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often growing with Castanea pumila Mill. It is distinguished from 
any form of /. monticola by its smaller size (usually about 2 m. high); 
and smaller leaves which are proportionately broader, shorter, 
and more abruptly pointed, thicker, firmer in texture, almost 
tomentose beneath, and of a characteristic light, almost yellow- 
green color. /. monticola, as it occurs in East Tennessee, prefers 
a rich, comparatively moist soil in deep, shady ravines at higher 
elevations (1000-2000 m.), where it usually grows as a small tree 
with slender trunk some 5~7 m. high, and thin, long-pointed 
leaves of a fine, deep green. It is often accompanied by such 
plants as Viburnum alnifolium, Cornus alternifolia, etc. The pubes- 
cence on the under surface of the leaf in all specimens of /. sont- 
cola mollis that I have seen is never so dense as is constantly the 
case in J. Beadlet. 
Evonymus AMERicanus L. Sp. Pl. 197. °1753. 
Specimens collected along the French Broad, near Wolf Creek 
(no. 636) have broadly ovate leaves not exceeding 3.5 cm. in length, 
and mostly about 2 cm. wide. The plants were erect and some 12-15 
dm. high, however, and none of the leaves were at all obovate. 
VIOLA EMARGINATA (Nutt.) Le Conte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 142. 
1825. 
Specimens of an extreme form of this species, with deeply cut 
leaves, were obtained near Wolf Creek. I am not aware that this 
violet has been heretofore reported as belonging to the Southern 
Flora. 
RHODODENDRON MAXIMUM L, Sp. Pl. 392. 1753. 
Growing among rocks at the summit of Bluff mountain is a 
peculiar form, only some 1.5 mm. high, with small leaves about 
1 dm. long and 2 cm. wide, the margins inclined to be involute 
{in the living plant) and the under surface pale brown. 
LrucoTHoE RACcEMoSA (L.) A. Gray Man. Ed. 2, 252. 1856. 
As far as I know this shrub of the low country swamps has not 
been reported from the mountain region of the Southern States. 
I found it last season on the sandy banks of the French Broad 
River near Wolf Creek (no. 814) and have also collected it along 
the Emory in Roane County. L. recurva (Buckley) A. Gray is 
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