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LONICERA FLAVA SlITlS. 



This rare species was found by Mr. Wilson and myself in 

 several localities in the northern part of the state. I collected it 

 on Stone Mountain (no. 178), Kennesaw Mountain (no. 216), and 



>on Mountain (no. 330); and Mr. Wilson collected it on the 

 Chattoogata Mountains (no. 75). The altitudes of all these 

 stations are between 1250 and 1400 ft. 



Vernonia flaccidifolia Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 25 : 144. 1898 



We found this species quite frequent in Whitfield and Walker 

 counties, adjoining Catoosa, in where Dr. Small discovered it in 

 1895. Mr. Wilson collected it near Dalton (no. 86) and on Pigeon 

 Mountain (no. 174). It grows on various formations, ranging 

 from Chickamauga (Lower Silurian) to Coal Measures (Carbo- 

 niferous), and ascends to 2000 ft. altitude on Pigeon Mountain. 



Lacinaria Boykinii (T. & G.) Kuntze 



This species was collected, apparently for the first time since 

 it was described, by me on the high sandy bank of the Flint 

 River in Sumter county, September 10 (no. 635). The original 

 specimens were collected by Dr. Boykin in the vicinity of Colum- 

 bus in the early part of the nineteenth century. 



The circumstances under which I found it lead me to suspect 



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that it is a hybrid between L. elegans and L. tcnuifolia, both of 

 which grew in abundance in intimate association with it. Al- 

 though these two species are not very similar, yet L. Boykimi 

 appears intermediate between them in all its characters, such as 

 position of leaves, length of peduncles, size and color of involucral 

 bracts, plumosity of pappus, and color of corollas (white in elegans 

 and purple in tenuifolia). The specimens of L. Boykinii were 

 much less abundant than those of either of the other species, and 

 I did not find it at any distance from them. My first impression 

 that it was an undescribed hybrid was so strong that it was a 

 surprise to me to find after my return that my specimens were re- 

 ferable to a described species. They have been compared with 

 the type of Boykinii in the Torrey Herbarium. I have no means 

 of knowing whether L. Boykinii is associated with the same two 

 species elsewhere, as I know of no other living botanist who has 



