102 PITTONIA. 
young pines in a mountain pasture’’ at Middlebury, Vermont; : 
also “on the west slope of Chapman Hill” in the same region, 
the péduncles of the apetalous flowers in these last sie 
horizontal, but scarcely hypogeous or fleshy-thickened. 
I shall next subjoin the segregate of my first and confused 
V. subviscosa. 
- V. nestoTicaA. With the habit and even the foliage of F. | 
subviscosa, but more pubescent, not subviscous: peduncles also — 
hirsute on one side or angle: calyx short, the 2 lower sepals oval 
or almost ovate, the others somewhat narrower, all very obtuse — 
their auricles broad and short (not in the least prominent, on the — 
contrary obscure), the whole margin hirsute-ciliate: corolla an 
inch broad or more, all the petals with broad rounded limb, the — 
lowest one a little shorter, scarcely narrower than the others, the — 
` laterals and also the lowest pubescent with more or less scattered : 
hairs: leaves in late summer state twice as long as in the early, 0n 
short slender rather rigid and very erect petioles 4 to 6 inches long: l 
apetalous flowers and their fruit on short almost filiform his- 
pidulous horizonal petioles (perhaps under moss or dead leaves, 
rather than hypogeous) their sepals very small, strongly ciliate, 
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the auricles prominent, hispid, the calyx as a whole of hardly — 
half the length of the thick round-obovate or subglobose 
mottled capsule. 
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I have this only from Prince Edward Island, whence it iv 
sent by Mr. L. W. Watson. At petaliferous flowering it is know? 
by its exceedingly broad and obtuse sepals and broad petals. In 
the later stages there is a habital difference, as above indicated, 
between the two, as well as a difference in the characters of the 
peduncles and flowers. 
Although in the original account of V. subviscosa Mr. Watson's 
P. E. I. specimens are first mentioned, the name sudviscosa 18 — 
derived from Dr. Fletcher’s plants from Quebec; this corre- — 
spondent remarking, in a letter, that the plants in process of 
drying seem to be somewhat glutinous. It is oT then, | 
