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Linnaea Americana Forbes, of boreal America, extending south 

 to New Jersey and Colorado. 



Linnaea longiflora (Torr.) Howell {L. borealis var. longiflora 

 Torr.), of western America and eastern Asia. 



There seems to be still a fourth undescribed species, judging 

 from rather fragmentary specimens from Kamchatka and neigh- 

 boring islands. These have very small flowers and leaves, 

 scarcely larger than those of the common cranberry. 



SHORTER NOTES 



A Kentucky Cornel. — Several months since, Miss Sadie F. 

 Price sent me flowering specimens of a Cornus, which she had found 

 growing on river banks near Bowling Green. Later, at my re- 

 quest, she furnished me with fruiting specimens from the same 

 locality. This material is, apparently, not referable to any spe- 

 cies thus far described, and may hereafter be known as : 



Cornus Priceae. — A branching shrub 1-2.5 m - ta U> with red 

 and finely pubescent twigs. Leaves numerous ; blades elliptic to 

 ovate- elliptic or ovate, 5—12 cm. long, rather leathery, usually 

 acuminate, deep green and roughish-pubescent above, pale and 

 more copiously, but rather softly pubescent and prominently 

 veined beneath ; petioles 1—2 cm. long, pubescent like the twigs : 

 corymbs 2—3 cm. broad during anthesis, 4—6 cm. broad at ma- 

 turity : peduncles and pedicels closely and harshly pubescent : 

 sepals triangular : corolla white, about 7 mm. broad : petals 4, 

 oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate : filaments slightly shorter 

 than the petals : drupes about 3 mm. in diameter, subglobose, 

 white ; stone about 2 mm. in diameter, scarcely longer than broad, 

 faintly pitted. 



On bluffs of the Barren River, near Bowling Green, Kentucky. 

 The species flowers late in the spring and matures its fruit about 

 the middle of the summer. The fruiting specimens I have were 

 collected on July 27th. The specimens on which the species is 

 founded are preserved in the herbarium of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden. 



Cornus Priceae is related to Cornus asperifolia and C. micro- 

 carpa. Its leaves somewhat resemble those of the former spe- 



