Septcinbei 30, 1910 75 



Rubus odoratus, and other northern species which are character- 

 istic of these cold moist northern slopes. 



Gentiana Saponaria var. latidens var. now 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate: the calyx lobes 

 broadly spatulate, acute, shorter than the calyx tube, otherwise 

 resembling the typical species. 



This rather curious variety of the soapwort gentian is re- 

 markable for the broad leaves and the broad and short calyx 

 lobes. Collected by Dr. Gray at Balsam, Jackson county, in 

 1843 (Gray Herbarium). I would indicate as the type of this 

 variety my number 4030 in the Gray Herbarium, collected on 

 wet mossy rocks near the Pink Bed Valley, Transylvania county, 

 September 10, 1908. Growing with Drosera rotundifolia, Li»i* 

 odorum tuberosum, Solidago monticola, etc. 

 Biltmore. North Carolina. 



GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH ANULOCAUUS 

 LEIOSOLENUS 



By P. Beveridge Kennedy 



( Willi cover illustration i 



One is always delighted when in their own territory to come 

 across a distinctive plant unlike anything they have seen before. 

 This was the case with the writer when riding in a buggy, his 

 attention was called, at a distance of some fifty feet, to the stran- 

 ger that is used as the cover illustration for this issue. 



That the plant was unlike anything seen by me either in 

 the herbarium at the University or on any of my field trips, 

 seemed a certainty. Being on other business, and not prepared 

 for the collecting of botanical specimens, the best that could be 

 done was to secure a number of typical scraps of leaf, flower, 

 fruit and stem. Fortunately, one of the party had a small, cheap 

 camera with him, which enabled me to take a picture. We 

 were at the time on a high, dry mesa, strongly impregnated 



