3t 



Luray, and in every case growing with Euphorbia Corollata. 



Oxalis recurva was in bloom all through the woods, and we 



found Hcuche^'a pubescens and the pods of Corydalis mi- 



► " crantha on the rocks, and collected some splendid specimens 



m of the high-climbing Smt'Iax Pseudo-China. 



In a swampy meadow we found Veronica Anagallis'^ grow- 

 ing with Nastiirtiu7n officinale^ and all over the dry fields were 

 patches of the pretty, purple Verbena angnstifolia and Del- 

 phinium Consolida^ the latter plant in three colors, dark 

 blue, pink and white. 



In a ditch on the edge of the town Raminczdus sceleratus f 

 grew abundantly. 



Early the next morning we left for Eggleston's in the 

 beautiful New River Valley, and from there drove to Moun- 

 tain Lake. 



^ middle, so as to be somewhat fiddle-shaped, the lowest and those of the base 



^ contracted into long, margined petioles ; flowers purplish or nearly white, the 



I corolla wide open, not bearded in the throat or very' slightly so, lo"-l2" 



long ; sterile, filament slightly bearded for about one-third of its length ; pod 

 ovoid, glabrous, slightly exceeding the calyx. 



A plant of very different appearance from P, l<£vigatiis or P, Digitalis, 

 marked especially by its canescent, fiddle-shaped lower leaves. We have it 

 also from Asheville, N. C, collected by Mr. Hogg in iSS6, who also found 

 what I suppose to be P. liBvigatus there, and called my attention to the differ- 

 ence between them. — N. L. B. 



* Veronica Anagallis, Our specimens are of the typical plant exactly 

 matching European. The species has not hitherto been reported from so far 

 south. The var. latifolia, Britt. (Bulletin, xn., 49), is very different from 

 this in habit and aspect, and is now known from numerous localities in New 

 Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, where the type has not yet been discovered, 

 although occurring in central Pennsylvania and further west. — N. L. B. 



"}* Ranunculus sceleratus^ L. Very abundant in a roadside ditch, and 

 evidently introduced. There are two forms of this species, if indeed they do 

 not represent something more than forms. The truly native North American 

 plant, so abundant along the edges of salt marshes and in saline situations in 

 the interior, has thick, oblong heads of akenes, seldom more than two or three 

 times as broad as long, and occurs also in northeastern Asia. The plants 

 from Roanoke and some European specimens have narrow, linear heads, 

 often four or five times as long as broad, and there appears to be a slight 

 difference in the form of the akenes, while the plants with the broader heads 

 have larger flowers. I have not enough material at present to indicate if they 

 are specifically or variatally distinct. — N. L. B, 



