(281 ) ; 
rollas mainly scarlet: spurs 3-3.3 cm. long, rather abruptly 
narrowed below the middle, the lamina yellow: styles not 
twice as long as the ovary: follicles straight, 2 cm. long, 
tipped by the erect style which is much shorter than the body. 
On cliffs and in rocky woods, western Virginia to Missouri 
and Nebraska, south to Alabama. Spring. 
The species just described is, in many respects, between 
Aquilegia Canadensis and the western A. formosa. As far 
as I can learn it has never been described, but has been re- 
ferred to Aguclegia Canadensis in the east, and to both A. 
Canadensis and A. formosa in the western parts of its range. 
The habit of Aguzlegia coccinea resembles that of its west- 
ern relative, but the structure of the calyx and corollais more 
nearly like that of the eastern plant. Both of these organs 
are conspicuously larger than those of A. Canadensis: the 
sepals are over fifteen millimeters long, are ovate-lanceolate 
and acute or acuminate as compared with the small broadly 
ovate and relatively biunt sepals of the common eastern spe- 
cies; the spurs, too, are much stouter and abruptly narrowed 
near the apex instead of gradually narrowed from near the 
base. 
The following specimens belong here: 
Vireinta: Banks of the Roanoke River, May 29, 1890, 
A. Brown; Peaks of Otter, June 7, 1890, V. L. Britton; 
Slopes of White Top Mountain, May 28, 1892, &. G. Brit- 
ton and A. MZ. Vail. 
Kentucky: 1840, C. W. Short. 
TenneEssEE: Nashville, June, 1894, &. P. Bicknell; Bluffs 
of the Tennessee River, Knoxville, May, 1897, A. Auth, no. 
1726. 
Missouri: St. Louis, May and June, 1843, VV. Rrehl, no. 
389; on rocks, Jackson county, May 17, 1893, B. F. Bush, 
no. 3; also Courtney, May 5, 1895, no. 8. 
NEBRASKA: Peru, July, 1889, A. J. Webber. 
HyrERICUM GLOMERATUM. 
A branching shrub varying from 3-10 dm. in height, with 
somewhat scaly bark. Foliage glabrous: leaves rather 
