OF GEORGIA DURING THE SEASON OF 1902 27 
MARSHALLIA RAMOSA Beadle & Boynton, Biltmore Bot. 
Stud. 1: 8. f/. 2. Igo! 
In dry pine-barrens and at bases of imperfectly developed 
sand-hills in Johnson county near Wrightsville. In flower June 
16 (vo. 1342). This seems to be the second collection made of 
this species. Its corollas are decidedly paler than those of the 
common species, JZ. graminifolia, being nearly white. 
MESADENIA SULCATA (Fernald) Small (Cacalia sulcata Fernald) 
Collected in wet woods about a mile east of Killen, Clay 
County, October 29 (70. 7792), also seen in similar places in Ran- 
dolph County south of Cuthbert. The affinity of this species 
with Cacalia ovata Ell. (which may not be the same as C. ovata 
Walt.), to which Mr. Fernald compared it, is rather remote. It 
is much more closely related to JZ. tuderosa (Nutt.) Britton and 
M. Floridana (Gray) Greene. These three species, suderosa, sul- 
cata and Floridana, differing from each other principally in range, 
habitat and shape of leaves, form a small group characterized by 
grooved or sharply angled stems, plantain-like leaves green on 
both sides and tapering at the base, and especially by the winged 
keels of the involucral bracts. This latter character was over- 
looked by the authors of the two latter species and is very rarely 
mentioned in descriptions, being inconspicuous in dried specimens. 
The wings are usually 1-2 mm. broad. 
A specimen collected by A. H. Curtiss on ‘ Borders of 
swamps, Walton County, Florida,” in September, probably many 
years ago (zo. 1560, distributed as Cacalia Floridana), is Mesa- 
denia sulcata. In the Biltmore Herbarium there are specimens of 
it collected at different points in the same county, August I, 1899, 
and September 26, 1900. 
COLLEGE Point, N. Y. 
