1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 83 
- H. Aseyron L. Usually branching above, 2 to 5 feet 
high: leaves ovate-lanceolate, clasping, mostly acute, 2 to 5 inches 
long, about an inch wide, pellucid-punctate with elongated dots: 
flowers an inch or two in diameter, solitary at the ends of branches 
and in terminal cymes: sepals lanceolate to ovate, acute, 4 to 6 
lines long: capsule ovoid-conical, 9 lines long; seeds terete, with 
slightly winged rhaphe.—Spec. 2 ed. 1102; Maxim. Pl. Nov. 
Asiat. iv. 162. 
H, pyramidatum Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 103; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 158; Gray, 
Manual, 84, 
H. aseyroides Willd. Spec. iii. 1443; Chois. in DC. Prodr. i. 545, Hook. Fl. 
Bor,-Am. i, 109. 
H. macrocarpum Michx. FI, ii. 82. 
From Canada to Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and E. Pennsylva- 
nia, westward to N. Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota, the Winnipeg valley, 
and probably farther northwest. Also throughout northeastern Asia, and in 
r plant can not be distinguished in any way from the Asiatic, and was 
included with it in the original Linnean description (“ Habitat in Sibiria, Can- 
ada, Pyrenzis.”) Maximowicz (I. c.) has called attention to the identity of the 
North American and Asiatic forms, and a careful comparison of specimens has 
fully confirmed his opinion. 
_ **Styles united into a long, sharp beak, becoming distinct; stigmas 
minute, not capitate: more or less shrubby plants. 
TStyles 5: capsule 5-celled : bushy shrubs with crowded leaves. 
Rocky shores, Canada, Niagara Falls, and about the Great Lakes. 
tT Styles 3: capsule completely 3-celled: branching shrubs. 
4. H. Buckleyi M. A. Curtiss. Low (half to a foot), widely 
branching from the base: leaves oblong, obtuse, narrowed at base, 
half to an inch long. 2 to 4 lines wide, paler beneath and more 
or less black dotted: flowers solitary and terminal, on long 
peduncles, sometimes in threes, about an inch in diameter : sepals 
obovate, not half as long as the petals: capsule conical, 4 to 5 
