448 ' BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE 
CoREOPSIS LONGIFOLIA Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 22: 47. 1895. 
— Material that closely matches specimens of this species gathered 
near Jacksonville, Florida, has been collected in Bladen county, North 
Carolina, June 9, 1896. The plants from North Carolina are plainly 
of perennial duration and continue to blossom from lateral shoots and 
possibly by seedlings until autumn. 
Y Coreopsis helianthoides, n. sp.—An herb 5-12°" high from a per- 
ennial base, growing in the moist, sandy pine barrens of west Florida: 
stout furrowed stems glabrous and terete, very leafy to near the 
_ middle, but almost naked at the divergently-branched summit: radical 
and lowest cauline leaves 5—12™ long, 2—6™ broad, ovate to ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, scarious-edged, contracted at the base into long 
margined petioles and sparingly and inconspicuously hirsute on both 
surfaces with many-jointed weak hairs ; upper cauline few and remote, 
linear-lanceolate, much reduced in size and passing into mere bracts; 
petioles dilated and clasping at the insertion by a short sheath: inter- 
nodes from base to near the middle very short, 1-5™ long: heads 3-18 
in number, many-flowered, 3-4™ wide including the rays, 1-1.5™ high: 
outer involucral scales lanceolate, 5-9" long, 2-4"" wide; the inner 
ovate, 8-12™ long, 4-7" wide, many-nerved; floral scales linear, 
5-7"" long, acute: disk flowers dark purple; rays 8, orange-yellow, 
3-cleft, the middle segment large and notched at the obtuse apex: 
achenes oblong, bordered by strong pectinate wings and surmounted 
by two short hispid awns. 
C. helianthoides in general aspect is strikingly like Helianthus 
Dowellianus Curtis, and is related to C. gladiata Walt., from which 
species it differs in its smaller and more numerous heads, very leafy 
stem, remarkably short internodes, greater length of the outer involu- 
cral bracts, larger and acute leaves and much stouter habit. 
The type specimens were gathered at Aspalaga, Florida, October, 
1897, by Dr. A. W. Chapman, who recognized the form as probably 
new to science. 
GERANIUM MOLLE L. Sp. Pl. 682. 1753.—This interesting fugitive 
is thoroughly established in waste grounds at Biltmore, N. C., forming 
on the surface of the soil mats that are very conspicuous and in fertile 
situations sufficiently large to cover an area 5°" square. The first 
seeds ripen in this locality in May, and under favorable conditions 4 
second crop of plants is produced which mature seeds in autumn. 
