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Boiss.), but is readily distinguished by its more slender habit, the’ 
linear leaf-blades, the oblong acute bracts which subtend the flow- 
ers, and the ovate calyx-segments. 
GENTIANA QUINQUEFOLIA L, Sp. Pl. 230. 1753. 
Mr. A. M. Huger has sent me specimens of this gentian from 
the vicinity of Waynesville, North Carolina, noting that the plants 
often produce a prodigious number of flowers, he having counted 
over three hundred and sixty on some specimens. He has also 
observed the extensive altitudinal range of the species, recording 
that it grows from the “bottoms” to “balds,” in this case from 
about 300 meters to nearly 1500 meters. I have noticed the same 
occurrence in northern Georgia. 
IPOMOEA BARBIGERA Sweet, Brit. Fl: Gard. p/. 86. 1818. 
Dr. Mohr has lately published an interesting note on this 
species in this journal ;* the plant has apparently not been col- 
lected many times since its discovery and it would be desirable 
to know more of its geographic range. Prof. Carl F. Baker has 
sent me specimens collected near Auburn, Alabama, in the fall 
of 18096. : 
Ipomoga PurPuREA (L.) Roth, Bot. Abh. 27. 1787. 
Prof. Baker has also sent me this morning glory, collected 
near Auburn, Alabama, thus giving us a station between the At- 
lantic States and Texas; this break in its range is indicated in 
the Synoptical Flora.t 
MENTHA RoTUNDIFOLIA (L.) Huds. Fl. Angl. 221. 1762. 
Only one station in the Southern States, namely, “ near Wil- 
mington, North Carolina,” has been recorded for this mint. How- 
ever the species is spreading; in 1891 Miss K. A. Taylor 
collected specimens in a wet meadow near Columbia, South 
Carolina, and in 1895 I found it abundant near Trader's Hill in 
southeastern Georgia. 
* Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 26. 
¢ Syn. FL N. A. 2: 210. 
¢ Chapm. Fi. S, St. Ed. 2. 313. 
