80 Journal of the Mitchell Society ^October 



plants averaged 1.1 times broader than long, while the flowers of the 

 nursery plant, were 1.4 times broader than long. The flowers of the 

 Table Rock plant were not to be distinguished from the nursery 

 plant, being open and broad, but the two Crowders Mountain plants 

 found in bloom had longer flowers like the Chapel Hill ones and were 

 almost exactly as long as broad, and Kings Mountain plants were 

 about the same. However, there is variation in the Chapel Hill 

 form in all points, and we found one plant here with very large fine 

 flowers with crimped margin in which the flowers were 5.7 cm. long 

 by 8 cm. broad or 1.4 times brooder than long, as in the mountain 

 form. 



As to the leaves, our local plants have leaves that average larger 

 and broader in proportion than the mountain ones. In herbarium 

 specimens from Caldwell and Mitchell Counties the leaves average 

 3.8 X 9.1 cm. or 2.4 times longer than broad. In the Chapel Hill 

 plants they average about 5.7-6 x 11 cm., or only 1.9 times longer 

 than broad. On one branch of a plant with very large leaves all the 

 leaves averaged 1.6 times longer than broad, the longest leaf being 

 8.4 X 14.8 cm. Leaves from collections made on our recent trip run 

 as follows : 



Crowders Mountain plant; leaves 1.8-2.1 times longer than broad. 

 Crowders Mountain plant: leaves 1.5-2 times longer than broad. 

 Kings Mountain plant: leaves 2.1-2.7 times longer than broad. 

 Kings Mountain plant: leaves 2.1-2.2 times longer than broad. 

 Kings Mountain plant: leaves 2-2.1 times longer than broad. 

 Kings Mountain plant: leaves 2-2.5 times longer than broad. 

 Kings Mountain plant: leaves 2.3-2.7 times longer than broad. 

 Table Rock plant: leaves 1.9-2 times longer than broad. 

 Table Rock plant: leaves 2-2.5 times longer than broad. 



The greenish dots in the flower throats vary in the Chapel Hill 

 plant from quite conspicuous to almost invisible. In flower color, 

 in habit, in pubescence of pod and young parts no diiferences of 

 consequence appear in the plants from different places. It would 

 seem then that while no constant difference appears between the plants 

 from various localities the mid-State form has flowers that average 

 longer in proportion and leaves that average broader in proportion 



