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American specimens are in nowise different from the Euro- 
pean ones; the seeds are obovate, strongly apiculate, with a 
very distinct raphe, and are irregularly and rather indistinctly 
reticulated. 
0. MITHI, n. sp.: rhizomate? vaginis? foliis? caulibus 
bipedalibus teretibus farctis siccis striulatis; panicule lax 
subsimplicis pauciflore spatha longissima ; sepalis equilongis, 
exterioribus a seuiane interioribus obtusis ; staminibus 6; cap- 
laris Mepaiewa tenuissimis fragilibus; seminibus magnis 
obovato-oblongis obtusis vix apiculatis irregulariter reticu- 
atis. 
Pennsylvania, in a sphagnous swamp on Broad Mountain 
near Pottsville, Schuylkill vemingt where Mr. SS LE. 
mith, of Philad thi 
is J. 
mithit, Kunth, is the English a sea — may _ in 
June, , with nearly ripe — ee e expects to 
obtain more complete specime the ata seas x8 as it 
grows in a very accessible, but, hus re little explored part of 
Pennsylvania. We will then whether I am correct in 
Pennsylvania, and, so far as I know, the plant we take to be 
setacéus has not lately been found so far north. The figure 
of Rostkovius is too poor to decide the question, but his 
description is full ceri to point to our setaceus; the “three- 
leaved calyx”—#. , the three bracts under the flower b 
which he distinguishes his species from J. filiformis—are 
found in most flowers of both J. Smithit and J. setaceus, oi 
a ine | 
“ gemaniat ed.—The small paige. _ form of the sepals, 
exsert, angular capsule, an more elongated and 
differently marked seeds peer ‘t abundantly from the 
ns . S9ETACEUS, Rostk. Mon. June. 13,t.1, f. 2, is a reg- 
ularly leat: “bearing species, though neither its author nor 
