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capsula glabrata oblonga. — Balsam Mountain, seven miles southwest 

 of Webster, .Jackson County, North Carolina, coll. George R. Vasey, 

 June 3, 1878, in blossom. The American Azaleas previously known 

 consist of one aberrant species, R. Rhodora, and of a well-marked 

 group (to which R. Ponticum also belongs) characterized by a long- 

 tubed funnel-form corolla and long exserted stamens and style. But 

 the East Asiatic species of the same true Azalea subgenus have cam- 

 panulate or rotate-campanulate corollas, and some of them very decid- 

 uous per idee to the separate flower-buds. This most interesting new 

 6pecies is one of that group, and it thus adds another to the now 

 very numerous cases of remarkable relationship between the Chino- 

 Japanese and the Alleghanian floras. It most resembles R. Albrechti, 

 a subalpine species of Japan ; but is pentandrous, smoother, not at 

 all setose, smaller-flowered, the corolla (about an inch long) glabrous 

 within as well as without ; and the leaves are not obovate or so 

 cuneate at base. As this interesting accession to our flora is one of 

 the fruits of a botanical tour recently made by Mr. George R. Vasey, 

 sou of Dr. Vasey, the botanist of the Agricultural Department, who 

 recognized its novelty and placed a specimen in my hands, I seize 

 the opportunity of commemorating the name of Vasey in connection 

 with the noble genus Rhododendron. 



Phacelia (Microgenetes) Coopers. P. bicolori et P. gymno- 

 cladee proxima, pube deusa viscida subcinerea ; foliis oblongis obtusis 

 crenato-subpinnatifidis petiolo subaequilongis ; floribus plerisque ses- 

 silibus densius spicatis ; corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformi calycis lobis 

 *2-3-plo longiore, limbo casruleo seu violaceo, tubo fauceque angustis 

 flavis, appendicibus angustis a filamento liberis ; ovulis 7-8. — Cali- 

 fornia, in the Santa Inez Mountains, Santa Barbara Co., Mrs. Ellwood 

 Cooper. This is the only species of the Microgenetes section found 

 west of the Sierra Nevada. The seeds in the specimen, although not 

 mature, indistinctly show the transverse corrugations. The corolla is 

 nearly half an inch long, and is even more tubular than that of P. 

 bicclor / the filaments are attached almost to its base and barely con- 

 nected with the very base of the narrow plicae. 



Breweria grandifeora. Sericeo-puberula ; caulibus e radice 

 tuberosa procumbentibus ; foliis brevissime petiolatis late ovalibus 

 subaequaliter penniveniis, majoribus (sesquipollicaribus) apice nunc 

 utrinque retusis ; pedunculis unifloris folio brevioribus ; sepalis lato- 

 lanceolatis acutiusculis, 2 exterioribus paullo brevioribus ; corolla 

 caerulea (tripollicari !) infundibuliformi tubo extus villosulo ; stylis 

 capillaribus a basi fere discretis ; stigmatibus majusculis globosis; 

 vol. xv. (n.s. vii.) 4 



