to its development. An unsuccessful search for Razoumofskya 

 was made at other places in Newfoundland. 



The station at the Bay of Islands is very near the 49th parallel 

 of latitude. As Rarjoiimofskya pusilla is one of the outlying 

 representatives of a chiefly southern and tropical family, its occur- 

 rence so far north seems worthy of record. 



Department of Botany, University of Chicago. 



SHORTER NOTES 



A Georgia Rhododendron. — For nearly three quarters of 

 a century a single specimen of a RJiododendron related to the 

 Alleghenian R. punctatum has been preserved in the Columbia 

 University herbarium. This specimen was collected in middle 

 Georgia by Dr. Boy kin, and nothing similar to it came to my 

 notice until Mr. A. Cuthbert sent me specimens which he col- 

 lected in the spring of 1901, from shrubs growing along the 

 Savannah River, near Augusta, Georgia. 



The most conspicuous external character of this species is the 

 relatively long corolla-tube which in this case is longer than the 

 lobes. In the case of R. punctatum the lobes of the corolla are 

 longer than the tube. A striking feature of the plant is the 

 corolla-limb with its broad crisped lobes, the upper lobe being 

 copiously yellow-blotched. The corolla-lobes of R. punctatum 

 are of an ovate type- and perfectly flat along the edges. I shall 

 call this species after Mr. Cuthbert and characterize it as follows : 



Rhododendron Cuthbertii 



A slender straggling shrub 2—3.5 m - tail, with resinous-scurfy 

 foliage. Leaves mostly at the ends of the branches ; blades leathery, 

 elliptic, 3—13 cm. long, acute at both ends, or acuminate at the apex, 

 more or less revolute, somewhat reticulated above, scurfy beneath ; 

 petioles 1 — 1.5 cm. long, more scurfy than the blades, rather stout : 

 flower-clusters quite dense : pedicels 1 — 1.5 cm. long, clothed with 

 pale scales : sepals ovate, 2 mm. long : corolla mainly of a clear 

 rose tint with some yellow near the base ; tube funnelform, rather 

 abruptly expanded near the middle, fully 1.5 cm. long; limb 

 3-3.5 cm. broad, the lobes suborbicular or orbicular-reniform, 

 truncate or subcordate at the base, crisped, the upper one copi- 

 ously blotched: capsule 8-12 mm. long. 



