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to the one upon which the species was founded. As qualified in the 
Synoptical Flora, S. uliginosa finds its southern limits in the mountains 
of Pennsylvania, but specimens that match northern material passing 
under this name were collected September 15, 1897, in the mountains 
of Macon county, North Carolina, at an elevation of about 1500". In 
this situation the plants were found close to the sides of the water- 
ways that under ordinary conditions are kept moist by the liberal and 
usually evenly distributed precipitations. I am indebted to Dr. Small, 
of Columbia University, for much help and information regarding 
this material. 
CRATA&GUS TOMENTOSA Chapmani, nom. nov.— Crategus tomentosa 
microcarpa Chapm. Flora, ed. 3. 139. 1897. Not C. microcarpa 
Lindl.— So far I have not seen the typical C. somentosa in the south, 
and I agree with Dr. Chapman in recognizing the form with very 
small fruit as a well marked variety. Near Biltmore, N: Cat. tomes 
tosa Chapmani forms a small tree 4-6" high, growing usually in _ 
soil and attaining a trunk diameter of 1°" or less. The branches are 
gray, and armed with slender spines: leaves 5-12™ long (occasionally 
larger), broadly ovate, prominently veined, sharply serrate and incisely 
lobed, and from sparingly to densely pubescent beneath: corymbs 
many-flowered, leafy, bearing glandular, caducous bracts, and covered 
when young with fine, pale tomentum, which finally disappears : — 
small, 1.5°" wide, ill-scented: calyx pubescent, the divisions sass 
late, serrate, acute: fruit sub-globose, 5—7"™ in diameter at maturity, 
bright red, long persistent. : 
Originally discovered on the banks of Silver creek, Floyd FOUN y: 
Georgia, by Dr. Chapman, whose name | have used in ote an . 
nomial. The distribution is probably confined to the region of t 
southern Allegheny mountains. 
806.— On 
CaREX OLIGOcARPA Schk. Riedg. Nachtr. 58. f- 779 ? ne 
r at Bilt 
May 26, 1896, in sandy soil bordering the Swannanoa Tive from 
more, N. C., material that matches specimens of C. oligocarpa uf 
Vermont and Delaware was found in frequent patches. ' er of 
admitted the species to the range of his work on the anne its 
M. A. Curtis, but I cannot at this time find any further notice ° 
distribution in the south. 
*Syn. Flora 17: 151. 1884. 
Flora S. U.S. ed. 2. suppl. 661. 1889. 
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