436 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ DECEMBER 
In distinguishing his A. megacephalon from #/. Gronovit Mr. Nash 
emphasizes as a specific character of the former its early flowering season, 
March to May. As represented in the Gray Herbarium, the Florida speci- 
mens have been collected as early; but the Pennsylvanian specimens of /. 
Marianum var. spathulatum, which seem identical with the Florida plant, — 
were collected early in July, and in the vicinity of Boston the typical /. 
Marianum often flowers by the middle of June. Furthermore, the Gray 
Herbarium sheet of Simpson’s no. 575 (distributed as HY. Gronovi?) from Fort 
Myers, Fla., May 3, 1892, contains two plants, one of them A. Marianum 
var. spathulatum, the other somewhat intermediate between that and typical 
H. Marianum, but much nearer the latter. It would therefore seem that, 
though the var. sfathulatum is a spring or early summer form, it is not 
entirely unique in its flowering season. The following Florida specimens of 
H. Marianum var. spathulatum have been examined: Fort Myers (J. H.- 
Simpson, no. 575 in part), Lake City (F. C. Straub, no. 37), Port Orange (F. 
Straub, no. 86), Eau Gallie (A. H. Curtiss, no. 5818). 
M. L. FERNALD, Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. 
VIBURNUM DEMETRIONIS. 
SINcE publishing Viburnum Demetrionis in the BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
(22: 166-7. 1896) we have secured ripe fruit from Mr. C. H. Demetrio, 
collected by his friend, Rev. E. Heck, at the type locality in central 
Missouri, August 30, 1896. This material furnishes the following sup- 
plementary characters : 
Fruit somewhat fleshy, oblong in outline, rounded at the ends, 
5 to 6 lines long, 3 lines broad, slightly compressed, shining, black ; 
putamen oblong, strongly compressed, somewhat thicker and slightly 
pointed at one end ; one surface with a median and two shallow intra- 
marginal grooves, the other with two (often indistinct) intra- -marginal 
grooves; seeds thin, slightly concavo-convex.—_W. DEANE and B. L. 
Rosinson, Cambridge, Mass. 
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