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though the petals of the green plant remain fresh long after 

 those of the purple forms have withered and dried. 



Many thanks are due Dr. O. E. Jennings for his generous help 

 in determining the relationship of this trillium and for assistance 

 with the detailed description which follows. 



Corm 1-1.5 cm. diam., by 4-5 cm. long, strongly recurved. 

 Stems about 2 dm. high, purplish-red below, smooth, about 4 

 mm. in diam. at apex. Leaves 3, about 5 cm. wide by 7 cm. 

 long, oval to elliptic, rarely slightly ovate; at base somewhat 

 rounded, at apex shortly and widely acute; 5-nerved, perfectly 

 glabrous, wholly sessile. Flowers sessile. Sepals lanceolate, 

 tapering rather evenly from a widely rounded base, smooth, 

 about 9-10 mm. wide and 2.5 cm. long, rather bluntly acute. 

 Petals yellowish-green with green veins, twisted-erect, paler 

 yellow-green inside, 10-13 mm. wide, 25-34 nim. long, lance- 

 oblong, narrowed to a base 3-4 mm. wide, bluntly acute at apex. 

 Stamens with greenish or purplish-green filaments about 3-4 mm. 

 long; anthers about 11-13 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, the pollen- 

 sacs narrow and yellow, the connective wide, foliose, and veiny, 

 the tip prolonged beyond pollen-sacs 2-4 mm. and flattish and 

 green to contracted and purplish. Ovary in flower strongly 

 wing-angled (6 wings), green, about 5 + 5 mm. Stigmas thick, 

 fleshy, 8-1 1 mm. long, triangular in cross-section, the inner 

 face wrinkled, greenish, the outer surfaces purplish, smooth. 

 Flowers have a peculiar, somewhat disagreeable, oily odor. All 

 parts of the plant are strictly glabrous. 



Bethany College, 

 Bethany, W. Va. 



NEW SPECIES FROM THE BLUE RIDGE 



P. A. Rydberg 



Hypericum Mitchellianum Rydb. sp. nov. A perennial with 

 a woody cespitose caudex or rootstock; stems simple up to the 

 inflorescence, 3-6 dm. high, glabrous, tinged with brown; leaves 

 sessile or slightly clasping, elliptic, 3-4 cm. long, rounded or 

 obtuse at the apex, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, 

 glabrous, glandular punctate beneath, especially along the mar- 

 gins; inflorescence cymose, the flowers very short-pediceled ; 

 calyx 5 mm. long, with black gland-streaks and rarely with 



