﻿Two Southern Plants. 



By Thomas H. Kearney, Jr. 



MOXOTROPSI.S ODORATA Ell. 



This little-known and attractive plant has been noted hereto- 

 fore only at a few scattered localities east of the Alleshanies. I 



am now able to report a station for the species on the western 

 slope of the Alleghanies, at Wolf Creek Station, Cocke County, 

 Tennessee. While stopping at Wolf Creek last summer a " small 

 leafless plant with the odor of violets" was described to me as 

 growing in a ravine on the farm of my host, Mr. Allen, which I 

 fancied could be none other than the Monotropsis. I requested 

 that specimens be sent me when their flowering time should ar- 

 rive, and to-day, April 6th, a number of plants reached me in ex- 

 cellent condition. The species has also been reported from 

 Rugby, Morgan county, Tennessee, on the Cumberland plateau, 

 a considerable westward extension of its range. 



Stylosanthes riparia Kearney, Bull. Torr. Eot. Club, 24 : 5 6 5- 



1894 



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Dr. Charles Mohr sends me excellent specimens of this Stylos- 

 anfkes collected at Auburn, Alabama, by Profs. Earle and Baker 

 (129), July 8, 1897. They differ from the type in the some- 

 what longer and more abundant pubescence of the stems ; in the 

 longer (by .5-1 mm.) secondary bract and prophyllum, the latter 

 cleft very nearly to the base ; and in the usually somewhat longer 

 lowest calyx-tooth. Occasionally the prophyllum of the lowest 



flower of the inflorescence is 



every inflor- 



escence examined the other prophylla are constantly deeply cleft- 



No other differences were detected. 



ipari 



the Biltmore Herbarium by specimens from Delaware,! eastern 

 North Carolina and Florida, all of them showing the deep cleft in 

 the prophyllum, except that from Delaware, in which the prophyl- 

 lum is not constantly cleft. 



In the paper cited the following errata are to be corrected: P. 5 6 7> in 



the 



twenty-third line read " stems' ' instead of ''culms;" p. 569, under Rhododendron 

 maximum, read " 1.5 m.,'' instead of » 1.5 mm. ;" p. 570, under Vaccinium mehvio- 

 carfium, read " 14 dm.," instead of "4 dm." 



f C D. Beadle ; Hot. Gaz. 25 : 279. 15 Ap. 1898. 



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