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MUHLENBERGIA 



NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF PLANTS FROM 

 WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 



By Homer Doluver House 



During the past three seasons, the writer has had the priv- 

 ilege of studying close at hand the wonderfully diverse flora of 

 the mountains of western north Carolina. The collections made, 

 amounting to only 500 numbers, were made not with any idea 

 of bringing together a representative herbarium of the region 

 which was so admirably carried out by the Biltmore Herbarium 

 a few years ago, but to collect such plants as appeared to be 

 rare, to represent critical genera, or to record new localities in 

 their distribution. 



The specimens of grasses and sedges referred to authorities 

 in these groups have not resulted in the discovery of any species 

 new to the region, although such interesting species as Carex 

 aestivalis M. A. Curtis, C. mirabilis Dewey, and Rhynchospora 

 cymosa Ell. are to be noted. 



Among the species new or otherwise interesting are to be 

 noted the following: 



V' Trillium Vaseyi forma album forma nova. 



Petals pure while, only the pistil and anthers retaining 

 their normal dark purple color. 



Pigeon Gap, Haywood county, no. 4146, May 9, 1909. 



Typical Trillium Vaseyi Harbison, is one of the common- 

 est and most characteristic herbaceous plants of damp cool situ- 

 ations between 2500 and 4000 feet elevation. 



Hki.ONIAS HULL ATA L. 



New to North Carolina. Common in sphagnum swamps 



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