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times as long as the leaf-blade, slightly pubescent; 
bracts reniform; peduncles not longer than the calyx; 
calyx urceolate, 1.5-2.5cm long, dark green without, 
purple within, the seements broadly ovate; the large oval 
stigma at the base of the style, the slender projection 
deeply 2-cleft. 
West Florida. A species recently described by Dr. 
Small from Dr. Chapman’s collection. 
(a) Leaf-blades, or some of them, halbert-shaped at base; the projec- 
tion of the style cleft to the top of the large ovate stigma; anthers 
short-pointed. 
6. ASARUM ARIFOLIUM Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:279. © 
Asarum Virginicum Walt., Fl. 143. 
Leaf-blade 6-10cm long, 5-12cm wide, ovate or trian- 
gular in outline, halbert-shaped, or rarely round-cordate 
at base, rounded or pointed at the apex; petiole short or 
long; calyx from 1.5-2.3cm long, urceolate, rounded at 
base, much contracted at the throat, the triangular lobes 
spreading, firm in texture, greenish-purple without, pur- 
ple-brown within; stigma large, ovate, at the base of the 
stvle, the prolongation cleft to the top of the stigma. 
Virginia to southern Georgia and Alabama. Common 
throughout its distribution. Extends in the Carolinas 
from the sea level to an altitude of about 600m.  Prob- 
ably does not occur in the mountains of Virginia, all 
specimens which I have seen from there being referable 
to the next. A very variable species both in habit and 
form. 
7. ASARUM RuTuHi, W. W. Ashe, Contrib. from Herb. 
_No. t. (1897). 
Leat-blades halbert-shaped, usually broader than long, 
commonly larger than in the preceding, deep green; calyx 
cylindro-ovate, rounded and larger at the base, gradually 
narrowed toward the mouth, 2.5-3cm long, 1-1.2cm wide, 
the rounded lobes barely 5mm wide at base, not spread- 
ing, purplish-green without, duller within; stigmas and 
styles similar to those of the preceding, 
