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strongly curved. The general aspect of S. 7paria is much more 
suggestive of that of a 77folium than in the case with S.. diflora. 
In the terminology of the above description I have followed 
that of Taubert’s excellent Monographie der Gattung Stylosanthes* 
and have adopted his ingenious view of the morphology of the | 
rather complicated inflorescence. In his generic description (p. 4). 
Dr. Taubert distinguishes the lower primary bracts from foliage 
leaves by the absence of lateral leaflets, and notes no exception. 
In S. riparia the lowest bract, even when flower-bearing, is occa- 
sionally trifoliate. In one case I found only one of the lateral 
leaflets present. 
ILex Beapier W. W. Ashe; Coult. Bot. Gaz. 24: 377. 1897. 
Collected in flower near Wolf Creek in May, 1893, and in 
fruit during the past season (633, 633%). Also on Chilhowee 
Mountain, Blount County, in June, 1893. Seems to be widely 
distributed and abundant at low elevations in the mountains of 
East Tennessee. 
Mr. Ashe rightly segregates this plant from J. mcnticola mollis 
(A. Gray) Britton,} but does not point out the characters by which 
his species can readily be distinguished. Jer mollis A. Grayt 
must be regarded as based upon the northern plant, although 
Gray confused with it the southern species, //ex Beadlei, however, 
does not apparently extend into the region covered by Gray’s 
Manual. Hence we must regard as the type of /. mollis the plant 
of the Pennsylvania mountains, which, so far as herbarium speci- 
mens show, is a mere pubescent variety of J. monticola A. Gray. 
This, too, may range southward along the higher mountains with 
the smooth form of J. monticola, but is not to be mistaken for /. 
Beadle. The latter species, as I know it, is found only on the 
lower hills or down near the river-banks, always in rather dry soil, 
*Verhand. Bot. Ver. Prov, Brandenb. 23: 1-34. 1891.—S. hamata (L.) 
‘Faubert is here cited (p. 23) as occurring in Tennessee (no. 609 of A. H. Curtiss’ 
distribution). As it did not seem likely that this almost strictly tropical plant should 
be found so far north and nowhere in the intervening region, I made inquiry of Dr. 
Robinson, who informs me that two species of Stylosanthes collected by Curtiss are 
deposited in the Gray Herbarium, one (no. 609) being typical S. difora from ‘Ten- 
nessee, while the other (no. 609*) is S. Aamata from Umbrella Key, South Florida. 
¢ Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 217. 1894. 
} Man. Ed. 5, 306, 1867. 
