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The salient characters separating Sal'al Deeringiana from S. 

 minor are the erect habit, the large trunk, the long midrib of the 

 leaf, the broader petals and anthers, and the larger depressed 

 drupe. Leaf-specimens were collected by the writer on April 

 loth, 1925. Flowering specimens (July 5, 1925) and fruiting 

 specimens (November, 1925) were secured for us by Professor 

 R. S. Cocks. The type specimens are in the herbarium of The 

 New York Botanical Garden. 

 "^New York Botanical Garden, 

 New York 



A NEW BELLFLOWER FROM FLORIDA 



John K. Small 



An endemic bellflower — Campanula floridana — has been known 

 from Florida for many years, although it was not formally named 

 and published until 1878. The earliest specimens were collected 

 during the Seminole Wars by Dr. Leavenworth an army Surgeon 

 who records that they were "Found in a savannah not far from 

 the scene of Dade's Massacre." This is a delicate plant with 

 bright-blue starry flowers. Less than two years ago a second 

 endemic species was discovered in the same part of Florida. It 

 grows on the northern slopes of Chinsegut Hill about five miles 

 north of Brooksville. This hill is said to be the highest point 

 in Florida — reported as 366 feet altitude — and a historic spot, 

 having been close to De Soto's trail in his northward march 

 through the Florida peninsula. This bellflower may be known as: 



y Campanula Robinsiae Small, sp. nov. Annual with a slender 

 tap-root and delicate roots: stem 1-15 cm. tall, very slender, 

 simple or branched at the base and above, angled: leaves alter- 

 nate; blades various, those on the lower part of the plant ovate 

 to elliptic-ovate, 6-12 mm. long, those on the upper parts of the 

 stem elliptic to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, all with few 

 remote gland-like teeth, or those of the upper ones entire: flowers 

 on slender ascending or spreading axillary and terminal pedicels 

 2-6 mm. long: hypanthium hemispheric at anthesis, subglobose 

 in fruit, glabrous: sepals lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate, about 

 1.5 mm. long, acute, glabrous: corolla rotate-campanulate, pale- 

 blue, 7-8 mm. wide: lobes elliptic-ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 longer than the tube, obtuse or acutish, faintly veined: stamens 

 shorter than the corolla; filaments subulate-filiform; anthers 



