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Ilex verticillata (L.) A. Gray, var. tenuifolia, Torr. 

 Fl. North. States, 338 (1824). This variety with thin, ob- 

 ovate leaves, glabrous, except a slight pubescence along the 

 midvein on the under surface, and with mucronate-tipped, ap- 

 pressed teeth, originally collected by Dr. Torrey in the cedar 

 swamp at New Durham, has recently been collected by Mr. W. 

 M. Whitfield at Mt. Washington, Berkshire Co., Mass. 



Var. padifolia (Willd.), T. and G. in S. Wats. Bibliog. 

 Index, i. 220, is distinguished from the type by its smaller, 

 thicker (almost coriaceous), broadly oval or nearly orbicular 

 leaves. The original specimen in Herb. Torrey came from Lake 

 Erie. The plant is common on the Pocono Plateau of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Professor Trelease, in his review of North American species 

 of Ilex in Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci. Vol. V., does not recog- 

 nize either of these varieties, but they appear to me certainly 

 well-marked enough to warrant consideration. 



SpiRtEA Virginiana, n. sp. A glabrous shrub, the branches 

 forming long wands, erect or reclining, i°— 4° long. Leaves ob- 

 long or slightly oblanceolate, thin, obtuse or short-pointed at the 

 apex, rounded or cuneate at the base, i]4'-^' long. 5"— 8" wide, 

 green above, pale beneath, entire or with a few low serrations in 

 the upper half; petioles 2" long ; pedicels and peduncles pale 

 and glaucous; flowers about 2" broad, in terminal compound 

 corymbs i'-3' across; calyx teeth 5, triangular, blunt, about the 

 length of the short-campanulate tube, distinctly glaucous; petals 

 5, white, ovate-orbicular, obtuse, stamens 15-20, persistent; 

 styles 5-6 ; follicles in the specimens examined 5-6, apparently 

 sterile, included in the persistent calyx. 



On damp rocks along the Monongahela River, Morgantown, 

 West Virginia, collected by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh in flower, June 

 20th, 1890, and in apparently imperfect fruit late in September. 

 Collected also by Mr. G. R. Vasey in the mountains of North 

 Carolina, 1878. 



Spircsa betides folia, Pall, and 5. eorymbosa, Raf , have much 

 longer follicles exserted beyond the calyx, broader, thicker and 

 dentate leaves, and are different in habit. Rafinesque published a 

 number of species in his New Flora, but none of them can apply 

 to this one. 



