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likewise frequent about Wolf Creek, but is confined to rather dry 
hillside woods. 
VACCINIUM MELANOCARPUM C. Mohr, n. sp. 
Vaccinium stamineum melanocarpum C. Mohr, Bull. Torr. Club, 
42: 25. 1897. 
At the summit of Bluff Mountain on the Tennessee-North 
Carolina line just south of the French Broad River, I collected 
during the past season (no. 811) specimens of a Vaccinium in young 
fruit, which Dr. Mohr identifies as his V. melanocarpum. The 
Tennessee plant differs from typical Alabama specimens, however, 
in its shorter, less pointed and thicker leaves with more promi- 
nent and strongly reticulated veins, and in its larger bracts. It is 
a shrub some 4 dm. high, with gnarled, ascending branches, and 
grows on the open summit of the mountain, accompanied by such 
plantsas Prunus Pennsylvanicaand Sambucus pubens. So different 
is tts aspect from that of /. stamineum that it did not occur to me 
at first that it was related to that species. 
VACCINIUM HIRSUTUM Buckley, Am. Journ. Sci. 45: 175. 1843. 
Dr. Small, in a recent number of the BULLETIN,* reported his 
find of this little-known species at Tallulah Falls, Georgia, as 
“the first collection since the original discovery by Buckley.” 
But flowering specimens were secured in June, 1891, in the Cade’s 
Cove Mountains of Blount County, Tennessee, by Prof. A. Ruth 
and the writer. There it grew in some quantity on the dry south 
slope of the ridge, along with Bapiisia tinctoria, Sericocarpus solida- 
gineus, etc. Dr. Gattinger, in his catalogue,} reports this plant as 
occurring in the “ High Mountains of East Tennessee.” 
LysImacuiA Fraser Duby; DC. Prodr. 8: G5. 1844 
Found at two or three points along the French Broad River 
near Wolf Creek (no. 829). About one mile above Wolf Creek 
quite a number of plants were discovered, growing in a tangled 
undergrowth of Kudus villosus Ait., and Vitis rotundifolia Michx., 
on the river-bank. Many of the plants measured 1.5 dm. in height. 
* Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 64. 1897. 
+ Tennessee Flora 61. 1887. 
