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snew,one is raised to specific standing, two suppressed species are 
mstored, and the heretofore recorded range of others greatly extended. 
PHILADELPHUS LATIFOLIUS Schrad. DC. Prodr. 3: 206. 1828.—An 
ignored and much confused species closely related to the European ?. 
wroarius\.. Abundant material in fruit collected on the rocky banks 
oi the Cumberland river near Nashville, Tennessee, August 17, 1897, 
% clearly illustrates the validity of the species that I concur with 
Engler® in his statements regarding it, especially as to its frequent 
ceurrence in cultivation and the confusion of American botanists. 
However, I know no other habitat than middle Tennessee. Torrey and 
Gray referred all of Schrader’s species published in the Prodromus” 
0 P. grandiflorus Willd., or to forms of the same, a position not 
vholly sustained by recent writers, and their variety florébundus is truly 
the species at issue. 
: Philadelphus latifolius differs from P. grandifiorus in bearing flowers 
M naked racemes (sometimes a lower pair axillary) 5-9 but mostly 7- 
ered, by the much smaller capsules ; narrower, more pubescent 
aalyx lobes; the 5-nerved leaves, which on young shoots are large 
0g broadly ovate; and by the light colored bark. I have seen a 
lowering specimen of this fine species in the Philadelphus material of 
the National Museum, collected by Dr. Gattinger in 1888 from the 
same locality and distributed by A. H. Curtiss as ?. hirsutus Nutt., 
— ltis associated with fruit of the last named species. it is very 
a ve the limestone bluffs of the Cumberland river in me 
og a and its distribution will doubtless be found to cover a muc 
when the species is better known. 
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‘ Arpaecxta PINNATILOBA (Torrey & Gray). 
‘Wiloba pinnatiloba Torr. & Gray, Fl. 2:309. 1841-1843. 
as iore known only from the state of Florida, where it was col- 
_- 4nd distributed by Dr. Chapman. On August 2, 1897, quan- 
: ag same distinct plants were found on the dry slopes of 
2 the . Mountain, Buncombe county, North Carolina, that eats 
ai € se piletial as represented by the Chapman specimens @ 
Se according to Dr. Small, similar material at Columbia 
p fom a study of the material, which embraces 4 large 
fRE 
"Die nati: 
_, Saas Pflanzenfamilien III. 2a: 71. 1891. 
; Sor. P Pam. 1595. 1838-1840. 
odr. 3: 205-206. 1828. 
