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Cocke County, and there exhibit a wide difference in habitat and 
period of flowering. JV. /atfolium was collected in May, 1893, 
growing in deep, rich, moist woods along a mountain brook, and 
was then in full flower. In September, 1897,1 sought for it in 
the same place, but not a vestige was to be found. At that time, 
however, MZ. /ineare was in full flower, growing on dry soil on the 
top of Brushy Mountain. 
VipurNum cassinotEs L. Sp. Pl. Ed. 2, 384. 1763. 
Along a brooklet near the summit of Max Patch Mountain, 
(no. 730). The specimens are hardly typical, but differ from V. 
nudum VL. in their distinctly crenulate dentate leaves with dull 
upper surface and peduncles distinctly shorter than the cyme. 
The same form grows on the summit of Thunderhead, Blount 
County (alt. about 2000 m.), where it was collected by the writer 
in June, 1891. 
SYMPHORICARPOS RACEMOSUS Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 107. 1803. 
In waste-ground near a house at Lemon’s Gap, Cocke County, 
where a large patch of it is well established and was loaded with 
its white fruit on Sept. 8 (no. 733). 
SoLIpAGO ARGUTA CAROLINIANA A. Gray. Syn. Fl. N. Am. 1: 
Part 2,155. 1884. 
Numerous specimens of a form of S. arguta, probably refer- 
able to this variety, collected near Wolf Creek in August (nos. 
759, 760) are entirely destitute of rays. 
Aster Curtis Torr. & Gray, Fl.N. Am. 2: 110. 1841-43. 
This beautiful plant is the most common As¢er near Lemon’s 
Gap, at an elevation of about 1000 m., beginning to flower about 
the last week in August. It varies from about 5 dm. high, with 
slender, unbranched stems bearing two or three heads, to a tall, 
stout, much-branched plant 15 dm. high, bearing as many as 150 
heads. 
Gnapuatium Hetier! Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 20: 280. 1893. 
dn ve illsi i Ameri- 
On very dry hillsides, with Gyrostachys simplex, Buchnera 
cana, Silphium compositum, etc., near Wolf Creek, collected Sep- 
