NOTES ON ALABAMA PLANTS £17 
CRYPTOPHILA PUDICA spec. nov. 
(Herb. St. Bernard College no. 1071.) 
Planta perennis glabra. Radices usque ad 1 mm. crassae 
communiter coopertae densa micorhiza. Scapus erectus 
4.5-10 em. altus; squamulae sessiles, remotae, approximatae 
vel imbircatae, ovatae, ovato-oblongae, lineares-oblongae vel 
inferiores triangulariter ovatae, obtusae vel acutae. Inflores- 
centia quasi spica vel capitulum; flores 1-16; bracteae conspic- 
uae orbiculato-acuminatae vel ovato-acuminatae; bracteolae 
oblanceolatae; pediculi 2-10 mm. longi. Sepala‘’ oblonga, ob- 
tusa vel acuta, interiora fornicata, 7-13 mm. longa. Corolla 
7-11 mm. longa, campanulata, cylindrico-campanulata vel cyl- 
indrica, in basi gibbose 5-saccata; lobi ovati, obtusi vel acuti. 
‘Discus 5-fides; lobi reflexi et emarginati. Filamenta filiforma ; 
connectiva conspicua, rubicundula vel purpurea; sacci albi- 
cantes post ea lutei. Germen parum 5-lobatum in inferiore 
parte 10-lobatum. Stylus brevis crassus. Stigma subglobo- 
sum vel hemisphaericum intus 5-fidum secundum apicalem 
infundibuliformem aperturam.—Flores raro tetramerosi, hex- 
amerosi, heptamerosi .vel octomerosi—Bacca subglobosa 0.7 
vix 1 em. in diametrum. Semen circiter 0-5 mm. longum, 
test firma-flexuose sulceatum vel parum reticulatum. Herba 
‘scaposa; scapus squamulosus. Planta non parasitica.—In sil- 
vis xerophilis Comitatus Cullman, Alabama. 
There has also been discovered a single tuft of tives scapes, 
which, were from 15 to 20 cm. high. Scapes of intermediate 
size between this extreme form and the typical one have 
never been observed. It may thus be distinguished from the 
type as: 
CRYPTOPHILA PUDICA forma MAXIMA f. nov. 
(Herb. St. Bernard College no. 1452.) 
On the other hand, the colony discovered in March 1910, 
already referred to in this paper, represented an extreme 
dwarf form. Under observation for some years, it showed 
no deviation during any of these seasons. It may, therefore, 
be designated as: Bee eats 
