRA (Mill.) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 15 : 284. 1888. 
Among the many unique things that Stone Mountain affords 
are some dwarf hickory trees, usually less than two meters in 
height, bearing quite an abundance of fruit. 
