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tinguish it from its northern relative. Specimens belonging 
to this species more or less widely distributed in herbaria are: 
Vireinta: Mt. Crawford, AHe/ler, no. 1203. 
Nortu Carouixa: Blowing Rock, Heller, no. 168 (1890), 
and August 24, 1893; Smal/, August, 1891. 
TENNESSEE: Buffalo Rock, Wolf Creek, September, 1894, 
Hi. Allen (Ex. Herb. A. Ruth). 
Georcia: Yonah Mountain, September 4, 1894, Smeal. 
DonpDIA CONFERTA. 
Perennial, shrubby. Stems erect or ascending, 4-10 dm. 
long; branches prostrate or spreading, forming dense tufts, 
glabrous: leaves numerous, glabrous; blades fleshy, oblong, 
mostly less than 1 cm. long, obtuse: flowers solitary or clus- 
tered in the axils of the rather approximate leaves, especially 
numerous on the branchlets: calyx-segments obtuse: seeds 
about i mm. broad. 
Along the coast of Texas. Spring and summer. 
Only one shrubby Dozda has hitherto been known to 
occur in Texas, this being Dondia suffruticosa, a native of 
the western part of the State. Inthe summer of 1894 Mr. 
Heller collected specimens of another shrubby species, ap- 
parently different from anything heretofore described. The 
two Texan species may be separated by the characters con- 
trasted in the following key: 
Foliage copiously pubescent ; leaf-blades and as Ga ua acute. 
. D. suffruticosa. 
Foliage glabrous ; leaf-blades and calyx-segments obtuse. 2. D. conferta. 
The type has been distributed by Mr. Heller in his 
Plants of Southern Texas, no. 1827. 
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AQUILEGIA COCCINEA. 
Perennial, rather stout, light green. Stems solitary or 
tufted, 3-8 dm. tall, erect or ascending, usually branching 
above, commonly aed pubescent about the nodes ; leaves 
larger than those of A. Canadensis, otherwise quite similar ; 3 
leaflets with 3 main lobes or divisions, eee beneath ; seg- 
ments incised or lobed, suborbicular cuneate in outline : 
pedicels minutely ee sepals ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute or short-acuminate, 17-21 mm. long, scarlet: co- 
