571 
STEIRONEMA ‘TONSUM (Wood) Bicknell; Britton & Brown, Ill. FI. 
N.U.S. 2: 590. 1897. 
S. intermedium Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club, 21: 263. 1894. 
Specimens collected on the banks of the French Broad River 
near Wolf Creek, Sept. 1 (no. 830), growing in shaded sandy soil, 
depart from the type of .S. zutermedium not only in habitat but in 
having the petioles sparsely ciliate their entire length with short 
lax hairs. Nevertheless they are unmistakably 5S. tonsum, having 
the slender habit, smaller leaves with less conspicuous veins, much 
reduced upper leaves which give the inflorescence the aspect of a 
bracted panicle, comparatively longer peduncles, and sare Stes 
nearly twice as long as the capsule. 
STEIRONEMA TONSUM SIMPLEX MN. Var. 
Stems simple, 2-3 dm. high, slender ; petioles short, not more 
than 15 mm. in length, slender, naked except at the base where a 
few ciliae occur; leaf-blades 1-4 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, 
broad ovate, the lowest very small and orbicular, subcordate at 
base, rather abruptly pointed at apex, thin and bright green; in- 
florescence a four or five-flowered leafy terminal panicle, oc- 
casionally with scattered peduncles from the axils of the upper 
foliage leaves; calyx-lobes only slightly exceeding the mature 
capsule (in one case merely equalling it). 
A few plants collected on the shaded margin of a mountain- 
brook near Wolf Creek (no. 831), growing: in rather moist, sandy 
soil, accompanied by Haédenaria clavellata (Michx.) Spreng. 
PERILLA FRUTESCENS (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr .Club, 5: 277. 1894. 
Abundant about dwellings at Wolf Creek (no. 874). It was 
formerly cultivated as a foliage plant, but is now thoroughly nat- 
uralized and is spreading rapidly. In this form the leaves are al- 
ways purple underneath, but it does not agree with Bentham’s 
characterization of P. ocimoides crispa* (P. frutescens Nankinensis 
(Lour.) Britton), in that the leaf margins are neither crisped nor 
fimbriate-lacerate. 
SCUTELLARIA VENOSA Nn. Sp. 
Scutellaria saxatilis pilosior Benth.; DC, Prodr. 12: 424. 1848? 
"SDC. Prodr. 12: 164. 1848. s 
