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gave support to this view, more strongly held than expressed, had 
been found in an afternoon’s visit to Lookout Mountain, Tennes- 
see, on June 21, 1894, duringa short delay of the train on the way 
up the mountain. Since that time more complete material has 
come to hand which shows that the plant is entirely distinct from 
both Sanicula Marylandica L. and Sanicula Canadensis L., its nearest 
allies, with either one of which, however, it might easily be con- 
fused by anyone not possessing a true understanding of those 
species. 
From the specimens newly in hand it appears that a year be- 
fore the Lookout Mountain plant was discovered, Dr. John K. 
Small had collected precisely the same thing at the base of Little 
Stone Mountain in middle Georgia, and it now gives me pleasure 
to connect Dr. Small’s name with this new species, more especially 
since he himself would doubtless have shortly distinguished it had 
it not been described here. 
It seems that a still earlier collection of the plant was made by 
Mr. S. M. Bain at Jackson, Tenn., in May, 1892 (« No. 302, Plantae 
Tennessei Occidentalis”). This specimen, although differing 
somewhat from all the others, is unquestionably to be referred to 
the same species. The east Tennessee and Georgia plants are 
closely matched by specimens collected by Mr. George V. Nash in 
August, 1895, at Tallahassee, Florida, the southernmost point at 
which the plant has been found. 
SANICULA SMALLII n. sp. 
Root perennial, or possibly biennial ; stem 1 14°—2° tall, smooth, 
somewhat striate, simple below, or with one lateral branch, above 
forking into two widely spreading or ascending naked branches 
sometimes 8’ long, each bearing an umbel of 2-6 rays; lateral 
branch sometimes 12/ long, like the stem supporting two slen- 
der ray-like umbel-bearing branches; stem-leaves 3-4 up to the 
involucral pair, slender-petioled, two of them sub-basal on pe- 
tioles 4’-6/ long; leaf-blades rather small, mostly 3/-4’ wide and 
2’3’ long, sub-coriaceous, dull green, paler on the lower surface 
and often above along the veins, which are distinctly in relief, 
reniform in general outline with a deep or shallow sinus, 3-divided 
or nearly 3-foliolate, the segments close together, the lateral pair =. 
deeply cleft or rarely parted; segments obovate or the lateral pair 
broadly rhomboid, dentate-serrate with short-aculeate teeth, Or : 
slightly incised, often cleft into three short lobes at the obtuse 
