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I believe that this southern plant is specifically dififerent from 

 P. Caroliniana, Michx. As pointed out by Hooker, the stam- 

 inodia are very slender and exceed the anther-bearing stamens; 

 the flowers and leaves are usually larger ; Hooker further remarks 

 that these characters are retained in cultivation. I have never seen 

 elongated staminodia in our common northern plant, and am very 

 familiar with it in the wild state. The identity of DeCandolle's 

 and Hooker's plants appears to be satisfactorily established. 

 We have it from North Carolina, (Rugel, Dr. Gray) Florida, 

 (Chapman). DeCandolle's plant came from the Cherokee country, 

 and Hooker's from Louisiana. There may be some doubt as 

 to whether this, or what we are calling Caroliitiana, is really the 

 plant of Michaux, because the specimen of it is missing in his 

 herbarium at Paris. 



Ammannia Koehnei, n. sp. Aiiniiaiiia hunt His, fi. T. & G. 

 Fl. N. A. i. 480 (1840). 



Erect, glabrous, 6'-2o' high, at length freely branching. 

 Leaves obovate, oblonceolate, or somewhat spatulate, obtuse or 

 obtusish at the apex, the upper ones clasping and more or less 

 auriculate at the base, the lower narrowed and sessile, or taper- 

 ing into a short petiole ; flowers 1-3 together in the axils, sessile; 

 petals purple ? fugacious ; stamens very short, not exserted ; 

 style very short ; capsule enclosed by the calyx. 



In swamps, Hackensack marshes, New Jersey (Torrey ; 

 Leggett) to Florida. Named in honor of the distinguished 

 monographer of the Lythrariese, Dr: E. Koehne, of Berlin. The 

 species cannot be referred to A. latifolia, L,, which has auricu- 

 late, linear-lanceolate leaves and no petals. 



Epilobiuiii liucarc, Muhl. Cat. 39 (18 13). 



My remarks on this species in reviewing Professor Trelease's 

 recent Revision of the North American Epilobia (BULLETIN, 

 this volume, p. 226), where I suggested that the name E. oligaii- 

 tJuiin, Michx. (1803) should have been taken for it, are quite 

 wide of the mark, for the original in Michaux's Herbarium is E. 

 palnstrc, L., as determined there by Haussknecht. 



Epilobiiiin glaudiilosuiii, Lehm. 



Professor Trelease included this species in his treatment of 

 the East American members of the genus in the sixth edition of 

 Gray's Manual, but in his Revision, published subsequently, he 



