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seem to be altogether probable that it is to be found there late 
in the season. 
Specimens from Chappaquiddick Island, Marthas Vineyard, 
Oct. 5, 1912, have been deposited as the type in the herbarium of 
the New York Botanical Garden named Hypopitys insignata sp. 
nov. 
ERICACEAE 
AZALEA VISCOSA L. 
Everywhere in swamps and bogs. First flowers June 17, 1910, 
June 18, 1908; mostly not yet in bloom June 17, 1912, generally 
in bloom July 10; some flowers in mid-September, 1907. 
In a number of instances it was observed that corollas with 
long tube and short limb were pure white and that those with 
shorter tube and broad limb were often deeply tinged with pink. 
The pink-flowered shrubs seemed to be, as a rule, earlier flowering 
and, at least in the most pronounced examples, had rather coarsely 
bristly-ciliate pedicels, and acute leaves, somewhat pale beneath, 
thus corresponding with Pursh’s description of his Azalea hispida. 
AZALEA NITIDA Pursh. 
Occasional or frequent in bogs and wet thickets; Polpis, 
Quaise, Tom Never’s swamp, below the “Cliff.” In full flower 
Aug. 4, 1906. ‘Leaves numerous and crowded, small, 2-2.5 cm. 
long and 5~10 mm. wide, coriaceous and very acute, dark green 
and shining on both sides, especially above. A very different 
shrub in conformation and aspect from the more openly branched 
and larger leaved A. viscosa, yet quite obviously intergrading 
with it. 
* AZALEA GLAUCA Lam. Encyc. 1: 340. 1783. 
Frequent; Quaise, Polpis, Tom Never’s Swamp, Millbrook 
Swamp, Trot’s Swamp. A beautiful and always strikingly indi- 
vidualized shrub. Neither on Nantucket nor on Long Island 
have I seen any convincing evidence that it blends with A. viscosa, 
although it may well be true that interbreeding tends to keep it 
within the organic influence of that species. 
KALMIA LATIFOLIA L. 
Mrs. Owen’s catalogue preserves the record of “a single dwarf 
specimen not more than a foot high’’ found by Mr. Dame on 
the plains opposite Bloomingdale. 
