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me at different times or for permission to examine their 
material or material placed under their care. 
SYNOPTICAL ARRANGEMENT OF GLABROUS-LEAVED 
SPECIES. 
Annual leaf solitary, glabrous, thick, the single flower from the axil 
of the ovate or reniform subtending bract; calyx glabrous without; the 
very short epigeal erect or ascending rootstock several times dichoto- 
mously forked; roots clustered, thick, numerous, fleshy; anthers oblong- 
linear, sessile or nearly so, the filaments not prolonged; the 6 thick di- 
vergent styles usually 2-forked or notched, bearing the extrose raised 
stigma below the summit. 
(a.) Leaves round-cordate ‘at base; the styles not cleft to the top of 
the stigma; anthers pointless. (These species except the last consti- 
tute the dsarum lirginicnm of Linneus.) 
(b.) The stout prolongation of style barely notched, much wider than 
the small orbicular stigma. 
(c.) Calyx cylindro-campanulate, somewhat contracted at the throat. 
2. ASARUM MACRANTHUM (Shuttlw.) Small, Mem. 
seorr, © 1., 5:136. 
Flomolropa Macranthum Shuttlw.; Small Mem. Torr. 
Cl., 4:150, as synonym. 
Asarum Virginicum var. grandiflorum, Mx. in D. C. 
Prodr. 15:426. 
2. ASARUM MINUS W. W. Ashe, Contrib. from Herb. 
me (1897). . 
Leaves as in the above but rarely orbicular; tube of 
calyx cylindro-campanulate, about lcm wide, about the 
same length, the very short lobes spreading; peduncle as 
long as the flower, the large bract pointed; projection of 
the style very short; the seed oblong. 
North and South Carolina and Tennessee. Local. In 
North Carolina it occurs as low as 150m above sea level. 
Type locality: Chapel Hill, N. C. 
(c) Calyx Campanulate or oblong-campanulate, not 
contracted at the throat. 
3. ASARUM HETEROPHYLLUM, W. W. Ashe, Contrib. 
from Herb. No. 1. (1897). 
Leaf-blades orbicular, ovate or triangular in outline, 
cordate at base (or occasionally almost hastate), about 
