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B. Van Gorder). Specimens have been examined from all three localities. The 

 recorded range of the plant is "Peat bogs, Maine to Penn., Minn., and north- 

 ward." 



Brachychata cordata Torr. and (iray. Among the forms that have come into 

 the Indiana flora from the South the above is one of the mo-t interesting. Its 

 tjtation is in Jefterson County, especially at C'lifty Falls. The station is one of 

 the remarkable ones in the State, because of the number of rare forms there 

 found, Sidlivantia Ohionis Torr. and Gray, being perhaps the most noteworthy if 

 Ave except Brachychceta. 



The manual range of the plant is as follows: "Wooded hills, S. Ind. and 

 E. Ky. to N. Ga." In the Synoptical Flora, p. 161, the range is given as follows: 

 ^'Open woods, etc., W. North Car. and E. Ky. to upper part of Ga." The plant 

 was apparently first collected by Rafinesque, by whom it was described as Sohdago 

 sphacekita, Raf. Ann. Nat. (1820), p. 14. 



In Short's Supplement to the Catalogue of the Plants of Kentucky it is de- 

 scribed as Solidago cordata Short. 



In DeCandoUe's Prodromus, V. 313, it appears as Brachyris ovati/olia DC, 

 with the range "in agro Kentuckensi ad ripas jiuminum legit, cl. Rafinesque. * * 

 Species, distinctissima." 



Additional localities are as follows: 



Flora of West Virginia C. F. Millspaugh. P. 382. — "Fayette County, near 

 Nuttalsburg, plentiful." 



Flora of Southern United States. A. W. Chapman, 2d edition. P. 213, entered 

 as Solidago cordata Short. " Mountains of Georgia and North Carolina and north- 

 ward." 



Botany of Southern States. John Darby. P. 370—" North Carolina and North- 

 ern Georgia." 



^■1 Sketch of Botany of So^lth Carolina and Georgia. Stephen Elliott. Vol. II 

 (1824), which includes Solidago, does not distinguish the form. 



Tennessee Flora. August Gattinger (1887). P. 51 — Records as occurring over 

 the whole State. 



The specimens in the Gray Herbarium only include four sheets, all being 

 from the South. They are as follows : 



Solidago co'data (n. sp.) Short. Cliffs of Kentucky River. C. W. Short, M. 

 D., Lexington, Ky. This is the type specimen of Brachyrhata cordata Torr. and 

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