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palnstris and P. pectinata. In stature, diameter of stem, and 

 length of leaves it is like P. pectinata, but the leaves, except some 

 of the lowest, are not pinnatifid but merely toothed, a little more 

 deeply than in P. pa/nstris, however. It is too near Dr. Small's 

 recently described P. platycarpa * from South Florida to be de- 

 scribed as a new species, and before it could be described as a 

 new variety one would have to decide which of three species it 

 should be appended to. 



I have collected this problematic plant in the counties of Coffee 



(no. I4-2J) and Irwin (no. 22 1 o), and have seen it in two or three 



other counties. P. pains tris and P. pectinata both occur in the 



same region, but I have never seen them together, or either of 



them with the intermediate form ; so the latter cannot be regarded 

 as a hybrid. 



? Azalea arborescens Pursh 



On the morning of July 21, 1903, I collected in rich damp 

 woods at two stations in Randolph County a little north of Cuth- 

 bert a handsome Azalea with bright scarlet corollas (nos. 1894, 

 1897). Two days later I saw the same thing in similar situations 

 near Fort Gaines, and the following week Dr. Eugene A. Smith 

 found it in Barbour County, Alabama, a few miles farther west, 

 and asked me to identify it The late Rev. C. H. Hyde afterward 

 informed me that he had known the plant in the vicinity of Cuth- 

 bert for years, but had never been able to place it correctly. An 

 examination of specimens and literature after my return from the 

 field showed it to be nearest related to A. arborescens, an Alle- 

 ghanian species, from which it differs in its smaller size (being only 

 a shrub), the midrib of the leaves appressed-strigose beneath, 

 scarlet corollas, smaller calyx, and entire absence of glandular 

 pubescence among the flowers. It does not seem advisable to 

 describe it as new, however, until more differences are found. The 

 color of the corollas might lead one to associate it with A. ///tea L., 

 but that is a vernal species, flowering about three months earlier 

 (in the vicinity of Atlanta, the only region where I have seen it), 

 while the plant under consideration flowers later than any other 

 southeastern species. 



*BulI. N, Y. Bot. Card. 3 : 432. 1905. 



